Utilizing lectures, the assigned readings, films, and reflections please respond to the following question in a 4-6 page double spaced essay. Your essay will be evaluated on the basis of your ability to make statements, substantiate those statements with evidence and other forms of logic, and provide analysis of the issues addressed in the question.
- Utilizing examples from the readings contained in the book From Coveralls to Zoot Suits, and the material posted on the modules, and lectures, write an essay in which you identify and analyze the different components of the Chicana/o Movement (land, labor, political representation, educational reform, protests against the draft, and cultural pride).
- Identify how the Chicana/o Movement was a result of activism by a new generation of Mexican American activists. Include in your analysis legal and organizational precedents leading up to WW II.
- Asses how the movement was fomented by the Mexican American experience during WW II both at home and abroad. Make sure to include in this portion of your analysis how Chicana women gained important spaces at home during the war effort.
- Evaluate how this new generation of activists openly repudiated the failed promises of assimilation and how this rejection to an assimilationist strategy resulted in a new sense of identity, one that attempted to reclaim a rich indigenous past to reclaim an almost obliterated history, culture, and language.
- Analyze how Chicano Artists developed a visual discourse, a discourse through which artists presented the history of the movement and at the same time expressed central issues to Chicano communities.
