Black Hispanic and Latino Americans

Los Vendidos The play written by Luis Valdez, Los Vendidos, an interpretation of how American people see Mexican Americans is played through a drama. A secretary from Governor Reagan, Miss Jimenez, comes to a shop in hopes of finding a Mexican to bring to a gathering to create diversity in the crowd. The “shop” owner, Honest Sancho, is a business man trying to sell these Mexican Americans. Miss Jimenez is looking for a Mexican who is perfect. While Sancho is trying to help find the perfect…

In Ray Suarez’s book entitled Latino Americans he shares the rich history of Latinos who helped to shape the United States. Latino Americans share the personal success and struggles of what it means to be an immigrant and the obstacles they have faced. The book offers a rich history of immigration and certainly reflects present day events of the United States. It tells the story of how people from different regions and continents across the globe came to be one. It also allowed me to see how…

Being a Mexican American, you are born and raised in the United States with Mexican blood. At home you live in your deep Mexican culture and at school you’re surrounded by American culture. With my Spanish not being perfect and neither is my English. Many from my culture judge me for loving the US, and many Americans criticize me for being “too Mexican.” I’m torn between two worlds of a deep rooted culture and a new founded one. I am not from here nor there, I am Mexican American. My life is…

Puerto Rican Spanish came from the American farmers and commoners in the 15th and 18th centuries. The Spanish is spoken in every part of the island because Spanish is their native language. Puerto Rico is also referred as “La Isla Del Encanto” and they call themselves as puertorriqueño or Boricuas. Spanish is the dominant language, but because of the heavy influence America has in Puerto Rico their Spanish is mixed with English or how Latinos call it, Spanglish. Moreover, the Spanish from…

Latino music and artist adapting to fit mainstream Introduction & Background Latinos have had a long history in the United States and the same goes for Latin American music. As history has shown, Latinos in the Unites States have created new music for Spanish speaking countries, for example salsa was created in New York, Tejano music in Texas and many more music styles. While the United States have helped Latin America develop their music, for Latinos from or outside the U.S it’s difficult for…

this decade saw the emergence of the civil rights movement with African-American activists leading the struggle against segregation and Jim Crow laws still prevalent in southern states at the time. After years of legal challenges and peaceful protests, the civil rights movement culminated in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Giving the tremendous achievements of African-American activists during the 1960s, the civil rights movement of this period is…

58.6 million is the number of Hispanics currently in the U.S. (Krogstad, 2017) Although it is a commonly known ethnic group, a vast majority of people probably don’t know the history of the word itself. They might know the definition, but not how it came to be, or what it meant in another time. In this paper I will inform the reader how and when the word Hispanic has changed throughout time. I will do this by first familiarizing the reader to the history of the word, second informing the reader…

and dancing has been a talent i’ve had since I was about 5 years old. I grew up wanting to be like other celebrities seen on television and my parents would see how much dance performance and artists singing would catch my attention. Obviously, Hispanic culture has different traditions because not every culture is the same. For example at age of seven, I traveled to mexico with my dad. It was a normal day like any other. We went out for dinner with our family and I was still considered a baby…

“Orange is the New Black” on Netflix on Monday, November 9th from 12:30 to 1:30 pm. Before watching the episode, I created a chart listing the possible racial-ethnic groups that could appear in the episode. Then as I watched the episode, I took a tally of the number of characters that belonged to each racial-ethnic group and wrote down words that described the characters of each racial-ethnic group and how they were portrayed. While watching an episode of “Orange is the New Black”, I observed a…

Joy for the Movement!, Hispanic Americans: Civil Rights, Social Justice and the Legal System - Where Policy Meets Practice, 14: Dred Scott, Wong Kim Ark & Vanessa Lopez, and How to Loiter. Although these events might seem different…