Mexican American

Since the early 1970’s 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…

immigration policy initiatives” (“Mexican Immigrants Crossing the Rio Grande”). Because Geraldo carries no identification and no one knows his lifestyle, the doctors and the police “never knew about … the weekly money orders sent home” and “the currency exchange” that occurs between Geraldo…

Who? Sal Castro When? 1968 How? Being a teacher and mentor to the students, and led the Blowouts on the side What? LA Blowouts (organized walkouts due to unequal school conditions.) With What? Organized students and support, organized via the Mexican American Youth Leadership Conference For Whom? Mostly Latino and Hispanic students who were treated unfairly due to their heritage Why? He wanted to promote the equalization of schooling for Hispanic children, so that they would be given a chance to…

unlawfully ousting Chicanos and inhabitant Mexicans to Mexico. That decades old foul play has offered ascend to activities and associations to uncover these practices and refusal to utilize monstrous assets to bolster the Chicano development. The Raza Unida Party was set up on January 17, 1970, at a meeting of 300 Mexican Americans at Campestre Hall in Crystal City, Texas. Jose Angel Gutiérrez and Mario Compean, who had discovered Mayo (the Mexican American Youth Organization)…

educational elite, those in power have been the dictators of what a quality American education is supposed to be. Although this country is built up of people from nearly every corner of the world, the dominant cultures and practices have always emerged as the standard for what should and would be taught in the United States.…

struggling with identity, equal education, and just plain discrimination. Chicano youth struggle with identity because when they are in the United States they are pressured into giving in into the dominant culture, but they still hold on to what is their Mexican culture. Also, they learn English, learn the “white” history, and when they go to Mexico, they are not treated well because they have assimilated into another culture. Moreover, Chicanos struggled…

Although the rights for Americans of Latin ethnicity have significantly expanded in the past century, there was once a time of remaining inequality in the form of economic opportunities between caucasians and Latino-americans, more specifically in their employment. The beginning of reform for Latin Americans began in the shape of the Bracero program and the Raza unida party which were put into action in the 1940s and the early 1970’s. These significant events provide characteristics that have…

Federico Villalba's Texas: A Mexican Pioneer's Life in the Big Bend is a biography and autobiography about Federico Villalba’s different milestones throughout his life. It also focuses on the lives of his children and wife. The author Juan Manuel Casas brings blissful births, weddings, and family gatherings but, it also touches sadness of illness and loss of life. The book starts off when he is a young man and decides to move away from San Geronimo, Chihuahua in the 1880s. He wanted to start his…

earliest settlers on U.S. soil and the largest new arrivals. Mexican Americans today and face many of the same problems Puerto Ricans Faced. Being native born, immigrants, pioneers and aliens. Escandon is responsible for converting thousands of Indians he called this the Nuevo Santander. After years of taking over land and converting the native Indians. A war broke out over Nueces Strip. This was instigated by President Polk which started the Mexican war. Later on the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo…

is happening at the Mexican-American border is one of those problems that will just continue to grow if not addressed properly. Frey (2013) states that “Fatal shootings by Border Patrol agents were once a rarity… Even more rare were incidents of Border Patrol agents shooting Mexicans on their own side of the border” ( p. 28). Now, “[o]f the nineteen cases we have uncovered over the past two years in which people died at the hands of Border Patrol agents- six (were) on Mexican soil”…