Abstract

The Chicano Rebellion

This article takes a closer look at the Mexican American student movements. Now it's the Mexican Americans--Chicanos, they are called in California--who are appearing on the scene of protest, with a self-evaluation that breaks radically away from the old stereotypes. Militant Chicano student organizations are active throughout California, not only in colleges but in high schools as well, and they are growing in the lest of the Southwest U.S. Anthropologist Octavio I. Romano points out that Mexican Americans have been the main figures in the labor movement in the Southwest, that they published the first Western underground newspapers, that they have pushed through bilingual education in two states and that they clinched the victory for U.S. President John F. Kennedy.