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What’s the difference between Chicano, Latino, Mexican American, Hispanic, Chicanx or Latinx? Historically, the question of identification for Mexicans left in the U.S. after the U.S.-Mexico War ended in 1848 as to who we are and how we identify ourselves remains a generational “problem” or “issue,” to date. After 173 years, Chicanos remain a conquered, colonized, occupied, hunted, and powerless people due to this unresolved “problem” or “issue.” Manifested by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexicans have been made strangers in their land, with thousands of babies and child...

By: Herman Baca Fifty years later, I can still vividly remember what happened to me personally and politically in Los Angeles, California on August 29, 1970. At the time, I was 27 years old, today I’m 77. Herman Baca In those 50 years, many persons I knew that marched in the Chicano Moratorium are no longer with us. In other words,  “An era is slowly, but surely coming to an end.” In 1970 unlike 2020 La Raza was a minute minority, known to U.S. institutions as the,  “Forgotten, silent & invisible minority,” today we number 70 million Chicanos/Mexicanos/Latinos. In 1970, thirty t...

Historically, the question of identification for Mexicans left in the U.S. after the U.S.-Mexico War ended in 1848 as to who we are and how we identify ourselves remains a generational "problem" or "issue," to date.