Analysis Of Samuel P. Jackson's Chapter On Chicano/Chicana Art

After reading Jackson’s chapter on Chicano/Chicana Art, he points out a few things about the assimilationist issues they faced in the U.S. During the 1840s, U.S. politicians used the concept of Manifest Destiny to renew a sense of national unity and to create a spiritual mission to spread American democracy. Jackson also gathers information from a recent book entitled Who are we? The Challenges to America’s National Identity by Samuel P. Huntington (2009) and repeats, “that to be an American and to ensure America’s future “existence,” Hispanic culture must be assimilated and made to embrace Anglo-Protestant culture-not necessarily white in color but white in mindset and values” (p. 7). Anyhow, there were much more organizations that spread

Although, this was merely an idea and wasn’t by definition. ‘Chicano’ then was described for the Mexican American experience and as historian Ignacio Garcia said, ‘Chicano’ is a Mexican American who understood his/her indigenous roots and avoided change.

As a political identity, ‘Chicano’ came to mean more than simply a race-based identity and was greatly supported by many influences. It’s difficult to say who were only described as ‘Chicano’ because the community and cultural production was connected with the Mexican American experience and there were many different race and culture mixes. Jackson excerpts film scholar Rosa Linda Fregoso, on her argument defining that any form of Chicano production is to incorporate racial tendencies into ideologies that fight racism instead of the ideas that relate to the Chicano Movement and surpass the negative ideas that perpetrate social inequality and injustice. Besides this, organizations like The Mexican American Movement and “The Mexican Voice” are important for their efforts in creating a more appropriate representation of the experiences as a Mexican origin but living in the U.S. Consequently, the identity ‘Mexican American’ emerged during this period among students and community activists to gain full representation in society without having to