Mexican American

The topic I chose for my online presentation was the Zoot Suit Riots. The reason why I chose the zoot suits is because it shows that racial tensions go far beyond African Americans, Whites or any other race. While most textbooks and history lessons oversee the struggles that Latinos have had to face. In the early 1940s, many young Latino males wore the Zoot Suits as a statement of their generation. The Zoot Suit are men’s suits that consisted of large high-waisted balloon pants, peg-legged…

greeting is done every time you meet someone, regardless of the length of time you have not seen them. “Present orientation of time is a characteristic of the Mexican American culture and consider the past as being the past and the future as uncertain. The present…

time the Latino criminal stereo type has completely strengthened and evolved. The effects of the stereotypes of Latino criminality began after the Mexican American War in the 1840s. The earlier views of the Latino criminality began when Latinos were struggling to keep the land they once owned. After the United States acquired the land from Mexico, the Mexican people had to learn how to go from communal ownership to private ownership of land. The retaliation attempts at the unjust methods that…

“The Devil’s Highway” by Luis Alberto Urrea reveals a horrific true story of twenty-six immigrants crossing the Mexican border trying to find hope in the world. The Devil’s Highway is 193.9 miles of dry Arizona dessert eating lives of innocents. Luis Urrea describes in depth the voyage of twenty-six Mexicans with the death of fourteen immigrants who devastatingly failed to reach the United States for a better life. The government policies of United States and Mexico has contributed in the loss…

Discovering the English language may be the most crucial experience one can endure as an American citizen. For Helen Keller, Malcolm X and Christine Marín, it was, and there are extraordinary similarities despite their extremely different situations. Helen Keller was an upper class deaf and blind girl living in America during a time where handicapped people were dehumanized and negatively looked upon. She was taught to read and write three months shy of her seventh birthday by…

political world, but socially throughout the entire world. WWII affected America and the American citizens as well; one group I would specifically like to speak about is Mexican and Hispanic groups. These two groups are often time either overlooked and not talked about; but had an important role in the American standing in the second World war. I found a very interesting essay on the reality of Mexican Americans and how the war affected the ethnic group during World War II. The Balch Institute…

multiple issues consideration will be given to the primary issues, challenges, impact to the individual and cultural differences and finally an intervention will be considered. Primary Issue(s) A case study is reviewed of a 45-year-old Mexican-American woman, Lupe, who has presented with depression (Broderick, 2015). She is in a circumstance, which is sometimes called the…

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…

Cesar chavez Mexican americans and the church Final draft In the speech that Cesar chavez presented himself at a mexican american celebration conference talks about of how he sees the church and mexican americans during the strike.The conference was about the annual discussion what is going on in the hispanic/ latino community. Chavez was committed to carry out his movement with no violence toward the crowd who doubted him and movement, sadly others did try violence on them, for…

Misuzu Hatano HIST 2328 Julie Downing. Mexican Americans and the Question of Race. University of Texas Press, 2014. The purpose of this book is to indicate how a generation of Chicana activists of 1960’s to 1970’s, especially Chicana female activists created several aspects of liberation that continues to reverberate recently. In addition to that, the author Julie Downing tries to reveal untold history of individuals, organizations and political formations that encourages readers’…