Black Hispanic and Latino Americans

a first world country with many privileges often times allows society to turn their heads and not see the battles that third world countries have to go through daily. The challenges that people of Latin America face do not directly affect common Americans in fact in ways it benefits them therefore it is easily ignored. Currently there is and has been many social movements and social change in Latin America that are against multi transnational and national corporations. The poor and indigenous…

(people of color) and that they are just seen as their native selves. Espada’s use of irony and satire throughout all of his poems demonstrates the racism that POC’s have to endure everyday. Espada’s utilizes satire to depict the struggles of being a Latino. “You know, the teacher said, a Puerto Rican costume.” (Espada 144) People will not see…

A group of about 15 college Latina girls are gathered around tables paging through Cosmopolitans and National Geographics, cutting, and gluing items onto a blank puzzle piece. Conversation is open and casual, yet central on the theme of “I am.” These girls are part of Colorado State University’s Las Comadres program, which aims to provide a social space for Latina students, as well as support them with their career goals and prepare them for a diverse society. The purpose of this research was to…

Roxanna Rosa is a hard working mother who came to the United States at the age of 17 to work for her family in El Salvador. Since she was the oldest, she was the head of her family when it was about the money issues. Throughout her years of working in America, I have never seen discrimination until she started working at a specific barkery. She faced a lot of discrimination and harsh comments when she started working at this bakery. Panorama bakery is an environment in which it was 90 percent…

In my observation I observed and studied Callie. Callie is a seven-year-old girl in the second grade. Her birth date is January 22nd, 2008. Callie is a healthy young girl who is very athletic and does not have any concerning health issues. Callie is the oldest child in her family. The birth order of Callie’s family is Callie at age seven, Christopher at age six, Grace at age three, and Luke at age one. Callie goes to school every weekday and gets out at 3:00 p.m. Callie in highly involved in…

Being a Latina is more than just a label it is my everyday experience. It is what has empowered me to become the first in my family to graduate both high school and college in the United States. I have experienced what it’s like to be afraid of going outside to an unsafe neighborhood, living with the fear of losing my parents because of their immigration status, growing up without any health insurance and debating at a young age whether I was sick enough to be seen by a doctor. My life…

Brown in the Windy City tells the story of how Mexicans and Puerto Ricans arrived in Chicago. Is a book published addresses the issue of immigration and integration of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans after the Second World War in this city. Fernandez tells the story of the growth of these important communities and their difficult integration in the political dynamics of the metropolis of the Midwest. Figures and anecdotes, the author, who is of Mexican descent, details the problems that both…

backgrounds and gender breakdowns. The class consisted of 19 children; 10 boys and 9 girls. Among those students were six children who were ethnically diverse. Four children are Arabic; one child is from Uzbek, one child from Nepal, and two African American. This shows that 42% of the children are ethnically diverse. Aside from being ethnically diverse, three of these children were English Language Learners. On our first day in this particular classroom, it was one of the children’s first days…

Hispanic Heritage Month As a Hispanic Latino American, I feel very proud that in the United States exists a month to celebrate our Hispanic Heritage. Moreover, to recognize people who has had contributed with important things in this country. In the follow up paper, there is a summary of Celia Cruz’s life and a description about her and what represent for people who knows about her. Please keep reading and find why everybody knows when they hear the phrase “Azucar” (Celia C.). When I was a…

reality. Latin Americans have been concealing every emotion of seclusion behind a story. Time upon time again, behind the stories creativity, laid cavernous meanings; far beyond what the naked eye could interpret. Gabriel García Márquez, a writer who has done an efficient job at doing this, thoroughly explains Latin America’s solitude in his speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In Marquez’s speech, he uses solitude as a metaphor to convey the misconceptions of Latin American Literature…