Black Hispanic and Latino Americans

experience of Latinos compared to that of Caucasians (Blanche Diaz, Barretto, & Cermak, 2015). The ASD literature continues to pertain predominantly to Caucasians even as Latinos now make up the largest ethnic population in the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). Although ASD is more prevalent among Caucasians than Latinos, at 15.8 per 1000 versus 10.8 per 1000 respectively (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014), the lower prevalence among Latinos is not…

“No one stays in McFarland unless they have to. There ain’t nothing American dream about this place.” – Thomas Valles, McFarland High School Cross Country Team Member (Ciaridi & Caro, 2015). The idea of an “American Dream” varies by person, based on their interests, age, residence, status in life, economic status, and much more. The “American Dream” of someone with a high paying job in New York City most likely will be much different than that of someone unemployed and living in a suburban city…

Hispanic americans today are in a unique position in the United States’ economy. There are many factors that constitute their wellbeing, which is defined as “the state of being healthy, happy, and wealthy” (Xiao, 2015). I think it is important to understand these factors and their effect on this ethnic group as well as the rest of the economy. It is especially significant to know the economic status of Hispanic Americans based on income, as they make up a large portion of the population and…

Hispanics are a significant part of the United States. Through their traditions and culture, they have been easily differentiated. Hispanics include the Mexicans, Cubans, South or Central American as well as Puerto Rican. More clearly understood, Hispanics are people with links to the Spanish culture and heritage. These people are often linked with the colonization in United States under the Spanish empire (Carrasquillo, 1991). The issue focused here is the Hispanic culture, their tradition…

Latino Stereotypes in a modern era “Television is a popular and powerful medium that both imitates and influences culture.” (Pahad et. al). Modern Family, an ABC TV show, that portrays 3 “atypical” families, subliminally contributes to a fixed image of racial/ethnic groups. ABC’s sitcom, evidences use ethnicity based theories of race, to create stereotypical characters and generalizations of different groups of people, that can become memorable to an audience. “The term Latino is operationalized…

Aatia Jaine Davison Reading Reflection #1 “Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster” by Mitsuye Yamada begins with an anecdote. In the middle of one of her lectures on Ethnic American Literature, a white student pipes up to expresses her resentment toward the apparent “militant tone” of one Asian American writer’s works. This student claimed to be fed up with being blamed for the oppression of all minorities just because of the color of her skin. How was that fair? She certainly didn’t ask to be…

father told me the plan he had in mind for us as soon we wake up the next day. I couldn’t sleep when I saw it for the first time and honestly it was too beautiful. It was green with some metallic colors on it and it has some stripes on the handles and black tires. I am talking about my first bicycle that my father gave to me when I was 5 years old. After we woke up, we went to a close park where we always hang out with family and friends and I was ready to ride my bike. I had my gloves, helmet,…

In the Hispanic Challenge, Samuel P. Huntington makes a passionate argument about why he believes that Latin@s, particularly Hispanic immigrants pose a threat to the American culture. This argument focuses on separating Latin@ immigrants from other immigrant groups and then examining how they pose a cultural, social, and political threat to America. Although Huntington provides a compelling argument, his simplified understanding of the Latin@ identity and a unified American culture led him an…

In the article “The Day of the Dead: How Death Became a National symbol” Stephen T. Woodman discusses death within Mexico and how it became an important symbol in Mexican culture. Woodman discusses the four main reasons as to why death is such and important symbol in the Mexican culture. The first of four reasons Woodman shares is based on religious beliefs of pre-Conquest Mexico. This is when the Aztecs made human sacrifices for the Gods in order for the earth to be born and to maintain the…

HOW HISPANICS OVERCAME THE CHALLENGES The persistent inflow of Hispanic immigrants threatens to divide the United States Of America into two people, two cultures, and two different languages. Unlike the past immigrant groups, Mexicans and other Latinos have not not assimilated into mainstream U.S. culture, forming instead their own political and linguistic enclaves from Los Angeles to Miami and rejecting the Anglo protestant values that built the American Dream. The economic growth of Miami,…