Chicano Movement!
By: Angeles Moreno (:
Luis J. Rodriguez
After slowly turning his back on the gang violence and drugs that defined his youth in 1960’s and 70’s Los Angeles, Rodríguez began his career as a journalist and poet. Even during his darker days he was active in the Chicano movement. His award-winning memoir "Always Running" offers a poignant, yet ultimately hopeful look at life in the barrio.
The Concrete River
This art goes with the poem because its saying their not just something they can put down or to the side, and the poem states how they lived and how they were treated.
"The Concrete River" (1990)
This art represents how Mexican Americans were they would spray paint the walls to show their feelings and to express how they felt about what was going on at the time. "Spray-painted outpourings
On walls offer a chaos Of color for the eyes."
- This connects to the poem of The Concrete River because he is stating how him and his brother would spray pain the walls because of the chaos and to show how they see the world in their eyes.
The Concrete River
This art i believe goes with the poem because this art shows how even though all the Chicano's and their family's were struggling and didn't have everything everyone else had they still had faith and still believed in their culture.
" I am friend of books, prey of cops, lover of the barrio women selling hamburgers and tacos at the P&G Burger Stand"