Editing Beltrán 2010 (section)

====Community Control, Group Advancement, Cross-Class Solidarity, and the Critique of Individualism====
*Movements continue to push the importance of community, especially in institutional contexts
**“Oppression and inequality would never end until Chicanos and Puerto Ricans controlled the institutions that directly affected community life”
*El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán
**Chicano movement manifesto
**Institutions exist largely due to communities, therefore institutions like the economy should belong to the people and serve the people of that community
*Community Control
**Institutions (like schools and workplaces) controlled by non-Latinos fail to treat Latinos in fair manners that don’t include exploitation and social inequality
*Members of the Young Lords Party, whether from the barrio or not, supported the Latino working class
*University students took advantage of their privileges to help the movement
**El Plan de Santa Barbara was even written by Chicano graduate students and professors
**Highlighted the importance of MEChA in education
*Members of the Young Lords Party, whether from the barrio or not, supported the Latino working class
*University students took advantage of their privileges to help the movement
**El Plan de Santa Barbara was even written by Chicano graduate students and professors
**Highlighted the importance of MEChA in education
*Self-preservation vs. preservation of the group
**Raised to see every man for themselves
**Supporting the success of your group ensures the existence of all
**Those with success are seen as the “exception rather than the rule” 
*Background of Young Lords and Chicanos
**Young Lords were once a Puerto Rican street gang
**Chicano is a term that signifies rebirth of pride and confidence in their identity
*La Raza Unida Party
**Good example of community control
**Mobilized Chicanos to the polls
**Boosted representation by supporting Chicano candidates 
**Those running for the school board that did not fit the stereotypical expectations of that role