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Crossroads: Chicano Identity and Border Culture Lesson PlanCrossroads: Chicano Identity and Border Culture Lesson Plan
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Crossroads: Chicano Identity and Border Culture

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Students identify and explore complex ways that the theme of "frontiers" or socio-political borders affect Chicano identity in the US and examine notions of "resistance" and "affirmation" as a fundamental ideology in Chicano life, history, and culture.

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9th - 12th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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