In the reading, “Who Is a Chicano? And What Is It the Chicanos Want?” by Ruben Salazar we learn that during the era of the Chicano Movement, we see how this specific era has been an influence on ethnic labels and identity of the Chicanos. To begin with during this era a lot of people didn’t know what Chicano meant or who a Chicano was. Ruben Salazar mentions, “A Chicano is a Mexican-American with a non-Anglo image of himself” which means that they pertain and identify to belong to this group because they are nothing like the Anglos, the Anglos where the White Americans (Salazar, 1970).
In the textbook “From Indians To Chicanos”, the author’s, James Diego Vigil, purpose for writing this book is to educate about the history of Chicanos, their experiences, and what changed their lifestyle. James Diego Vigil’s objective for this book is to write about the Chicano culture and how it has changed for ethnic minority groups due to time and different geographical and socioeconomic settings. He also addresses how the Chicano experience motivated Chicanos to dedicate themselves to shape their own identity and refuse to accept outside ideas and theories about them, about their identities. Vigil wants to cover on how this culture change resulted by using two concepts, one being the six C’s and the second being how and why many identities
This book is being written because Diego Vigil wants his audience to know how the Chicano movement is what it is today. He shows us what factors have contributed to the development of the Chicano experience and movement that is still present with us. The book reflects the importance that indigenous people had to the Chicano movement; how the indigenous people went from being Indians to Chicanos. This book is also being written to appreciate and understand the changes that Indians had to adapt in order to become Chicanos and how the natives of a country became targeted or labeled as illegal. An issue that is to be dealt is how Europeans and those who came after them fought against the indigenous majority population over land that the indigenous
The article titled "The New Latino Underclass" by Douglas Massey is an insightful reading that shows the readers just how profoundly discrimination affects the Latinos/Latinas in the United States. It was quite insightful as he stated the history of the discrimination along with the two concepts of "Latino Threat Narrative" and "Hispanic Challenge. " Not only was this article by Massey insightful, but saddening too. I was unaware how harsh the immigration process here in the United States could be especially to innocent people who are seeking safety from their own country. I overall agree with Massey in the sense that we cannot just deport bunches of people, but we must understand they are human.
Journey of Dreams The Gonzalez family go through struggle, endeavor to fight against, and go beyond prejudice, discrimination, in an effort to become socially upward and partake in “The American Dream”. Will they be able to? Even with a multicultural, multiracial, and pluralistic imprint? The Gonzalez family are a Latino family that live in Los Angeles.
"Never Marry a Mexican" by Sandra Cisneros is the story of Clemencia the daughter of a Mexican immigrant. The story demonstrates the culture surrounding Mexican family values, and the hold that still has on Hispanic families living in America. It embraces a stereotypical idea of a traditional Mexican family where the dad works, and the mom stays home and raises a houseful of children. It is the false image that in the Mexican culture a woman having a family is the only thing that counts. While it is based on those core values it is seen from the one person point of view of Clemencia and how those values mold her life.
In this article, Author Gloria Anzaldua writes about growing up in America as a Mexican-American and the struggles that she faced due to the language barrier. Gloria claims that she grew up around a variety of different forms of both Spanish and English, “Standard English, working class/slang English, standard Spanish, Standard Mexican Spanish, and North Mexican Spanish dialect”, are just a few. The language spoken, or combinations of the languages correlate with where the Hispanic person was originally from and where in the U.S. they are now, for example, “Chicano Spanish” is spoken in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. Another focus of this article is how Gloria would be punished in school for speaking in her native tongue and then at home by her for not speaking English properly. Gloria also felt the university she attended made the Hispanics take two speech classes, “in order to get rid of our accents”, she claims.
