Chicano facts for kids

"Chicana" redirects here. For the wrestler, see Sangre Chicana.

A Chicano is a man who has a mixed ancestry and/or citizenship of the United States and usually Mexico. Often, Chicano and Mexican-American are used to mean the same thing. People from Central or South America and United States could also be called Chicano. Chicana is the female version of Chicano.

Images for kids

El Paso's Second Ward, a Chicano neighborhood (1972).
The front of the Mexic-Arte Museum at 419 Congress, Austin, Texas, United States.
Closeup of the Gutiérrez 1562 New World map. The town of Chicana is listed in the upper left of the map, which is the earliest recorded usage of Chicana/o.
The Chicano Movement situated itself in the masculine body, which has been critiqued by Chicana feminists.
A "Chicano Power!" by M.E.Ch.A. CSULA is held up in a crowd (2006)
"Water is sacred. Water is life." Mural in Chicano Park under the Coronado Bridge.
The Cuban Revolution was an inspirational event to many Chicanas/os as a challenge to American imperialism.
March against Proposition 187 in Fresno, California.
The U.S.-government-funded Bracero program (1942-64) was lobbied for by grower associations in an effort to destroy local organizing efforts and depress the wages of domestic Mexican and Chicano/a farmworkers.
Chicano/a demonstrators marching for farmworkers with United Farm Workers Union signs.
Sal Castro
Our Lady of Guadalupe
"Blue Race," Chicano Park
Please, Don't Bury Me Alive! (1976) is considered to be the first Chicano feature film.
Rudolfo Anaya
Chicano Batman is arguably the most recent popular Latin alternative band.
Baby Bash was born to a Mexican mother and a white father
The Los Lonely Boys
Selena Gomez
The Self-Help Graphics & Art a community arts center founded by a Franciscan nun started in this building completed in 1927.
La Ofrenda, Yreina Cervántez, Los Angeles, 1989
National Museum of Mexican Art
Mexican Heritage Plaza, on Alum Rock Avenue, San Jose, California