Their lot improved with World War II, where they served in the Women’s Army Corp and on the home front. Throughout the 20th Century, Chicanas organized, with and without their men. They helped found LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens) in 1929, ANMA (National Mexican-American Association) in 1949, the Brown Berets in 1967, la Raza Unida in 1969, and …

One of the individuals, Chicana feminist activist Alicia Escalante, was born in El Paso, Texas, in 1933. She eventually moved to Los Angeles. In California, she soon found herself supporting five children on welfare alone. She viewed the welfare system …

01/05/1980 · The Chicana in American History: The Mexican Women of El Paso, 1880-1920: A Case Study. Mario T. García. Mario T. García. Search for other works by this author on: This …

The term Chicana was coined during the Chicano Movement by Mexican American women who wanted to establish social, cultural, and political identities for themselves in America. Chicana refers to a woman who embracers her Mexican culture and heritage, but simultaneously, recognizes the fact that she is an American. It is a self-selected term that usually applies to …

The Chicana’s Conference held in Houston, TX; it aimed to analyze women’s roles in the Movement 1972 La Raza Unida holds its first national convention in El Paso Patricia Rodriguez organizes Las Mujeres Muralistas in the San Francisco Bay Area, with members

that even for women not engaged in wage work, class has a different meaning when experienced differently. When Texas Chicanas were domestic servants, for example, they derived a sense of their identity as workers from a hierarchical, personalist relationship with Anglo women, certainly a different sense of "worker" and a different set of