Chicano or Chicana or Chicane is an ethnic identity for Mexican Americans that emerged from the Chicano Movement.
A "Chicano Power!" by M.E.Ch.A. CSULA is held up in a crowd (2006).
"Chicana by luck, proud by choice" at 2019 Women's March, Los Angeles
Chicano may derive from the Mexica people, originally pronounced Meh-Shee-Ka.
Frank H. Tellez, a Pachuco youth, wears a zoot suit while arrested in the Zoot Suit Riots. Pachucos were the first to reclaim the word Chicano as a form of pride.
The Chicano Movement, also referred to as El Movimiento, was a social and political movement in the United States that worked to embrace a Chicano identity and worldview that combated structural racis
Chicano
…Chicano (masculine form) or Chicana (feminine form) or Chicane (neutral form) is an ethnic identity for Mexican Americans that emerged from the Chicano Movement. In the 1960s, Chicano was widely reclaimed among Hispanics in the building of a movement toward political empowerment, ethnic solidarity, and pride…
Cesar Chavez with demonstrators
The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC)
Three of the "Big Four" of the Chicano movement at the Raza Unida Party's 1972 convention: Reies Lopez Tijerina, New Mexico (second from left), Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, Colorado (center), and José Ángel Gutiérrez, Texas (far right). Cesar Chavez, California, did not attend.
Luisa Moreno, a Guatemalan social activist who played a major role in the pre-Chicano Movement.