Chicano

MacNeil’s journey, it is appeared that the situation is different and not all American people speak the same version of English or the same dialect or accent. There are many dialects spoken over the united states such as African American English and Chicano English and so on. Also, there are narly two million people in America…

Chicanos and Cubans were classified as lazy, whereas Chinese were classified as drug addicts and part of the inferior "yellow race." This inspired many Americans to see foreigners as a serious danger to their own society and culture, a phenomenon called nativism…

While other ethnicities such as Puerto Ricans and African Americans struggled for their rights during this time, in the Southwest, Chicano civil rights were the most prominently fought for. They were so fought for, in fact, that Hispanics inspired by the motivating speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. began to form organizations to contest the everlasting discrimination they faced and…

everyone is different and he says some do not like gays and will beat him up. Sex is against the rules but 1% of inmates are HIV positive. ("Prison 2016 - Part 1 - Maximum Security." YouTube). Gregory Crowder an inmate in prison he beat a man to death because he wanted to steal his savings to buy drugs. Gregory said he's glad he receives visits from his family even though its two hours on weekdays and one hour on weekends. The officer believes that the visits help the inmates so that they can…

Pratt talk about black not all being from Africa dominant discourse of Bible relative to homosexuality or lust vs. love Native Americans and White people Anzaldua Bilingualism being the other in two different cultures so you have to make your own-because she is not a certain culture fully, she can not be accepted Transculturation-the dominant discourse influences the marginal group it is an autoethnography because she discusses ways that others perceive her - mocks the way they think-invents…

Summer Bridge has been a month filled with so many surprises, I have become knowledgeable in so many issues that are currently occurring, The readings have impacted not only my perspective as a student but also my future aspirations. I resonated the most with the author Yosso, a chicana that reflects on her personality as a light skin, she scrutinizes the effects that the campus environment has in the achievement of every student. Yosso’s main idea throughout her writing is to explain how…

Did you know that Cesar Chavez was the only picker to create an effective union movement? Cesar Chavez was born in Yuma, Arizona in 1927. He had to move from Arizona to California after the drought and Great Depression. Chaves grew up working in fruit and vegetable fields in the great valleys of California with migrants and refugees from the Dustbowl. He and his family had to move based on the season to maintain their occupation. Chaves later tried, as many had, to organize farm workers. He did…

Bill Ayers is to blame for bombing the Pentagon. The Pentagon bombing happen on 1972. everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the pentagon” (Ayers). In this quote Ayers had planned out turned out how he wanted it the United States did not do anything to this guy he basically got away with it. In September 11,2001 in a New York Times interview Ayers told them that he had no regrets about the bombings and that he wished he would of done more. It is unfair how he didn’t go to jail…

different meanings to particular behaviors, the teacher may grossly misinterpret the behavior of a Mexican American child” (100). Drake gives an example of what she means by “misinterpreting the behavior of a Mexican American child” by stating, “If a Chicano child has learned to convey respect by looking down when being reprimanded by an adult, an Anglo teacher who is incentive to cultural differences may force that child to behave in what the child considers an improper and disrespectful…

Rob Baker’s Jimmy Santiago Baca: Poetry as a Lifesaver (Baker 858), writes an interesting story of Chicano poet Jimmy Santiago Baca (who goes by Baca in the story), and the amazing account of a young man’s start at life at the very bottom of society’s ladder, through his many trials and tribulations throughout childhood to his inevitable incarceration in the state’s prison system. Baker takes it one step further in his story as he provides a glimpse of not only the hell this young man must…