ETHN 1100 Response Essay #1 For the second response paper, I will be covering the novel “The Latino Generation” written by the author Mario Garcia. This book goes over the generations of Latino Americans, mainly those whose families were immigrants and even farmworkers. For this paper, I will be going over some questions. The several questions that I will be going over include the critical points of the book, does this novel address the intersections of race, ethnicity, class, and gender, what are the impacts does the book have on Latinos in the country, how does the book relate to previous articles and other things that I have read, viewed, and listened to on Latinos, and finally, do I believe that the author found success when it comes to carrying out the
The main characters from the book subtractive schooling are Latino Youth .The high school is Seguin High school located in The End are of Houston. Professor Valenzuela conducted interviews and research on three different groups of student’s immigrants, Mexican American and mixed students who were between grade of 9th and 10th so she could follow them throughout their high school career. She collected data such as interview parents, students and administration. She also did schoolwide questionnaires, collected school data and group/individual interview to help conduct her research.
The Influences of Society The following stories are the perception society has on certain minority groups, defining the way they live in society with the social injustices they encounter. The way they perceives themselves and the way others treat another group of people has been shaped by the injustices in society. The results effects the way of life a group must adapt to and defines who we identify through time, a delusion created subconsciously overtime, for some a sense of entitlement for others a sense of inferiority. Everyone in their daily lives has been shaped by that individual’s society; we adapt to our environment and express the many results of each struggle differently.
The Hispanic community encounters various barriers to treatment that lead them to not seek, drop out, or have less effective outcomes than other social groups when receiving treatment for substance use. Therefore, the access of treatment for Hispanic immigrants, documented or undocumented must improve. This section of the paper will introduce some ideas that research provides on how to improve access of treatment for the Hispanic community. One aspect that needs to improve is to increase the body of research about this population. Research addressing various types of interventions that are effective with the Hispanic population can be beneficial to develop a more effective treatment approach for substance use disorder in the Hispanic community (Alvarez et al. 2007; Amaro et al., 2006).
The increasing numbers of Latino youth who obtain college degrees are become active in politics, with the biggest trend of Latino population is youth and growth we can only hope for even more support in politics. “For the first time ever, Latinos accounted for one in ten votes cast nationwide in the presidential election, and Obama recorded the highest ever vote total for any presidential candidate among Latinos, at 75%” (Barreto and Segura 145). The Latino vote is becoming a crucial element to politics because of their size in population. . “While turnout declined nationally from 2008 to 2012 (by 2%), among Latinos there was a 28% increase in votes cast in 2012 (from 9.7 million to 12.5 million) and Obama further increased his vote share among Latinos in 2012 compared to 2008” (Barreto and Segura 145). In recent polls
One of my biggest supporters are my parents. Their support and conviction about the worth of acquiring an education has shaped my beliefs, values and ambition to continue higher education and use my career in a progressive way to give back to my community. Unfortunately, not everyone had the same support system like I did. Many of my peers struggled whether to continue their education or financially support their family. This is a very dangerous reality within the Latino community that needs to be addressed and resolved immediately.
During the early morning of July 24, 1973, two white Dallas police officers responded to a gas station for a burglary call in Little Mexico, one of the officers thought he recognized one of the Rodriguez brothers or witnesses gave the boys’ description, there are various answers as to how the police came to suspect the two brothers of burglary. Darrell Cain and Roy Arnold, the two Dallas cops, went to the Rodriguez house and apprehended Santos and David Rodriguez, who were twelve and thirteen respectively, and took them back to the scene of the crime. One of the officers, Darrell Cain pointed his service pistol at handcuffed Santos’ head and demanded he confess. Santos denied involvement in the burglary, so Cain pulled the trigger of his
Immigration and The American Dream Immigrants from the mid 19th century and early 20th century consisted of mainly Southern and Eastern Europe, Asia, and elsewhere. Immigrants motivations, experiences, and impacts shaped what an immigrant had to go through being a different person from another country. Although Americans dislike foreigners who came to the United States, immigrants had a role in political, economic, cultural, and social aspects of immigrants because of their motivations, experiences, and impacts in America. New Immigrants did not have it easy and went through obstacles natives, political figures, bosses and others had thrown at them.
