The chicano Mouvement

The chicano Mouvement

The Chicano Murals

Frida Vizcaino, Nicolas Mayoral

Introduction

The Chicano movement started in the 60s with a growing population of Chicanos in the United States. The movement started to give the chicanos a voice in the American community. It all started as a political movement but then it also became a cultural and artistic movement. The Chicanos expresed them self with murals, Influenced with Mexican muralist like, Diego Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros.

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They are in the watts. The watts it´s a marginalized neighborhood in L.A with Chicano and African American communities.

There are Mexican symbols, that represent the culture and history. The Adelitas: Mexican revolutionary women´s. It empowers women. The Corn: Traditional food and plant.

Chicano schools, were they teach in both languages. The're bilingual schools.

The only way of making progress for Chicano´s is thrue school. (Women with diploma) There are still Mexican roots.

The Chicano community is very united. The family, the union and the support in the community is very important.

This is a political mural that show's the Chicano Mouvement. This movement was lead by Cesar Chavez a political figure of the Chicanos.

Here we have an eagle. The Chicano symbol. If we turn it upside down, we ca see a Mexican pyramid.

We can see a lot of Mexican symbols: - Virgen of Guadalupe. - Corn - Indigenous - Popocatépetl

There are people planting the flag in "New Aztlan" ( Texas, New Mexico, California...). These people are the Mexican history: Indigenous, Conqueror, Revolutionary, and a Chicano. This is a representation of the "Marine Corps War Memorial", a statue in Washington.

"Barrios Unidos" Means the importance of being together, as a community. The communitys are united as one.

Here we see 3 persons and we can imagine that they are part of the Barrios Unidos community and they are Chicanos.

The Chicano kid is going to school. His only way to progress.

We can see Mexican symbols: Popocatépetl, virgen de Guadalupe, beans

There are guns pointing the kid. They symbolise the gang violence and how they look for Chicanos kids to join. There are some hands trying to stop the guns. But we know they can´t.

Conclusion

How do the murals give the essence of the Chicano Mouvement? As we see, murals show us the essence of Chicano Mouvement with differents representations of their culture and history such as the Guadalupe Hidalgo treaty, the representation of them planting the flag in the American soil, and Mexican symbols ( Corn, Adelitas, Virgen de Guadalupe...). How do the murals reveal how the mouvement has evolved? We can see a clear evolution in the murals. At first they were made to send a political message. The Chicano wanted to be included in the community. Then murals started to transmit a cultural message. We can see their history, their culture, their life as Chicanos in the murals. How they had to fit in another country and progress. The murals become more artistical than political.