User:Riveraaa!/Chicana feminism

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 * Chicana feminism is a sociopolitical movement in the United States that scrutinizes the historical, cultural, spiritual, educational, and economical intersections in which Chicana women identify as. Chicana feminism is empowering and demands women within this movement to challenge institutionalized social norms that contribute to the stereotypes and oppressions of their ascribed intersectional identities. Most importantly, Chicana feminism is a movement, theory, and praxis that encourages women to reclaim their existence between and among the Chicano Movement and American feminist movement.


 * Political Organization (1960s-1970s)

Beginning in the 1940s, Mexican-Americans led a civil rights movement with a goal of achieving empowerment for the people and its communities. By the 1960s, the Chicano Movement, also known as El Movimiento, became a prominent campaign in the lives of many Mexican-American workers and youth.

In 1962, The United Farm Workers (UFW) organization was founded by César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, Gilbert Pedilla and Philip Vera Cruz. The UFW worked to secure better working conditions for the Chicanx farmhands in California." REMOVE the first 2 paragraphs. It is irrelevant to Chicana feminism. Yes, it is introducing the Chicano movement, but the 3rd paragraph is great as an introduction to both the Chicano movement and Chicana feminism.


 * Malintzin (also known as Doña Marina by the Spaniards or "La Malinche" post-Mexican independence from Spain) was born around 1505 to noble indigenous parents in rural Mexico. Since indigenous women were often used as pawns for political alliances at this time, she was betrayed by her parents and sold into slavery between the ages of 12–14, traded to Hernan Cortés as a concubine, and because of her intelligence and fluency in multiple languages, was promoted to his "wife" and diplomat. She served as Cortés's translator, playing a key role in the Spaniard's conquest of Tenochtitlan and, by extension, the conquest of Mexico. She bore Cortés a son, Martín, who is considered to be the first mestizo and the beginning of the "Mexican" race. (INCLUDE MORE SIGNIFICANCE ABOUT MALINCHE. For example, the sole reason (patriarchal) her parents sold her into slavery and how her knowledge in different languages became the reason why she would translate the Spaniards and Aztecs.)