Describe the Chicano as signified in El Plan de Santa Barbara

How was “Chicano” signified in El Plan de Santa Barbara? What were the “social forces” that the Chicano Coordinating Council on Higher Education sought to challenge? How are these “social forces” addressed by Ian Haney Lopez in Racism on Trial, Martha Menchaca in Recovering History, Constructing Race, and/or Jack Forbes in Los Aztecas del Norte? What are two examples of how the movement sought to transform these forces and social conditions?

• This midterm should be no longer than three pages long (4 including bibliography)
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• Specifically, this midterm covers the following readings, El Plan de Santa Barbara, Racism on Trial, 1491, Recovering History/Constructing Race, and Los Aztecas del Norte.
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