Racism And Chicanas Essay

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Racism and Chicanas/os Race is a category regarding people that separates people by their biological characteristics (Menchaca 37). However, race does not naturally exist. It is an ideology that has been constructed by people due to ahistorical thinking and due to arrogant and selfish motives.
For instance, in a passage by Martha Menchaca, she states that Romano-V argued that
Anglo-American scholars strategically studied Mexican-Americans, ahistorically, in order to ignore previous acts of racism that Anglo-Americans committed (Menchaca 15). This is believed to have been done in order to keep Mexican-Americans from advancing socially, economically, and politically (Menchaca 15). In the process, this would also allow the Anglo-Americans …show more content…
A more recent instance of how racism, as an ideology, has been expressed in the development of Chicana/o history took place throughout the 1950s and 1960s and pertains to the situations in the schools of East Los Angeles (Haney Lopez 17-18). During this time, only half of Chicana/o students were able to graduate high school (Haney Lopez 17). This is believed to have been due to the physical conditions of the schools, to overcrowding, and to insufficient resources (Haney Lopez 17). Ian F. Haney Lopez states in his book, Racism on Trial, that the
Los Angeles school board did not place enough attention to the schools in East Los Angeles because of racial beliefs (Haney Lopez 17). An example of how Chicanas/os responded and challenged this racism was by organizing (Haney Lopez 17). Through organizing, Chicnanas/os were able to make groups that were roughly aimed at improving education, for instance, the United Mexican
American Students (UMAS) and the Young Citizens for Community Action (YCCA) were some of the groups that formed during that time (Haney Lopez 18-19). Though, these groups were first aimed at improving education, some of their aims later changed. For instance, the YCCA
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