Question

•How do the cultural representations and cultural practices of Chicanos/as reflect their continuing struggle for freedom and empowerment, not only vis-à-vis Anglo American dominant society, but also within the community?

Answer 1

U.S. capitalism would have never been able to afford Chicano equality and at the same time  keep its profits high. The exploitation of the labor of this enormous population at wages far below average, and the relegation of Chicanos to the army of the unemployed in times of economic depression, are the main structural props of the U.S. profit system. This stated, a strategy for Chicano liberation was a revolutionary one aimed at replacing capitalism with a new, democratic socialist order.the current struggles over citizenship are not unique to the present case in point, as evidenced by the Americanization programs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries aimed at Native Americans and Chicanos, as well as the imposition of English within the Puerto Rican educational system in the post-1898 period. The yearn for acceptance got them to that point where from they never wished to get back.