… Chicana/o/x Studies … Chicana/o/x Studies … Chicana/o Studies was created in the cauldron of the social activism of the 1960's and 1970's—the Chicano Movement, … Social Science research of the time, namely Chicano Studies. The goals this new area of study adopted were to create new knowledge about the diverse Chicano community; reformulate old knowledge; apply research knowledge to the improvement of the …