Latinos In Action was founded by Jose Enriquez. LIA is a class/program set up for junior high and high schools to support Bilingual Latino students in utilizing their language skills to support their schools, districts and communities. The class provides work experience for Bilingual Hispanic high school students to serve as role models for younger Hispanic students by tutoring at local elementary schools. LIA students learn to have the self-efficacy to persist through their educational goals and become contributing members of their communities. The mission of Latinos in Action is to help students graduate from high school and to empower Latino youth to be college and career ready through culture, service, leadership, and excellence.…
(Rohter, 2013:4). Latinos/os ever expanding population across the country take influence of politics and electing officials in the United States. “Politically, the 2012 U.S. presidential…
Berman takes time to dissect the events that follow the 2008 election. Berman states that after former president Obama’s success, “three hundred and ninety five new voting restrictions were introduced in forty nine states” (18). These laws made efforts to vote increasingly difficult. Some of these laws include: government issued voter identification cards, purging voter rolls, and curtailing early voting. Berman argues that these aspects were targeting young people, African Americans, and women.…
In America, citizens are given the right to vote and elect officials into office. At the age of eighteen, young adults are allowed to register to vote and take part in elections. Not all citizens participate and decide to vote. When Americans decide to exclude themselves from voting, they initially are negatively impacting society. Thomas Patterson takes his stance on this when he wrote “The Vanishing Voter”.…
One outcome repeated often as a result of the diversity present in Texas’s population is its foreseeable affect on political policy and partisanship. A drastic growth in any particular race or people group is reflected in the political culture. The most recent growth can be seen in the Hispanic culture and populating of Texas soil. Increasing Hispanic ethnic composition in the state of Texas as well as its increase in the United States as a whole has led to politicians seeking to enhance their political doctrines to include core values significant to the Hispanic culture. For example, George W. Bush was Republican by nature but understood the value of the Hispanic vote.…
The Hispanic population is growing exponentially and both the Democratic and Republican parties should be targeting their efforts towards the Hispanic population. The US Census predicts that by 2044 the Hispanic population will exceed the Caucasian population in America. Although Joe García argues that the Hispanic vote is available to either party and cannot be undermined , the Hispanic population is not politically active enough to make a difference in the polls due to a lack of resources, civic skills, and motivation. The growth of the Hispanic population should mean that the amount of resources available to Hispanics is growing as well, but the political resources available to their population is not equivalent to the resources available to the Caucasian population.…
With a government elected by its citizens and that effects every aspect of our lives from schools to health care to homeland security, voting is an important right in our society. Because of this importance, everyone as a community needs to help increase voter turnout. They can start by urging the governor and Legislature to make voting a value we respect. They can continue to make recommendations to the Legislature in every cycle to improve voter registration and the states’ turnout performance. Another way to help voter turnout would by encouraging others to vote.…
With over 170,000 Hispanic people living in the Oklahoma City metro area, The University of Oklahoma’s Hispanic American Student Association (HASA) strives to welcome members of the community and spread their culture in the meantime (Living in Oklahoma City). The University of Oklahoma’s Hispanic American Student Association focuses on providing an environment in which students from an underrepresented group on campus can come together and share experiences. It also has formed a community in which students can ask for advice and guidance from other students, forming bonds through shared experiences. The organization hopes to expand Hispanic and Latino customs and traditions throughout the University of Oklahoma. (Hispanic American Student Association).…
The recent changes made by the 2020 Census, which would move Latinos into the race category, brings forward the discussion whether Latinos should be considered a race or an ethnicity. Even though society projects a single stereotype of what it means to be a Latinos, the Latino community is actually extremely diverse with no physical characteristics bounding them together instead the shared experience of being a Latino is the United States ties this heterogeneous group together. This understanding of each other on a cultural level and not on a physical appearance level is what makes Latinos an ethnicity and not a race. While the Latino community contains a variety of people with different cultures, customs, races, and nationalities, they are…
The Latino population has been one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the past decades, with an estimate of approximately 60 million Latinos living in the United States. Additionally, the number of Latinos enrolled in schools or colleges have also widened. However, despite the outstanding increase of Latinos enrolled in schools and college, there is one important issue most people ignore, Latinos face an educational crisis that is caused by a number of reasons including economic, social, and environmental influences. Latinos nationally have lower grades and standardized tests than their peers throughout the course of their education.…
The importance of looking at Latino immigrants and their children is not only because they are one of fastest growing populations but also because of the special circumstances that revolve around this population. Latino immigrants (mostly unauthorized) have lower levels of education, are less likely to receive government assistance, are overrepresented in low paying manual jobs, and are more likely to be in poverty. When looking at unauthorized adult Latino immigrants (ages 25-64), 47% have less than a high school education, by contrast, only 8% of native born individuals (ages 25-64) have not graduated from high school (Passel and Cohn, 2009). Of the United States 2008 labor force of 154 million people, there was an estimated 8.3 million…
Acclaiming trust, support, and connections within a community is a vital stage for a citizen wanting to represent a district in Congress. Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government is constitutionally responsible for the drafting and passing of our nation’s laws and practices. The Congressional body consist of two divisions: the House of Representatives and the Senate; the 535 members collaboratively draft, pass, and evaluate policies that have shaped history and will continue to shape the future (English). Though the responsibilities of a Congressman is extensive, keeping the focus of their community’s future and stability is highly imperative. To be a member of such an impactful branch of our government requires, along with…
Political Power Our text identifies multiple contributing factors that limit the political power of Latinos as a group in the United States. However, there is a strong argument that non-citizenship and poor English, language skills are the two main contributing factors. Major political parties are recognizing the weight the Hispanic population could carry in an election, and have begun to reach out to members of the community. A multilingual ballot is now required by Federal law in districts who have at least 5 percent of the eligible voting population that do not speak English.…
What is most puzzling is Frymer’s reluctance to apply his theory to the growing Hispanic US citizenry saying only “Mexican Americans are an interesting group with regard to electoral capture” (Frymer 185). Interesting? More like critical and vital.…
The United States is a country made up of countless ethnicities and nationalities from different parts of the world that have different cultural beliefs, traditions and customs. The rich culture of the U.S. mainly stems from immigrants, individuals who have migrated from another country. With any change there is struggle, especially when it comes to adapting to the culture of a new country. Amongst many immigrants who struggle to adapt to the American culture are those in the Latino Community. According to the U.S Census Bureau (2010), about 52 million Latinos /Hispanics live in the United States, which makes them the largest ethnic minority group living in the United States.…