According to the FBI a man went to about 15 stores including Whole Foods Market and Kroger and sprayed a poisonous mixture on open food. Washtenaw County Public Health Department has received reports about vomiting and diarrhea. The suspect has been caught and admits to spraying a combination of water, hand cleaner, and mice poison. At this time investigators are trying to find out if any other stores have been affected. Officials are advising to throw away any salad bar, olive bar and ready-to-eat meals.…
Penobscot County Health Penobscot county is one of the sixteen counties in the state of Maine. 153,414 out of the 1,330,089 individuals who live in Maine reside in here. Penobscot County is rated worse than the state of Maine in many measures of health. Overall, in health it is ranked 12th. Demographic factors in the county that are related to the heath status include age and race.…
In “Latino communities must see Ferguson’s fight as their own”, the author, Marisa Franco mentions that Latino should see Ferguson as a problem of their own as well. Cases like the Michael Brown shooting gives us awareness of what injustice is. It creates hate for the law enforcements. The black community wanted answers and demanded justice for Michael Brown. For Latino and immigrant communities, they have to deal with the Immigration enforcement system.…
While there has always been substantial immigration from countries around the world, Mexican immigrants dominate the statistics. Between 1820 and 1930, Mexicans constituted over half of the documented immigrations. Like many immigrants before them and certainly after them, they experienced discrimination in the United States. Stereotyping and bouts of xenophobia sparked deadly riots against the most prominent minority group in the United States. Early experiences for foreign-born Mexican immigrants, and even first-generation Mexican Americans, was filled with discriminatory behavior aimed at them by police authorities and other citizens of the country.…
The foundation of this negative stereotype originates from the idea…
Thesis statement would be Over the past years there are numerous encounters of discrimination in the Los Angeles area towards Latinos. Discrimination affects Latinos mentally and physically in several ways. Latinos face racial profiling, verbal and physical discrimination. It's not even their fault that they face this kind of discrimination, but how people in society viewed them as. In California there are laws to limit discrimination against minorities, especially with Latinos in the Los Angeles area, why is it that Anglo-Europeans still discriminate minorities with the laws enforced, not for this to happen.…
This aspect of race can be explained by Fields concept of race as an “ideology,” where race has been maintained through laws, customs, and daily practices to address practical needs. Fields coins the term “ideology” as the “daily methods through which people make sense of the social reality they create” (Fields). Essentially, race became an everyday habit that the people used in order to justify what was going on in the world around them. Consequences of social construction is exclusion. In lecture, Professor Smith used a quote from Robert Miles stating “All instances where a specific group is shown to be in unequal receipt of resources and services, or to be unequally represented in the hierarchy of class relations.”…
The criminalization of the Latino population had started early on in American history and to this day, criminalization of Latinos has not waned, but has grown exponentially. In order to describe and analyze social practices that induce criminalization, looking at historical situations, while comparing them to modern day situations and theory, one can see the exponential criminalization of Latinos, exhibited by a multitude of authors, researchers, and personal experiences. In order to correctly analyze the impacts, while at the same time drawing parallels to modern day criminalization of Latino youth, reviewing historical fact is very important. Starting off a very early form of criminalization; the Vagrancy Act of 1855, more commonly known…
Through My Eyes Throughout my life I cannot say I looked at my parents as immigrants or ever afraid of being deported to Mexico. I am also the youngest of four so I also was not able to see why parents when they were younger and just being in America. I personally did not see a difference in races being born and raised in Dallas Texas, in a little town called Farmers Branch we were mostly populated with Mexican American with a smaller population of Whites, Blacks, and Asian. Although I did get a little bit of racial backlash from my parents towards other races telling me not to talk to white people because they are crazy, but yet are closest neighbors where white and still to this some of nicest people I’ve ever met.…
Throughought the history of the United Sates after the colonization period, minority groups have suffered through appalling circumstances mandated by White Americans. They were targeted for discrimination at early ages regardless of gender, and these acumens varied from verbal confrontations to violent deaths. The reasons as to why minority groups had to undergo these preposterous events were only because of the difference of skin color and distinct language. One specific group that agonized during the 1800’s were Mexican Americans. Before taking over California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico, this was Mexico’s undisturbed territory (1).…
On Friday, April 6, I attended the District of Columbia Superior Court in order to witness the criminal justice system at hand rather than in the classroom or by reading a textbook. I witnessed cases that involved prostitution and cases that involved knives. Moreover, I noticed that the judges were either a man or woman, sitting front and center of the courtroom as they were clothed with an official black robe. I was greeted at the courthouse by security and walked through a metal detector, making sure to take everything out of my pockets. I questioned security on where I can go to watch the trials.…
Imagine starting a new school, in a new state, maybe even a new country. On the first day of class looking around, seeing you 're the only one whose skin color is not white, you’re the only one with dark curly hair, and you 're the only one who “doesn’t belong.” Upon entering the classroom you hear comments like “It 's a Mexican”, “Do you even speak English?”, “How did you cross the border?” That 's what students like Natalia Martinez, Genesis Garcia, Kendrick Rosado, and I had to deal with when starting a new school. Students have taken it upon themselves to decide where someone is from and how they got here.…
Mexico and United States relations are vastly intertwined however; the major interaction between United States citizens and Mexican immigrants began in 1917. The first bracero program took its form under the Immigration Act of 1917. This act allowed immigrants, under various provisions and expectations, to migrate the United States as laborers in factories, fields, and mining. The Act specifically asked for a tax to be paid for every “alien” who is not traveling with parents and is under the age of 16 that enters the United States (1917). A literacy test was conducted for every migrant over the age of 16 in which they had to read 30 words in whatever language they requested (1917).…
In recent years, the criminal justice system has seeped its way into our educational system with zero tolerance policies such as the school-to-prison pipeline. Zero-tolerance refers to punitive approaches that mandate a harsh punishment for all kinds of misbehaviors by a student regardless of the circumstances. On the other hand, the school-to-prison pipeline refers to policies that push our nation 's schoolchildren out of the classrooms and into the justice system. The initial purpose of these actions was to keep schools safe, however, in recent years, it has become a contributing factor to student underperformance. Further, these harsh disciplinary actions are disproportionately targeting minority youth, they’re being excluded and kept out…
There are no facts to support this statement, this is merely an assumption or what a person believes. According to our text “there are many factors that are responsible for prejudice, discrimination, and stereotypes and one group of factors relates to how we cognitively process our information” (Feenstra, 2013). Feenstra states that our processes leads to generalization about people without taking into account the uniqueness of the individual (Feenstra, 2013). There are many consequence of discrimination and stereotyping. Discrimination and stereotyping can cause people to be angry, people are likely to be aggressive after dealing with prejudice.…