(Gutierrez, 177)." They adopted and promoted the new identity of "Chicano," which "established strong symbolic ethnic boundaries for young Mexican Americans who explicitly and stridently rejected the notion of inherent Anglo-American superiority" (Gutierrez, 183). This new identity automatically gave everyone something in common which in turn made the group of activists stronger, and more identifiable as a whole. There was also the Plan of Aztlan, where Aztlan (the area interpreted as "lost territories" that Mexico surrendered to the United States after the United States Mexico war ended in 1848) represented the symbolic territorial base of the Chicano people. The Plan of Aztlan did something for the Chicanos that contradicted their previous belief that they needed to get assimilated within the American society. If anything, Aztlan somewhat diminished and rejected any connection Chicanos had with American culture and society. Along with the changes within the movement, another momentum increasing factor was the Cisneros case ruling that "Mexican Americans constituted an "identifiable minority group" and are entitled to "special federal assistance" (Gutierrez, 186). These reformations of ideas and opinions all lead to a smaller movement within the Chicano movement. Many of the activists were coming to the realization that Mexican immigration was becoming a major civil rights controversy; one they had, but really should not have, been ignoring. Slowly, many Mexican Americans had begun to depart from the original image of Mexican immigrants as being threats to encompassing them into their movement.During the Chicano movement, numerous Chicano support groups were created. CASA (the Center for Autonomous Social Action), though, was extremely fundamental in the exploration of the "significance of the relationship between immigration, Chicano ethnicity, and the status of Mexican Americans in the United States" (Gutierrez, 187). C...
