Dehumanization In America Analysis

Putting our part on this earth. In the early 1900 until the early 2000 century, the poems and song like “Federico’s Ghost,” “We’re Caffeinated by Rain Inside Concrete Underpasses,” and “Power in a Union.” Dehumanization at the time is still around and is depicted mainly in America. In the poems and the song dehumanization is depicted when Americans use cheap labor to exploit folks to turn against each other. When the folks are dealing with racism, personal disappointment and fear. In Federico’s Ghost,” Martin Espada a Latino poet introduced to political activism at an early age by his father. In “We’re Caffeinated by Rain Inside Concrete Underpasses,” Sesshu Foster was taught composition and literature in East LA and is also an American poet and novelist. In the …show more content…
Knowing that folks need any amount of money they can get to survive, they use cheap labor. When a crime like what had happen to Federico no one wants to really take action. The song states, “Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers ' blood. The mistakes of the bosses we must pay for.” No action is taken place because of fear. American give folks from any race fear of being sent back to where they are naturally from. In fact,” first threatening to call immigration,” Americans think that’s the best solution to solve any situation. When all “brown” folks want to do it making a living to try to get by. Give their children a better future. Mexicans are hard workers they will do any job. They mostly do jobs that white folks don’t want to do. Jobs that have to do with getting dirty. For example, “We gripped rusty clippers, clipped leafy hedges, ground sharper edges. We hauled their sack of leftover leisure that rotted at the curbside.” Mexicans do all that just because white folks don’t want to touch a little dirt. The song says, “From the cities and the farmlands to trenches full of