CH ST 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sonia Sotomayor, Economic Mobility, 4 The People
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The term started in the 1920s during the mass immigration because some mexican. In the 1940s, it became a term used by mexican-american. In the 1960s, the chicano movement, the largest chicano civil rights movement, adopted the term. Chicano became a politicized term, someone who is an activist for the movement. During the 1930s, children of immigrants were coming of age and they faced exclusions. They searched for an identity for themselves and this term is similar to other ones. The term represented their parental culture and their status for being born in the like irish-american or german-american. The term mexicano is often used by mexican immigrants. The term mexican applies to anyone of mexican background either immigrant or. Around the 1970s and 80s, the federal government coined the term get an idea of how many people of hispanic descent are in the country.
