Mexican Cession

“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…

In the movie “the exiles”, Kent Mackenzie illustrates the urban life of a group of young American Indians living in Los Angeles after urban relocation. They struggle to overcome many obstacles and try to survive in the city, yet they all hold their own visions for their city life. Many American Indians left the reserve, hoping to find a good job, a nice home and education for their children (Rocky Mountain PBS). However, when they arrived at the city, they found that everything they knew was…

clerk will not look at her, but when white, blonde girls walk in, she goes immediately to help them (Garcia, Pg. 92). Furthermore, when Hispanics are referred to as “Mexicans”, they believe that means a skin color (Garcia, Pg. 95). A good example of this is that one young Hispanic overheard some white girls saying they do not like Mexicans, and the reason she gave for being hurt was that she cannot change her skin color (Garcia, Pg. 95). Being racially identified…

yourself. The agency I am working at IDEA there clientele base provides a wide range of diversity. Although I am mainly at the Brighton location, once a month I do hours in the Denver office. The majority of client’s I deal with at the agency are Mexican American; African American and European (White), Asian and a few clients that represent the LGBT community. My experience so far has been positive; the majority of clients are polite and receptive about receiving treatment. The clients I am…

Orientation Identification: The terms “Hispanic” and “Latina/o” are normally interchangeable, even though most governmental and scholarly documents have a preference for the use of “Hispanic”, while religious affiliations and grassroots incline to the latter one[ Suzanne Oboler, Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995), 3.]. In the past decades, those terms have come into general use in the…

Background The Mexican Revolution, which began in 1910, was used as a chance to end dictatorship in Mexico and established a constitutional republic. This was a time of political and social unrest in Mexican history. It began with efforts to overthrow president Porfirio Diaz. A number of groups, led by revolutionaries including Francisco Madero, Pascual Orozco, Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, contributed in the fight. During the Mexican revolution, both men and women joined together for their…

family of Mexican immigrants. Muñoz is now an accredited author and professor at the University of Arizona who is known for his short stories and novels. In “Leave Your Name at The Border” Muñoz hears a name at the airport that is said very incorrectly which peaks his interest on who the flight attendant that said it is and after seeing that the woman was hispanic he reflects back on his life of all the different family and friend names and his own name. Through Muñoz’s life many Mexican…

The recent changes made by the 2020 Census, which would move Latinos into the race category, brings forward the discussion whether Latinos should be considered a race or an ethnicity. Even though society projects a single stereotype of what it means to be a Latinos, the Latino community is actually extremely diverse with no physical characteristics bounding them together instead the shared experience of being a Latino is the United States ties this heterogeneous group together. This…

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discourage them from trying. Richard Rodriguez, a Mexican American, was going to a Roman-Catholic church that was a predominantly an Anglo-Saxon race. In the passage, “Aria:…