Mexican Cession

to realize that other racial groups are subject to prejudice especially right at our southern border. The native people of Mexico are suffering through a systematic form of racial discrimination, but they do nothing to fight back for their rights. Mexicans native and other claim that racial discrimination is not a problem in their country at all even though there is a large group of people being denied basic rights such as education, minimum wage, and health care. Racism in Mexico will continue…

gender. Class: Lower Race: Haitian American (migrated to the U.S. in 2000) Gender: Male I will be calling my first interviewee Jason. Jason migrated to the U.S. in 2000 he came to American for a better opportunity. Class: (Lower) today (Higher) Race: Mexican American Gender: Male I will be calling this interviewee Paul. Paul was born in the U.S. he owns his own landscaping business. What role has class, race, and gender played in their lives? How do you see these stratifies as playing a role,…

out to me the most was Gustavo “Gus” Garcia. Gus Garcia was a Mexican-American lawyer who attended school at The University of Texas at Austin. In that institution he was the captain of the debate team and a successfully academic student and eventually became a civil rights lawyer (Allsup, 1982). When World War II was occurring Garcia was drafted for service as were many other Mexican Americans. The problem with this is that many Mexican American men had volunteered or had signed up to serve…

Culture is all around us. From what we wear to what we eat to how we speak. You can try to hide your connection to culture, but it will always find you. When searching for a definition to culture I feel Texas A&M University did an amazing job. Their definition states: “A culture is a way of life of a group of people—the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation…

The production of "Esperanza Rising" by Lynne Alvarez was an interesting adaptation of the novel. The stage is set in Mexico during the 1930 's and is about a young Mexican girl named Esperanza. She is the only child of a wealthy landowner and therefore spoiled. During the beginning of the story, everything is business as usual for Esperanza and her family, until tragedy strikes. Bandits kill Esperanza 's father and his wife is meant to inherit the estate, but women were not allowed to own land.…

to the U.S at a very early age. This distinction is important to note because I face discrimination on both sides of the Mexican-American border. There are many Latino stereotypes in the U.S; I am listing the ones most prevalent to me. Latinos are gangbangers, they are lazy, they are undocumented immigrants, they are gardeners, and they are also hardworking. Native Mexicans hold their own stereotype of Chicano Latinos, which is that they are rich and snobby. I should also address the two…

white American and my own personal experience with racism. However, through my spiritual journey, I have learned to look at the individual character and not a race as a whole. Since reading the required books for this class and learning how the Mexican people have been treated by the US, I have again started to feel hatred towards white America and white skin people in general. I have to ask God for forgiveness. It is hard thinking that people hate, oppress, and think they are superior to…

At times, many of us are unaware of when stereotypes become our perspective. A lot of the times we do things without a thought. We can stereotype people without even noticing that we are doing it. Stereotypes can be presented to us in a statement or a movie, and we may not even notice it is being presented to us. We tend to take ideas as they are, without really using our critical thinking skills. A big part of this country is movies. When movies first came out, everyone wanted to go to the…

countries around the world, Mexican immigrants dominate the statistics. Between 1820 and 1930, Mexicans constituted over half of the documented immigrations. Like many immigrants before them and certainly after them, they experienced discrimination in the United States. Stereotyping and bouts of xenophobia sparked deadly riots against the most prominent minority group in the United States. Early experiences for foreign-born Mexican immigrants, and even first-generation Mexican Americans, was…

practices but used as alternative therapy. One of the most important Mexican American cultural practices that influence health care is called “curanderismo” or folk-healing. Several research studies shows that Mexican American culture used these practices consistently with conventional medicine, but tends to settle for modern medicine if illness is chronic or serious (Padilla & Villabolas, 2007). Apart from folk medicine, Mexican American culture also have set of beliefs or rituals that is…