Abstract
In this article, the writer analyzes two works for what they show about Chicana and Chicano literature. The writer discusses that while historical discourse is often inaccessible to marginalized communities, authors Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat create narrative space that includes the experiences of women and reveals their role in the preservation of national identity in their respective books "In the Time of the Butterflies" and "The Farming of Bones".

From the Paper
"These works carry a sense of history to the reader and incorporate the experiences of the characters and the experiences of the reader into that history. This effort relates to the idea of collective memory and how that idea is used in these works and in furthering the expression of Latino and Latina writers and characters."

Tags:chicana, chicano, literature

Abstract
The writer of this well-researched paper asks and answers the following questions: What obstacles have prevented Chicana women from realizing their sexuality and self-importance in the past? How do Chicana women view themselves as members of society in modern culture? What are the most critical factors contributing to a Chicana woman's sense of self and discovery? This in-depth paper delves into the unique hardships faced by Chicana women in recognizing their sense of self-worth and their sexuality. This paper examines the history of Chicana women who grew up in a culture that viewed them as subservient to men. The writer of this paper investigates the history of Chicana women through a comprehensive literature review that focuses on the role Chicana women have depicted in fictional literature, up until the present. This paper discusses the research conducted and analyzes the results which indicate that the role of Chicana women in society is in fact changing for the better. Women are starting to become more independent and realize themselves as independent, sexual and worthy human beings.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Research Questions
Limitations
Literature Review
Factors That Influence Sexuality and Self Worth
Female Sexuality and Self Development in Chicana Culture
Methodology
Conclusion
References

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"Much of the information available regarding Chicana culture is evident in the form of fictional stories, which depict the Chicana girl or woman as someone who is constantly searching to identify her role, her purpose in society and her sense of self. Other works of fiction address the Chicana as someone reflecting on her life experiences to learn from them. In times of old much of the literature available with regard to Chicana women suggested that women were subordinate, however more recent works suggest that Chicana women are starting to take a more aggressive and assertive role in society, and they are starting to recognize their sexuality and right to be sexual, alive, and important human beings."

Tags:culture, equality, gender, latin, male, female, conflict, sexuality

Abstract
This paper takes a look at the history of the Chicana, or Mexican-American woman, who has been treated as a person with no value, useless in the society and with deprive moral. This paper reviews the struggle of the Chicana for liberation and basic human rights to be free and to be treated equally.

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"Chicanas today are struggling for their liberation especially in the society and they are aware that they are being maltreated and it should be stop because they believe that every human being have the right to be free and to be treated equally. They are now involving themselves in fighting for freedom and for the rights of the women, they are confronting institutions that deprived them and maltreated them especially their employer, the church and the society. They raise issues about equality of men and women, depriving them from education, the belief of the Catholics, and the domination of men. "

Tags:maltreated, abuse, legal, organization, women's, rights, career, dirty, work

Abstract
This paper discusses how Chicana authors such as Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat seek to gain a voice and have it heard by expressing the meaning of their lives and celebrating the lives of others from the same social order that people otherwise marginalize and ignore. The paper looks at how these authors create a narrative space that includes gender issues and how they reveal their role in the preservation of national identity.

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"Louis Gerard Mendoza writes about the same topic in his book Historia, in which he offers "an extended analysis of the link between historical narratives and the representation of the historical in fictional narratives and poetry" (Mendoza 38). Mendoza finds that the nature of Chicana and Chicano narratives have changed in recent years in response to contemporary ideas and changing social circumstances, and these changes have also altered "the very substance of past narratives" (Mendoza 38) by expanding our knowledge by which we make decisions. Mendoza also points out that this literature has been largely unexamined, as might be expected for a literature featuring a minority population that itself is often marginalized and ignored. "

Tags:Julia, Alvarez, Edwidge, Danticat, women, gender, minority

Abstract
This paper provides a depiction of the diverse aspects of the Chicanas' experiences as women of color in the United States today, through an exploration of Mexican-American women's conditions and struggles in relation to issues of race, ethnicity, class and gender. The paper discusses acts of domination, such as the cultural representations of Chicanas in America (in media, history, fiction, etc.), the institutional practices that have traditionally been used to reinforce structures of inequalities, the political exploitation and the economic subjugation of women in the labor market.

Table of Contents:
Chapter One
Introduction
Statement of the Problem
Purpose of Study
Overview of Study
Chapter Summary
Chapter Two
Preliminary Literature Review
Cultural Representations of Chicanas in America
Institutional Practices that Reinforce Structures of Inequality
Chicanas' Acts of Resistance
Construction a Modern Chicana Identity
Chicana Feminism in a Global Context
Chapter Summary
Chapter Three
Proposed Methodology

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"History has shown time and again that when people have been oppressed long enough, they will rise up and slay their oppressors. Although the Chicana resistance did not reached this level in the past, it would seem that this population is at a distinct disadvantage in attempting to prosecute any meaningful reform because mainstream Americans simply do not want to hear about them, and if they do, the government has managed to place a sinister "spin" on these activities. According to Urrieta (2004), the Mexican American community has always been active seeking improvements in the educational conditions of their children, including the successful litigation of court cases against segregation a decade prior to Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. During this early period of Chicana movimientos in the 1960s, an estimated 10,000 Chicana/o students walked out of classes on March 3, 1968 in East Los Angeles to protest the unequal nature of their schooling (Urrieta, 2004)."

