Tag Archives: Chicano

18 January 2023Best Books & Fabulous Filmsbiker gang, blockbuster, Chicano, drama series, Elgin James, Ezekiel “EZ” Reyes, FX, guns and drugs, Leuphana, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Mexican American, Movie, Representation, Sons of AnarchyJanina Malena Sähn

We Own the Majority: Mayans M.C. Brings Drama, Representation, and Larger-Than-Life Grit

By Hannah Quinque

Photo by Steqvc at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MayansMC.png#/media/File:MayansMC.png.

FX’s Mayans M.C. is a drama series showcasing a world of guns and drugs around a biker gang in SoCal, right at the US-Mexican border. Can a setting riddled with stereotypes present a backdrop for desirable representation with its principally Mexican American (Chicano) characters? Let’s look beyond the basic premise and find out how Mayans M.C., for all its machismo, tells tales full of life seldom featured, off- as well as on-screen.

5 May 2021Teaching ToolsAztlán, César Chávez, Chicana, Chicano, Cinco de Mayo, La Cultura Chicana, Leuphana, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Mexican Americans, Mexican-American War, Mexican-U.S. Border, Mexico, Quiz, The House On Mango Street, U.S.-Mexican Border, United States, USAHenrike Kattoll

Chicana/o Quiz

In order to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, the – unfortunately not official – holiday of Mexican Americans in the United States, I’d like you to do the quiz and see how much you know about “la cultura chicana.”

Download the quiz and don’t look at the answers yet!