#chicanahistory

[esafirmehyna]

From an event I put together in 2002 <3 #yakimavalleyxicanahistory #barrioarchivist #chicanahistory #xicanacholaartist https://www.instagram.com/p/CGTk8fhJw2w/?igshid=17hc0caoeuxsd

[sonsandbrothers]

On this day in 1968 the #ChicanoBlowouts began! These were protest against the unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools. In addition to education, the students addressed the Vietnam War and other demands of the Chicano Movement. We celebrate the history of youth leadership and organizing. These histories inspire us to #StayLoud! #ChicanoHistory #ChicanaHistory #LatinxHistory #MexicanAmericanHistory #YouthPower #AmericanHistory #StudentPower #HealthAndJustice4All

[lasrucas-blog]

Notebook #1 : Research on Chicano Youth /  Los Angeles / 1990′s

-Strong, yet thin, arched brows, fearlessly filled with a pencil of reddish brown tints, often framed the faces of Chicana youths. This was a feature that exhibited itself on the bodies of young Chicana exteriors. 

Within these communities, the formed friendships through parties, gatherings, and adversity. They found community within themselves and ignored the prejudices of society.

One Chicana recalls, “Also appearing was Rachel Ortiz, who once went by the moniker Flame in the party crew “Aztek Nation.” She shared a personal narrative about she and her single mother encountering another 14 year-old girl and her mother on her first and last day of an overcrowded Garfield High School, when both girls were being transferred out to a smaller school. The other girl asked innocuously if Ortiz “partied” to which Ortiz, without skipping a beat, replied “of course!”

- Theme: This Chicana youth movement, associated with their brow aesthetic, could possibly relate to the theme of immigration and citizenship. These young women were often immigrants or the children of immigrants. Because of their distinguishable exterior appearance, they often carried the stigma of invalid citizenship. Although many Mexican individuals had entered illegally during the 90′s, many gained citizenship legally soon after. However, these communities remained ostracized. 

- Trans/national: Many Chicana Youth in the 1990s were immigrants or children of immigrants. This particular generation of Chicana Youth was part of a dramatic Mexican Immigrant increase. And, “While the Mexican-born population in the United States has grown substantially since 1990, the undocumented population from Mexico has increased even faster. The 1990 Census included 4.3 million immigrants from Mexico. By 2000, this population more than doubled to 9.2 million with a further increase to 9.8 million in 2002. The undocumented population from Mexico increased from two million in 1990 to 4.8 million in 2000 and to 5.3 million in 2002. Thus, between 1990 and 2002, the undocumented population from Mexico increased by about 250,000 to 300,000 per year on average; evidence from successive CPSs suggests that the annual inflows increased dramatically around 1997 or 1998.”

- Significance of the Brows: The eyebrows featured on Chicana youth helped them identify with their community and their past culture in Mexico. These arched brows were also adopted by Mexican Immigrant women in the 1940s. 

http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/mexican-immigration-us-latest-estimates