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The multifaceted issue of racism has been intensely explored by many, but it is Will Allen’s The Good Food Revolution that draws a staggering connection between discrimination and the United States’ obesity epidemic, offering solutions that tackle both monstrosities at once. Allen’s belief that access to locally grown produce should be a basic right stems from years of witnessing that right being strategically denied to the urban poor. The spread of chain business and the reduction of farms has created a crisis that Allen’s company Growing Power seeks to rectify. These claims are not only supported by the evidence presented by Allen in his experience, but also by circumstances in the reader’s life that mirrors what is described. It is unnerving to realize the after how far the United States has come, inequality is still being served at the dinner table.
The conquistadors had many factors that had helped them conquer the large Native American civilizations that had already inhabited the Americas, but the greatest factors working in their favor were disease, technological advances, and tactics they used against the Native Americans. When the Europeans arrived to the Americas, they were set on their conquest to explore and to hopefully gain more wealth from conquering the Native American civilizations. The overall arrival of the Europeans would change the course of history and lead to devastating effects for the Native Americans. One of the first things that the Native Americans were affected by was the diseases that the conquistadors brought over from Europe.
The Hispanics were in the newly-acquired territory before the 1840s. When the United States acquired New Mexico, many Hispanics were acquired also. These Hispanics were cattle farmers and sheep ranchers. Despite being on the land for many years, the Hispanics were not allowed citizenship even though they were 50,000 of them compared to 1,000 whites. These Hispanics feared of the new whites taking their land.
The narrative of art that Lorenzo Ghiberti tells in “The Second Commentary” is how the Christian faith was victorious in the time of Emperor Constaine and Pope Sylvester (152). But the decline, began when everyone was ordered to make any statue and or picture in the color white (153). This, in Ghiberti’s opinion ended the art and teachings of sculpture and art. But, the rise of art and sculpture began when Greeks began to create paintings and sculptures over six hundred before the great era of Christianity (153). It is when Cimabue, one of the greatest painters from Florence took a young boy under his wing by the name of Gitto.
But this is not a new story. My own great-grandparents left Russia and eastern Europe for the US around the beginning of the 20th century. Jews didn’t have an easy time in tsarist Russia and, certainly by contemporary standards, they were a persecuted, oppressed minority. Equally, it would be naive to think that they weren’t in large part motivated by the desire to build a better, more prosperous life in the US. The same is probably true for many of today’s migrants: both push and pull factors are at
Immigrants should be allowed to work in America and should be treated with full respect and decency. Immigrants deserve recognition for everything they have done for our county. The Immigrants dedication to improving in everything they do needs to flourish in America. They start more businesses that add opportunities in our country. Their devotion towards our military is priceless.
Lex Gilded Age Immigrants During the Gilded Age “New” Immigrants came and were worse at integrating than the Old Immigrants. New Immigrants which hailed places like Greece, Mexico, and China. New Immigrants that didn’t speak English and didn’t share the same customs. How racist was the gilded age?
Who were the conquistadors? Conquistadors were mainly from Spain, particularly from southern and southwestern Spain. Conquistadors typically came from families that were poor ranging to families of lower nobility. Those who were very high born did not feel the need to set off in search of adventure. Conquistadors had to have some money to begin with, to buy tools needed for their job like weapons, armor, and horses.
In the 1960’s, the population in the United States grew from 3 million to more than 9 million. Mexican Americans, have lived mostly in the Southwest and California. Immigrants began immigrating to the US in 1898. In 1960, almost 900,000 Puerto Ricans were living in the US with half a million living in New York. Large Cuban Communities began to form in New York City, Miami, and New Jersey.
The Roaring Twenties are recognized for the increase in opportunities for different ethnic groups throughout California. Mexican immigrants are a particular ethnic group who have historically been marginalized by legislation and political rhetoric. Mexicans immigrants migrated to California with the intent of gaining economic opportunities. While the United States allowed for more economic opportunities to be attained, the treatment of Mexicans during the 1920s unveil inequity in labor policies and structures. The experiences of Mexican immigrants during the 1920s illustrate an increase in economic opportunity and the simultaneous susceptibility to exploitative systems of labor and discriminatory ideologies.
Search Again family is a “close-knit group and the most important social group to gather in any events or special days” (Mendez). It is at the centre of the social structure. The Mexican “family unit” includes not only parents and children, but also extended families and grandparents. As it provides a sense of stability in relationships. Children are taught at a young age that one must give the most “respeto” (respect) and honor to family members such as parents, aunts, uncles, and especially grandparents (elders).
Most immigrants who came to the U.S had high expectations that they would find wealth but once they arrived they realized their expectations weren’t what they expected. Although, they were disappointed in not finding wealth the conditions in which the U.S was in by the late 1800s were still a lot better than the places they all had left behind to come. The majority of the immigration population anticipation was to find profitable jobs and opportunities. When the large numbers of immigration were migrating to the U.S, it was during the “Gilded Age”, which was the prime time for the country’s expansion of industrialization. This rapid expansion of new industries led to the need of workers which motivated people from other countries to come to
Undocumented immigrants live with fear of deportation every day of their lives. Those with control of state institutions who do not consider undocumented immigrants as worthy American residents in our society, take advantage of their power by instilling fear of deportation. The restrictive federal and state laws towards migration in the U.S. has become a way to keep undocumented immigrants and their families living in the shadows. Arrocha (2013) claims that the paradox of the U.S. migration seems be that our free democratic republicanism is viewed as the land of freedom, equality, and justice. Yet, these undocumented immigrants aren’t treated equally or given the freedom to live in our society without intimidation.
Unlike legal immigrants who have paid their dues and contribute to the economic coffers, illegal immigrants often times receive government handouts without actually contributing to the economy. These illegal immigrants are also more likely to get paid “off the books” which creates a drag on the U.S. economy (Rector). If immigrants are legally allowed to work in the U.S., then I will completely support their efforts to find
is because immigrant workers are willing to do most of the jobs Americans do not want to do. Most of these jobs are manual labor like building houses, construction or other things that fall under that category. I think that people who have made it here and done the whole process legally deserve to be here but the ones who are here illegally need to go back to where they came from. It makes it possible for people to be able to improve their living conditions because if they have their own company or business they can hire immigrants and they will work for much cheaper than the normal American. This also hurts a lot of Americans because they get fired when immigrants are willing to work for wages way lower than what these people are normally used to.
