Chicano

graduate with a bachelor’s degree and 10% earn a professional degree. As a result, clearly, the United States has failed to equally and equitably educate all children along the educational pipeline. Therefore, at any given time, in the pipeline Chicano students tend to not perform as well in contrast to whites and attain less than any other racial or ethnic groups. Tracking, a schooling phenomenon ingrained in mostly all the schools across the U.S. designate students into distinct educational…

Vanessa Ayala Instructor Dr. Gutierrez Major Assignment 1 10 October 2016 Women’s Spiritual Interconnection With Nature Ana Castillo’s novel, So Far From God, chronicles how a Chicano family, its neighbors, and their community confront and overcome the obstacles of racism, poverty, exploitation, environmental pollution, and war in the terrain of New Mexico. Ana Castillo depicts the earth-binding consciousness of Caridad through her intimate, spiritual practices and relationship with nature in…

Civil Liberties are privileges designed to protect citizens from the government. These liberties are accompanied by the Bill of Rights and were aimed to prevent the government from becoming too powerful. Whereas, Civil Rights are targeted towards minorities and protect individuals who continue being discriminated from other individuals. Both Civil Liberties and Civil Rights have been a struggle to achieve, these two are constantly evolving. Civil liberties have evolved since the existence of…

are all we have, you see… you don't have anything if you don't have the stories” (Leslie Marmon). Storytelling plays a major role in sharing the importance of series of events that have occurred to the narrator. Richard Rios, a retired English and Chicano Studies teacher wrote Songs From The Barrio: A Coming of Age in Modesto, CA. In the book, the author argues that he lived in a concoction between two different cultures his entire life. In his book, he discusses how this has shaped him to…

immigration. This was around the time President Obama was elected into his second term in office and immigration was increasing. Michael Jones-Correa, the professor of government at Cornell University, and Louis Mendoza, chairman of the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota, wrote articles in New York Times about the subject. Mendoza’s purpose was to persuade his audience in his article “No Longer an Outsider, but Sill Distinct”. On the other hand, in…

When he collapses at a dance, a Chicano teacher assumes that he is drunk, saying, “What’s that boy been drinking? I know all about these Indian kids. They start drinking real young” (Alexie 111). For no other reason than Junior’s Indian heritage, the teacher immediately assumes that he…

Deena J. Gonzalez’s essay and Rolando J. Romero’s essay concern themselves with similar topics, but each one has a different approach to delivering their arguments and organizing their ideas. While Gonzalez takes a more individual approach to analyzing the truth behind Malinche, Romero compares her to La Virgen de Guadalupe. Both of these writers take an approach that sees Malinche as someone who got the short end of the stick. In Gonzalez’s essay, “Malinche Triangulated, Historically Speaking…

Zachary Calderon CHST 101 7 July 2017 Professor Carrasco Critical Essay 1 When discussing the Azteca, it is important to note their assemblage of one of the greatest engineered civilizations, which led to a daunting and wholesome empire in just a short two hundred years. The Azteca are to thank for many of the world’s inventions that include grand temples, palaces, and more specifically, the aqueduct. However, upon the arrival of the Spanish invaders, the Azteca were unable to fathom…

Being raised in the United States, many Mexican Immigrants face cultural and social difficulties. Gloria Anzaldua exposes her feelings in her short story “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”. Growing up in the Rio Grande most of her work was influenced by the borderlands which refers to the border between Mexico and United States. “Borderlands,” she writes, “are physically present wherever two or more cultures edge each other, where people of different races occupy the same territory” (Anzaldua 205). The…

Americans will trace their descent to ‘Africa, Asia, the Hispanic world, the Pacific Islands, Arabia – almost anywhere but White Europe (Takiki 2).’” It goes on illustrating about the struggles and stereotypes of the spectrum of races such as the Blacks, Chicanos/Hispanics, and Asians. In Lazarus’s poem, it emphasizes that Americans…