Hispanic and Latino Americans

The Hispanic heritage is a beautiful and diverse culture that has brought many beautiful languages, dishes, and art to different countries around the world, but while these elements have helped make many advances around the globe, the treatment of women as simple housewives and second class citizens in Hispanic culture has only helped make backwards advancements by fueling the American media stereotypes of Hispanic women as housewives or maids causing the average Hispanic American woman to…

is not a border state, people from many other countries decide to emigrate to Indiana for a better life. The largest ethnic groups who come to Indiana to live, originate from Asian and/or Spanish speaking countries. “Roughly 1 in 12 Hoosiers are Latino or Asian” (New 1). Typically immigration to Indiana from other countries results from the native countries having poor living conditions, wanting better education and occupations and declining economic systems from these foreign countries;…

whites couldn’t share bathrooms, use the same drinking fountain, weren’t allowed in certain dining areas and the schools were segregated. 50 years later African-Americans now have the same equal rights as whites but are still victims of prejudice. Trayvon martin who was shot and killed by George Zimmerman who is of mixed race (Hispanic and white) was a neighborhood watch captain at the time of the incident in the neighborhood that Trayvon…

a competent social worker with the Hispanic population. I agree that social workers should have an understanding about the culture and the concerns that are facing this population and if the knowledge is not there, then research would be a great resource. Social workers must be culture competent to keep from being a failure to our clients and in our social work careers, we must remember that immigrants are transitioning to this form of life called the American way, so by learning about this…

Black and Latino people are four times more likely to pulled over and interrogated by police, and ten times more likely to be frisked than white people, based on a study done in New York City (11 Facts about Racial Discrimination). Racial profiling is a current and important issue facing minorities that affects their employment, is an illegal and unjust violating civil liberties, is a practice still used by the police. Racial profiling is important because it affects employment and creates wage…

disobedience. I am an Afro-Latina living in the United States, and growing up I have been aware of both the struggles that Hispanics and Black-Americans face living in America. I feel most connected to the civil rights of these minority groups because I myself am one of them. That is why I fully believe in the act of civil disobedience for equality, not only for Hispanics and Black-Americans, but for all minorities in America who have been subject to discrimination or an injustice because of…

Being Mexican American I believed I had a bit of an unfair advantage taking this course. I was looking forward to learning more about my culture and myself but at the back of my mind I believed I would already know some of the material. I am very happy to say that I have learned a lot more than I expected. I have learned a lot about Hispanic cultures other than mine, politics, and economics, and many other topics but off all the things we covered in class the three that most stuck out to me were…

Vilma Socorro Martínez has been one of the major advocates for Hispanic Americans in America. Vilma Martinez was born into a Mexican American family on October 17, 1943, in San Antonio, Texas. As a child, she grew up in a segregated world where the climate of racial hostility attempted to limit her in her goals. However, growing up in this atmosphere only encouraged her further. At the age of 15, she volunteered for a firm of a local Hispanic lawyer, Alonso Perales, which motivated to pursue a…

Latino Tokenism It is unprecedented Latinos/as are now the largest minority group in the United States, soon to be the majority of the across the country, meaning the future of this country is in the hands of the Latino people. As mentioned in Twenty-first Century Dynamics of Multiculturalism Beyond Post-Racial America, “All the talk of many years about the sleeping giant, well, he’s awake and running now… Eventually, I’ll be able to interview the first Hispanic president of the United States…

people who belong to a social group having a distinctive culture such as nationality, religion, regional structure, heritage, and language. The ethnic groups’ based on the census.gov classification are whites Americans, African Americans or Blacks, Hispanics or Latinos, Asians, Native American and Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders, and people of two or more races. I personally finding confusing when I have to complete ethnicity because it does not include all races…