* Chicano performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña also makes heavy use of Spanglish.

With Ric Salinas and Herbert Siguenza, he co-founded Culture Clash, the country ’ s most popular Chicano / Latino performance troupe, in 1984.

The preferred media for Chicano art are murals and graphic arts.

Rasquache art is a unique style subset of the Chicano Arts movement.

) has had a deep impact in Chicano muralism, graphic design, tattoo art ( flash ), poetry, music, and literature.

Lowrider cars also figure prominently as functional art in the Chicano community.

It traditionally incorporates the study of history, literature, and critical theory, but also includes fields as diverse as law, art, the media, film, religious studies, urban studies, women's studies, gender studies, anthropology, sociology, African American studies, Chicano studies, Asian American studies, American Indian studies, foreign policy and culture of the United States, among other fields.

On April 10 and 12, 2008, in partnership with The National Endowment for the Arts ' Big Read, Roberto Cantú, professor of Chicano Studies and English, who is intimately familiar with Bless Me, Ultima, produced a dramatic reading as a stage adaptation of the novel at Cal State L. A. Cantú first reviewed the work when it was published in 1972, and has published and lectured extensively on its art, structure, and significance.

During the 1960s and 1970s, the Chicano art movement took a strong hold in Los Angeles.

The pillars supporting the bridge on the eastern end are painted with huge murals as part of Chicano Park, the largest collection of Chicano art murals in the world.

Local artist Salvador Torres proposed using the bridge and freeway pillars as a giant canvas for Chicano art at a time when urban wall murals were rare in the United States, and he and many other artists created the murals when permission for the park was finally granted in 1973.

Also in 1998, Song of the Coquí, his Hispanic family drama with humor and dance, won the Chicano / Latino Literary Award ( University of California, Irvine ) and an " American Dream " prize by Repertorio Español in New York City.

El Vez recorded a version titled " En el Barrio " that mixed humor with details about Chicano struggles.

At certain points in the 1970s, " Chicano " was the preferred term for reference to Mexican-Americans, particularly in the scholarly literature.

* In the 1991 Culture Clash play A Bowl of Beings, in response to Che Guevara's demand for a definition of " Chicano ", an " armchair activist " cries out, " I still don't know !!

" Chicano " may be a Hispanized word for " Chichen " or the Mayan descendants, not limited to Aztec descendants or Nahuatl people.

People descended from Aztlan ( both in the contemporary U. S. and in Mexico ) use the Chicano ideology to create a platform for fighting for immigration reform and equality for all people.

In recent years, a growing Tex-Mex polka band trend from Mexican immigrants ( i. e. Conjunto or Norteño ) has influenced much of new Chicano folk music, especially in large market Spanish language radio stations and on television music video programs in the U. S. The band Quetzal is known for its political songs.

San Diego artist Lil Rob opened doors for Chicano Rap by receiving mainstream attention for his singles " Summer Nights ", and " Bring Out the Freak in You ".

Los Angeles punk rock bands laid the groundwork for a wide variety of styles: The Flesh Eaters with deathrock ; The Plugz with Chicano punk ; and Gun Club with punk blues.

It stars Jack Albertson as Ed Brown ( the Man ), the cantankerous owner of a run down garage in an East Los Angeles barrio, and ( until his suicide late in the third season ) Freddie Prinze as Chico Rodriguez, an upbeat, optimistic Chicano young man who comes in looking for a job.

He is later approached by a businesswoman who has a better-paying job for him in Chicago as a foreman, which he initially declines ; he too encounters problems when a jealous Chicano co-worker reports him to immigration, causing him to flee the restaurant and seek out the businesswoman.

Although these five elected officials known as " Los Cinco " only held office for two years, many consider this moment the " spark " or starting point of what became known as the Chicano Movement.

The Cristal Experiment: A Chicano Struggle for Community Control ( University of Wisconsin Press, 1998 )

Alianza Federal de Mercedes, which in English translates to Federal Land Grant Alliance, was a group led by Reies Tijerina based in New Mexico in the 1960s that fought for the land rights of Chicano New Mexicans.

In the 1960s and 1970s, some Latino / Hispanic student groups flirted with nationalism and differences over the proper name for members of the community — Chicano / Chicana, Latino / Latina, Mexican Americans, or Hispanics became tied up with deeper disagreements over whether to integrate into or remain separate from mainstream American society, as well as divisions between those Mexican Americans whose families had lived in the United States for two or more generations and more recent immigrants.

The movement was particularly strong at the college level, where activists formed MEChA, an organization that seeks to promote Chicano unity and empowerment through education and political action, but also espouses revanchist ideals centered around " taking back " the American southwest for Mexicans.

* Richard Chaves as Jorge " Poncho " Ramirez, a Chicano fluent in Spanish who translates initially for Anna.

They claimed that the Department of Immigration was trying to blame the use of a failing economic system on the Chicano population, and that it was responsible for massive deportation and repressive action against Chicano and Mexican workers.

Many in the Chicano movement attribute poet Alurista for popularizing the term Aztlán in a poem presented during the Chicano Youth Liberation Conference in Denver, Colorado, in March 1969.

The word " Chicano " in the US was evidently not affected by this change.

The Chicano poet and writer Tino Villanueva traces the first documented use of the term to 1911, as referenced in a then-unpublished essay by University of Texas anthropologist José Limón.

" Chicano " is considered to be a positive term of honor by many.

The novel, " Chicano " by Richard Vasquez, was the first novel about Mexican-Americans to be released by a major publisher ( Doubleday, 1970 ).

San Diego's Chicano Park, home to the largest collection of murals in the world, was created as an outgrowth of the city's political movement by Chicanos.

Chicano rock is rock music performed by Chicano groups or music with themes derived from Chicano culture.

Groups inspired by this include Sir Douglas Quintet, Thee Midniters, Los Lobos, War, Tierra, and El Chicano, and, of course, the Chicano Blues Man himself, the late Randy Garribay.

Chicano rock crossed paths of other Latin rock genres ( Rock en espanol ) by Cubans, Puerto Ricans, such as Joe Bataan, and Ralphi Pagan and South America ( La Nueva Cancion ).

Irredentism is also expressed by some Chicano " nationalists " and Mexican-American activists in the Aztlán movement.

L. A .' s N. W. A., on their landmark 1988 album Straight Outta Compton, showed heavy influences from Tougher Than Leather-era Run – D. M. C., and Chicano rap act Cypress Hill were definitely influenced by Run – D. M. C.

By 1971, the CTW hired Hispanic actors, production staff, and researchers, and by the mid-1970s, Morrow reported that " the show included Chicano and Puerto Rican cast members, films about Mexican holidays and foods, and cartoons that taught Spanish words ".

* Electricidad, play by Luis Alfaro, modern adaptation of Electra based in the Chicano barrio

Due to a high percentage of Hispanics in the city, Coachella was a scene of Chicano political activism including protests and visits by United Farm Workers leader César Chávez in the 1960s and 1970s.

The journalist Rubén Salazar was killed in Los Angeles in 1970 by an errant CS gas canister during the Chicano riots.

Latina / o literature also became important during this period, starting with acclaimed novels by Tomás Rivera (... y no se lo tragó la tierra ) and Rudolfo Anaya ( Bless Me, Ultima ), and the emergence of Chicano theater with Luis Valdez and Teatro Campesino.