Chicano poetry (original) (raw)

Chicano poetry is a branch of American literature, and specifically Mexican-American literature, written by and primarily about Mexican Americans and the many Mexican-American ways of life in U.S. society. The term "Chicano" is a political and cultural term of identity specifically identifying people of Mexican descent who are born in the United States, but not all Mexican Americans identify with it. Chicano poetry and literature comprises the writing of the offspring of Mexicans who either emigrated to the United States or were involuntarily included in the country due to the Mexican–American War of 1848.