Latino Americans: Economic/Political Disempowerment Analysis

Latinos (Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban Americans) are the third group of minorities that were excluded mostly by the implementation of an economical/political disempowerment model. For example, Mexican Americans were subject of economical exclusion marked by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848; which was stablish by the United States and Mexico after the war (Week 3, Lect.3). Such treaty appeared to be an economic power for Mexican Americans but with time white Americans diminished this power by not acknowledging the rights of Mexican American that were stablish with this treaty. Thus, Mexican Americans faced theft of their lands by white settlers, property taxes and subsequent loss of their land. The political power of Mexican was linked to their decreased of economic power since they were subject to the …show more content…
This disempowerment was reflected in voting manipulations or restrictions to Mexican Americans’ voting rights (Shaw et.al.2015:118). Another important event that shifted the economic and political powers of Mexican Americans in the state of California was the Gold rush which caused a shift on the majoritarian status of Mexican Americans to a majoritarian status. They were subject to class-race base discriminations, poor educational opportunities, and violence (Shaw et.al.2015:119) All in all, Latinos are a minority group that dispute the arguments that this population is growing in an alarming rate, continues to be discriminated. The racial restrictions that Latinos are force to experience were and still being influenced by the economic/political disempowerment model of