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- (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) The Chicano Moratorium, formally known as the National Chicano Moratorium Committee, was a movement of Chicano anti-war activists that built a broad-based coalition of Mexican-American groups to organize opposition to the Vietnam War.
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moratorium 1a : a legally authorized period of delay in the performance of a legal obligation or the payment of a debtb : a waiting period set by an authority. 2 : a suspension of activity.
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Identity Crisis 1 Moratorium is the status of a person who is actively involved in exploring different identities, but has not made a commitment. 2  Foreclosure status is when a person has made a commitment without attempting identity exploration.  Identity diffusion occurs when there is neither an identity crisis or commitment.
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Chicano Chicano or Chicana (also spelled Xicano or Xicana), is a chosen identity of some Mexican Americans in the United States. The term Chicano is sometimes used interchangeably with Mexican[-]American. Both names are chosen identities within the Mexican-American community in the United States. However, these terms have a wide range of meanings in various parts of the Southwest. The term became widely used during the Chicano Movement by Mexican Americans to express pride in a shared cultural, ethnic and community identity.
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Chicanos Por La Causa Chicanos Por La Causa. Chicanos Por La Causa (CPLC) is a non-profit organization in Arizona founded in 1969. It is a statewide community development corporation (CDC). It has staff of over 600 with an operating budget of $137.75 million and directly serves more than 200,000 people throughout Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico. Contents.
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El Centro de la Raza El Centro de la Raza. El Centro de la Raza in Seattle, Washington, United States, is an educational, cultural, and social service agency, centered in the Latino/Chicano community and headquartered in the former Beacon Hill Elementary School on Seattle's Beacon Hill. It was founded in 1972 and celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2007.
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- CIVIL RIGHTS DIRECTORY. FEDERAL AGENCIES. CRC is the Department of Labor office responsible for enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. CRC is responsible for both the Department's external and internal civil rights enforcement programs.
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Definitions &Translations Chicano(Noun) A Chicano person. Chicano(Adjective) American but of Mexican descent, especially if conscious of one's political identity in the U.S. body politic. Chicano(Adjective) Identifying with the mixed-raced heritage of Old World and New World. Chicano(Adjective) Of or pertaining to Chicano people.
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Chicano: What Does The Word Mean And Where Does It Come From? Whatever its origins, Mexican Americans have used the word “Chicano” to describe people of Mexican origin living in the United States since the early twentieth century, de León writes. Originally wealthier Mexican-Americans used the term as a pejorative, a way to describe Mexican-Americans of lower social standing (likely with some racial overtones).
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- Dolly Parton. Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean (known as Dolly Parton; January 19, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and philanthropist, known primarily for her work in country music.
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- Chicana and Chicano Mental Health provides a fine model to address the special mental health and service challenges affecting Mexican immigrants and Mexican-Americans, and comes from an author who holds more than thirty years of experience as a clinical psychologist.
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World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - Honduras : Lenca, Miskitu, Tawahka, Pech, Maya, Chortis and Xicaque In conjunction with the larger and well organized Lenca to the south, Maya Chorti have demanded that the central government return nearly 35,000 acres to indigenous people as was promised in an eighteenth-century agreement with the Spanish colonial government.
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- Greenlining Institute. The Greenlining Institute is a public policy, research, and advocacy non-profit organization based in Berkeley, California. The Greenlining Institute's mission is to empower communities of color and other disadvantaged groups through multi-ethnic economic and leadership development, civil rights, and anti-redlining activities.
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- Redlining Redlining is an illegal practice. Redlining is the term for when a lender refuses to loan money or extend credit to a specific part of a city -- most often because of the concentration of a specific income level or ethnic group present in that location. For example: A bank draws up a map of a city and locates an area that is predominantly Hispanic.
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- Marta Cotera served as a Chicana feminist icon to the current generation of Chicana feminists, activists, and scholars. Since the 1960s, she was active both in the Chicano movement, and in documenting the role of women within the movement. She is best known for her book, Sol y Hembra, one of the first and best histories of Mexican American women and their contributions to civil rights and Chicana/o history.
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- Victor Ochoa (born August 2, 1948) is an activist, painter, graphic designer and master muralist. He has painted over 100 murals, many of them in San Diego , California. He is considered one of the pioneers of San Diego's Chicano art movement.
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- The story begins with one of the many problems that destroyed the organizing efforts. Through an informal arrangement known as the Bracero program, which was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, which recruited temporary workers helped depress wages in the sector of agricultural labor. This program became Public Law in 1951.
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Chicano Movement The Chicano Movement had been fermenting since the end of the U.S.–Mexican War in 1848, when the current U.S–Mexican border took form. Since that time, many Chicanos and Chicanas have campaigned against discrimination, racism and exploitation.
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moratorium a suspension of activity: a moratorium on the testing of nuclear weapons. 2. a legally authorized period to delay payment of money due or the performance of some other legal obligation, as in an emergency. 3. an authorized period of delay or waiting.
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- Furthermore, another Plan was also developed as an intellectual social movement within the Chicana and Chicano Movement. This was El Plan de Santa Barbara; a manifesto that would change the educational world for Chicano students forever. 1.
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Cesar Chavez Chicano activist Cesar Chavez was one of America’s best known labor leaders. Born in Arizona in 1927, Chavez was one of six children. His family moved in California during the Great Depression, and everyone worked as farm workers, traveling from farm to farm throughout California, cultivating and harvesting crops.
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College hosts 3rd annual Cesar Chavez Behavioral Health Conference The conference is designed to recognize human rights icon Cesar Chavez and raise awareness about issues that impact minorities and disenfranchised populations that receive or are eligible to receive behavioral health services.
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Mexican standoff A Mexican standoff is a confrontation between two or more parties in which no participant can proceed or retreat without being exposed to danger. As a result, all participants need to maintain the strategic tension, which remains unresolved until some outside event makes it possible to resolve it.
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- The guiding document of the conference was the Monterrey Consensus, a 16-page statement of purpose drafted beforehand to frame the terms of the debate, to set policy guidelines, and, above all, to encourage consensus-- as the title implies -- among the various state delegations and NGOs in attendance.
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- On September 28, 2008, Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed AB 2874, which would have deleted the $150,000 limitation on actual damages that may be assessed by the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission against a respondent who violates the California Civil Rights Act of 2005, as an unlawful practice.
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- Chicana feminism means almost as many different things as there are different Chicanas. For the purposes of this space, I define Chicana feminism as a critical framework which looks at inequalities along lines of race, class, gender, and sexuality as they effect women of Mexican descent in the United States. That means talking about sexism, racism, homophobia, and poverty as interlinked issues.