Tags:ethnicity, racism, immigrant, multicultural

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In this paper I will discuss the role the poem by Corky Gonzales and the film "I am Joaquin" had on the Chicano Movement. Within the paper these important questions will be asked: Why were these texts important? What were they seeking to create? What were their limitations? Also, within the paper I will integrate the film "Chicana" by Morales and how it relates to the movement.

Abstract
Lalo Guerrero fallecio el 17 de Marzo del 2005 en Palm Springs a los 88 anos de edad. Le sobreviven su esposa, sus hijos, sus hijastros y sus nieto. El trovador chicano no solamente dejo una gran huella en la comunidad chicana, sino que influencio y cambio el mundo de la musica en Estados Unidos y Mexico, logro hacer lo que probablemente muchos politicos nunca podran hacer, unir a dos paises de lenguas, sociedades y culturas tan diferentes y cerca el uno del otro.

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Uno de los AfAconos mas importantes e influenciantes de la sociedad chicana es el compositor y mAfA sico mexicanoamericano Lalo "El Chicano" Guerrero. Las contribuciones musicales que AfA(c)ste fallecido cantautor ha brindado a la sociedad mexicoamericana lo han hecho llegar a ser conocido como el padre de la mAfA sica chicana. Existen alrededor de mas de 450 canciones grabadas, "aunque no hay datos claros de cuantas canciones grabAfA3 y escribiAfA3" entre ellas se pueden encontrar corridos, canciones rancheras, canciones polAfAticas e infantiles, muchas de ellas en Spanglish; una mezcla entre la lengua hispana y el inglAfA(c)s. (Dahlberg)

Tags:lalo, guerrero, chicano

Abstract
The paper uses Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me Ultima", Carla Trujillo's "Chicana Lesbians", and Manuel Munoz' "Good As Yesterday," to demonstrate the various aspects of Chicano culture and family relations that make it difficult for individuals whose identities are beyond the rigid boundaries of this patriarchal society. From sexuality and religion to gender roles and support networks, the essay demonstrates how being "different" in Chicano culture often presents the individual with significant conflict and challenges.

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"In Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me Ultima", Carla Trujillo's "Chicana Lesbians" and Manuel Munoz' "Good As Yesterday" we learn a great deal about Chicano family and culture, including gender roles, sexuality and other aspects of family and culture. In "Bless Me Ultima", we see how Antonio comes of age and comes to a fuller appreciation of the energy of the earth and nature from the curandera healer who stays with his family in New Mexico. We learn that only those who remain young at..."

Tags:homosexuality, lesbians, Christianity, healing, nature, ostracism, isolation, nurturing

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"This Bridge Called My Back has the subtitle "Writings by Radical Women of Color," and this is precisely what is contained in this volume. The writings include poems, short stories, and various types of nonfiction demonstrating the range of interests in this particular segment of the population and the different modes of expression used by black, Asian, and Chicana women writers in addressing their role in the world, the state of society today, and their relationship to that society.


The book is edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua. Anzaldua is a Chicana poet, and Moraga describes herself as "a very tired Chicana/half-breed/feminist/lesbian/writer/teacher/
talker/waitress" (248), born in Los Angeles and productive first in San Francisco and then Boston. The editors brought the writings in this book together first beginning in 1979, and this..."

Abstract
This paper examines how Sandra Cisneros stands as one of the most formative Chicana writers of her generation. She has inspired many other Chicano novelists, poets, and essayists because of the critical and popular success of her first novel, "The House on Mango Street". It analyzes how, despite the book's attempt to give validity to a more positive view of Latin American culture as it exists in the United States, Cisneros's novel and her subsequent works have not limited their criticism of certain aspects of Hispanic life and reality, such as the inequality between the sexes.

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"The media itself is not all to blame, however. Cisneros believes that a girl, from birth, is raised with a different set of expectations in a Hispanic household. Within the common and accepted cultural framework, the father emerges as an unquestioned patriarch of the Latino household. Women's education is not valued on the same level as male education. Even girls who desire to better themselves through education are forced, because of cultural stereotyping, to assume care-taking functions that their brothers do not. Family relations inevitably affect the life of children in the school system when girls must do chores before their homework, or stay inside to preserve their safety and chastity, rather than wander where they might fall prey to young men."

Tags:hispanics, gender, chicana, mango, street