Institutional Revolutionary Party

that Spain and other European countries had on Mexico’s social and political culture. Throughout Mexico’s existence, it has always suffered from political and economic instability due to corruption. For instance, the one party rule of the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) for 71 years has been an example of the political corruption in Mexico. Although Mexico has improved it’s political institutions in 2000 by electing Vincent Fox, who is not from the PRI and ousting the PRI majority…

The La Raza Unida Party (LRUP) was the first attempt to create a national political party to represent the rights of Mexican Americans. Up until this party was founded, no ethnic group had ever formed its own political third party. From its beginning roots to its significance today, La Raza Unida Party has played a major role in the civil rights of many Chicanos and Latinos alike. La Raza Unida Party was founded in Crystal City, Texas. Jose Angel Gutierrez and Mario Compean founded LRUP in 1970…

Although it is essentially their right, as mentioned in their constitution, many of them do not exercise this right. In part, it is because the corruption is so evident that the people feel their vote is meaningless, and that ultimately political parties continue to hold all of the power. The attempt at a transition has slow, practically stagnant and violent. Protests for non-fraudulent elections for non-corrupt leaders that entails the basic rights of democracy were suppressed and ignored…

Family Family is a huge deal in Mexico. In Mexico, family comes first. Children are celebrated and are more sheltered than in the US. Family structure is more patriarchal as men are the head of the family and women are the caregivers and models of morality and religion. Men and women have a duty to help each other. Interdependence, rather than independence, is expected. In the US, family is usually second to work and are typically smaller. Children are often minimally parented and more…

They define institutional racism as the systematic reliance of the “White” majority on the different types of power outlets such as symbolic, political, and economic power sources to benefit first and foremost from whatever society has to offer(p 344-345). Ian Lopez in…

deaths take place. In the play Othello by William Shakespeare, the death of the character Desdemona serves as the climatic breaking point where pervasive racism and sexism can no longer exist without resulting in detrimental harm to the involved parties. It is Othello’s prideful hamartia that, combined with sexism, is the catalyst that ultimately destroys both his and Desdemona’s life. In Othello, the cast of characters is subjected to the mounting pressures of sexism and racism without even…

Racism Within American Higher Education This history of American higher education is plagued by systemic racism and oppression of many marginalized identities such as Black, Latino/a, and women. African American students were almost entirely banned from American higher education from the creation of Harvard College in 1636 until past the Civil War (Anderson, 2002). Slave states banned African Americans from education using the state law, while free states practiced institutionalized racism to…

Dark Girls discusses colorism and structural racism. Many personal experiences are recounted by African-American women, discussing the pressures from strangers, peers, and even family to be light-skinned. An experiment also showed a little girl selecting the drawing of a white girl for the positive traits (beauty, intelligence) and the darkest girl for the negative traits. A psychologist highlights the fact that colorism is not predispositioned; rather, societal pressures like the media…

The end of school features many exciting new changes for first graders as they look forward to the new year. With the too-hot summer days approaching, my house was the only place in the neighborhood that had a large, above-ground pool. It was kept at a cool temperature and we even had a slide. Needless to say, my house was the neighborhood hotspot for most of the kids. It was simply another early summer day packed with humidity and sunscreen when my best friend’s parents came to pick their…

Social attitudes are so important in our society, they are brought by multiple ways and that can have a big impact overall on an individual 's life. In the past, our social attitudes to this day where looked at as something negative during that time. Attitudes have to do with a positive or negative evaluation of an object person, group, or idea. What is mostly focused on in this paper is the activities of a certain group pf people. This paper will explore a movie that is based on a book titled…