Chicano Secondary Sources

My secondary sources include “Occupied America: A History of Chicanos” by Rodolfo F. Acuna. Occupied America is thought to be one of the most influential and highly-regarded voices of Chicano history and ethnic studies. This book illuminates the struggles and decisions that frame Chicano identity today. I will also be using the secondary source “Chicano!: The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement” by F. Arturo Rosales. This book is the most complete account of the laborious struggle by Mexican Americans to secure and protect their civil rights. My third secondary source is “Chicano Empowerment and Bilingual Education: Movimiento Politics in Crystal City, Texas by Armando L. Trujillo. This book looks at the relationship between the mission for Chicano

There has recently been an increase in Chicano scholarship in history. Yet that growth of scholarship has not been enough to inform everyone about the Chicano Movement. Chicano activist took the word Chicano was given to the people of Mexican ancestry who were born and raised in the United States. These were people who have positive cultural identity and who struggled for social justice. The book “Chicano!” By F. Arturo Rosales provides an overview of the Chicano history. It begins with the dismemberment of the Mexican Texas in 1836 by the Euro-Americans settlers and slave owners. This era is finished by the Mexican-American War and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848. These treaty guaranteed linguistic, political and land grant rights to the Mexican-American people. Yet the Mexican-Americans remained landless, poor and segregated for another hundred years. The Chicano Movement included unionized field workers and organizations. This book will help me give the background of the Chicano Movement. It will help lay grounds of the Movement and how it began. It will help set the timeline of events that led to the Chicano