Mexican Cession

The article discussed the recognition that Indigenous Mexican immigrants are a growing population in the US, but are continuously made invisible. The authors claim that it is important to recognize that although there may be a small difference between these indigenous immigrants and other immigrants in adaptation, their diasporic qualities in culture and language make them stand out as their own group and should not be overlooked. Many of the authors’s sub-claims connect the cultural behavior,…

illegal, Mexican immigrant couple. The novel is, in many respects, a commentary on the stereotypes, biases and walls Americans have built to separate themselves from immigration. Boyle uses these real and imagined boundaries to expose the social, physical and economic divisions between Americans and Mexicans in the United States. The most obvious boundary in the novel is the wall and its conjoining gate that is put up around Arroyo Blanco. The wall is built in order to keep out the Mexicans and…

During the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, the African American communities were trying to make peaceful demonstrations and bring awareness about the injustices they were enduring in their daily lives. The civil right marches were a way to come together as a community, to protest peacefully, to change the laws about equality, discrimination, and segregation. During the demonstrations, there were times violence would break out, then rioting would ensue which caused many injuries and…

the middle and being judged upon. Due to their Mexican legacy, culture, and the geographical area in which they lived, both Gualinto and Henry encountered some form of discrimination and mental anguish…

Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East were embroiled in the destruction of World War I, Mexico was undergoing a period of transition of its own in the form of a socio-political revolution. The following paper examines some of the characters of the Mexican Revolution, their actions, and how the United States’ reaction and World War I-era attitudes helped shape the power dynamic on the North American continent Mexico: The 20th Century’s First Revolution Between 1884 and 1911,…

what ethnicity do you identify as? Mexican and white, biracial. Have you ever faced discrimination or challenges because of your ethnicity? Not specifically because of how they look, but definitely on how they fit in. People put them in boxes and say they are not all white or not all mexican. Do you feel you face stereotypes of your ethnicity? They feel they are always stereotyped because they have lighter skin, that to everyone around them, they aren’t mexican enough. What cultural…

Houston. This is in no way bashing the city in any way but particularly just throwing my two cents to grow up as a gay Mexican American and discovering the gay community. The smell of liquor and stench of sweaty people around you isn’t the combination that is flattering. I didn’t grow up with the same freedom most of this people did and is was quite clear. I grew up in a Mexican family with the belief of my mom weighing down on us like an iron fist. It wasn’t that she was evil but she tried to…

about her country. In the same side of the portrait she shown the moon in the cloud too which is illustrate depression. Also she shown the flowers, wild plants, and some corn are on the floor which the natural, colorful, and beautiful spirit of the Mexican country. On the on the right side Frida represent the United States with other interpretation. For instance the sky is covered by smoke from the from the factories…

The conflict which would become known as the Water Wars, began as a series of public meetings held by local professionals and peasant irrigation farmers in Cochabamba. Initially, these meetings garnered little media attention and were ultimately ignored by the Bolivian government and Aguas del Tunari. However, as the public became more aware of the impending price hikes, the resistance picked up support from water cooperatives, neighborhood associations and most significantly labor unions. In…

I was erasing a part of who I was, trying to change something about me that was me. How could I stop being of mexican descent, the same way a white person stops being white. They can’t. I can’t. Rather than suppress my race, I show feel pride from it, for though my people may not fit society’s mold for an intellectual person, they are intelligent in their own right…