Civil Rights Movements: The Chicano Movement

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In the history of the U.S, civil rights movements have played a huge role for many ethnic groups who lost their identity in the American society nowadays. Majority of the civil rights movements are magnificent to a degree, they are able to accomplish the protesters goals in order to achieve their demands. Student movements have played an essential role in many major social, cultural, and political transformations, at least partly because of their unique social status as well as their eagerness to ask for change and achieve their demands. Students are the young youth generation who is creative and energetic to make all what they want to regain their rights. These characteristics help to explain the existence of student’s social movements, their…show more content…
The DREAMers struggled to get their college degree because of not having the documents needed to provide their citizenship. As a result, many students did not go to college after high school, but went straight to work instead of getting their higher education. Moreover, the ones decided to complete their education struggled to have access to in-state tuition and were denied the right to apply for financial aid (Nicholls 2013, p.3). Students were put to make the choice of being “in between” either to go to college and have to pay out- of - state tuition or go directly to work. Yet, they still work in jobs that do not ask for a work permit or a social security number. As a consequence, these students are only able to work in precarious and low paying work (Nicholls 2013, p.3). They had to accept working in low wage jobs as well as giving up on getting a college degree because of living illegally in the…show more content…
They had empathy as individuals with the Chicano movement, but at the same time they were looking at the big picture of the revolution demands, “The authors of the plan were ‘in-between’ in many ways, as individuals and as a ‘people.’ The tension and contradictions between a plan for upward mobility and one focused on revolution are apparent” (Rodríguez 2015, p.98). Additionally, the authors believed that the student’s movement did not get what the revolution wanted, however, they excelled in pointing out the real issues the Mexican-American students faced from lacking the basic study skills for college students to success (Rodríguez 2015,
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