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Nguyen, Vincent Mrs.Allan Journey for Justice 5 October, 2016 “Race Politics” by luis j. Rodriguez is piece of writing that is based off of an event that happened in his childhood. I believe that it is about how segregation and how kids learn about it at a young age. Luis Rodriguez used connotation,denotation,and syntax. In Luis Rodriguez poem “Race Politics” line 26-26 it states “we entered forbidden narrow line of hate.
Richard Rodriguez’s claim about a person's identity is the using race as a basis for identifying Americans is not valid; culture should be what defines a identity. Richard Rodriguez says that newcomers were being “welcomed within a new community for reasons of culture. “ (136-137). Richard Rodriguez says that newcomers were welcomed when they were identified by their culture. Richard Rodriguez also says “I am Chinese, and that is because I live in a Chinese city and I want to be Chinese.“
The reading, “Latinos in the U.S. Race Structure” explains how Latin Americans view race and the way that race is viewed overall in the United States. The reading gives reasons as to why there is a disconnect between the two viewpoints. After reading the article, I saw two issues that Rodriguez helped me clarify and they were; how Latin Americans understanding of race differ from the understanding of the U.S and how Latinos’ experiences of race show that race is manmade. The first issue that Rodriguez helped me understand was how Latinos perception of race differs from the U.S.
The video introduces the idea of “in between people. These in between people were of European Decent and could be transformed into Americans by Americanizing them into the White American. They would be apart of a term known as the “melting pot”. A melting of all European Descent to mold them into Americans. Italians, Germans and other European could be apart of the American way of life by being taught the language and customs.
Written by Carlos Fuente, “The Old Gringo” is a novel portraying the story of an old man who travels across borders and builds relationships. The man is an American who has traveled all over the United States. He has made explorations from the eastern border of the country to the western border, crossing many state lines to do so. Not only did the Old Gringo cross physical boarders, but he also crossed several relational borders. His crossing of borders was beneficial in some cases but harmful in some ways as well.
With Ruiz, the melting pot did not welcome him for his outer appearance comparing to his friend Valdes. Their “friendship was cemented through school and sport. They stood up for each other against troublemakers” (Ojito, 2000), but they now hold two different lives due to the color of their skin. Although sharing the same ethnicity, the colors of their appearance separate the two best friends. In other words, by biological mean, they are “differentiated by physical characteristics”
Deborah Pacini Hernandez wrote a book titled Oye Como Va!, which she explains about hybridity and identity. According to the book, she is associate professor of Anthropology and American studies at Tufts University. She has written other books on Spanish-language music, such as Bachata: A Social History of Dominican Popular Music and Reggaeton and Rockin’ Las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America. This to an extent allows me to consider Hernandez an authoritative source for my topic. Hernandez goes over hybridity, which is “the mixture of two or more dissimilar elements” (1).
THE FATHER, THE SON, AND LA CHINGADA: THE TRINITY OF THE CONQUEST ‘Lo Mexicano’ is a phrase-turned-concept in 20th century Mexican philosophy. The term literally translates to “the Mexican,” however, it is also used to superficially describe the identity of the Mexican individual. The notion came about after the revolution; the phrase was meant to emphasize and unite Mexico as an independent people. Today, the phrase is understood as an all encompassing term for “mexicanness,” or that which makes someone a true mexican.
1. What is the Latino paradox? Why does it exist? a. The Latino paradox was identified by researchers in the 1960s and it notion that Latino immigrants of lower income and education has low rates of mental health issues compared to whites who has higher education and income.
Immigration is deeply rooted in the American culture, yet it is still an issue that has the country divided. Marcelo and Carola Suarez-Orozco, in their essay, “How Immigrants Became ‘Other’” explore the topic of immigration. They argue that Americans view many immigrants as criminals entering America with the hopes of stealing jobs and taking over, but that this viewpoint is not true. They claim that immigrants give up a lot to even have a chance to come into America and will take whatever they can get when they come. The Suarez-Orozco’s support their argument using authority figures to gain credibility as well as exemplification through immigrant stories.
“The virtual personas of Latino immigrants (represented as a threat to the nation) make the authority that has accumulated for real immigrants in their role as workers and consumers vanish” (Chavez 47). In the public eye Latinos are depicted as noncompliant and dangerous citizens and noncitizens of the United States. “The virtual lives of ‘Mexicans,’ ‘Chicanos,’ ‘illegal aliens,’ and ‘immigrants’ become abstractions and representations that stand in the place of real lives” (Chavez 47). It is depressing to understand that the majority of the United States strictly sees Latinos as these distorted images. At the end of the day each individual’s life matters, we all need to become more compassionate for one another.
Upon reading the selections The Myth of the Melting Pot, Gentrification, and How Immigrants Became Other, one notices a shocking trend: The “land of the free,” isn't really what it claims to be. From ideas of white supremacy, to heterogenous cultural mixtures that result in only one uniform product, to the rejection of outsiders, America is not the melting pot that it has pretended to be for centuries. Ever since the founding of the colonies, so-called Americans have never been truly and intimately intertwined. As one peels away the facade, it becomes evident that citizens in this great land favor sweeping differences under the rug rather than facing them, keeping shame in the dark, and inferiority and superiority mounted on the wall. Who sings
societies in the world. These sub-cultures include Whites, African Americans, Asians, Irish, Latino, and European among others. Chicano refers to the identity of Mexican-American descendant in the United State. The term is also used to refer to the Mexicans or Latinos in general. Chicanos are descendants of different races such as Central American Indians, Spanish, Africans, Native Americans, and Europeans.
Latin America is an ethnically and racially diverse region, and this diversity is made visible through the multiplicity of cultural expressions and different ways of living of its citizens. However, the Latin American societies were influenced by hegemonic racial ideologies that created social structures and diminished the way in which indigenous populations in Afro-descendant populations are represented in recognized in the region. One of the mechanisms through which racial ideologies manifest and reproduce is the media, which over the decades have served as a space for the reproduction of images and representations about ethnic and racial diversity and ethnic populations several. In spite of this, there are few specialized studies in the
It is now used to define people who can be traced back to a Spanish speaking country and as such can cause overlap with being Latino. Being Latino however, is usually used to characterize those of Latino ancestry with an emphasis on North and South America. The data received from the Census shows that large majority of people who pick to be Hispanic or Spanish or Latino usually also pick the “Some other or White Race” option as they most likely think that their physical characteristics resembles the “White” option the most, or that none of the racial choices above are adequate enough to describe themselves. The government feels that the ethnicity categories are far too broad and they limit the variations on ethnicity as it only denominates two choices, Non-Hispanic or Hispanic. Many groups then choose the Non-Hispanic option and are simply lumped together, such as identifying yourself as Asian-American or Egyptian -American; where despite being extremely diverse you are forced to be place in the same