Mexican Drug War

what they would want to work in, because the hardships of the white men would always be blame at the black men. Which is what happened during the great depression for many Mexicans, they were blame for why the Great Depression was happening. Also as Acuna puts it “the ugly head of racist nativism revealed itself” (216). Many Mexicans were deported back to their homeland, even if their children were born in America, it didn’t matter,…

The day of the dead is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico in the central and south regions with wearing wood masks and honoring deceased relatives. 2. Two 50-word short paragraphs about 2 different traditions: one of these traditions is honoring loved ones that passed away. People make this important because people tell stories about their family members. They also make food for the dead and decorate the dead’s gravesites. This whole holiday includes much of honoring the dead and…

the story, " It's that it hurts" by Thomas Rivera, is about a Mexican American boy in the 1950s and 1960s. He got involved in a physical fight and is quite apprehensive about being expelled from school. He yearns to become a telephone operator, contrary to the typical jobs Mexican Americans had at the time, lowly paid agricultural jobs. Now knowing about the high chance of being expelled, he feels even worse. Especially because Mexicans were discriminated at the time period of this story. The…

Fernando Luna Professor Christina Leshko SOC 101-052: Principles of Sociology February 9, 2017 Mexican Tacos: The Americanization of the Taco The Mexican taco can easily be recognized almost anywhere in the world. As tacos have various simple methods of preparation, they have become one of the most loved foods in America. According to Boyer (2014) the history of the Mexican taco has been traced back to the early pre-Hispanic times when Mexico City street vendors would feed urban workers. Tacos…

intersectionality and understandings of “justice seeking” create internal layers and divergences; indigenous movements are not the exceptions. For example, the Zapatista Movement began to protest against the North American Free Trade Agreement and the neoliberal Mexican government; as the movement grew, different groups from over the world supported it. The government sought to…

Hispanic Americans have a wide range of backgrounds and nationalities. Of the total Hispanic group, 60 percent reported as Mexican, 44 percent reported as Cuban, and nine percent reported as Puerto Rican. Mexican immigrants form the largest Hispanic subgroup and also the oldest. Mexican migration to the United States started in the early 1900s in response to the need for cheap agricultural labor. The length of Mexico’s shared border with the United States has made immigration easier than for…

Angel Cinetros: Latino Identity and Political Attitudes The second presentation on ethnic identity was very interesting. It was stated that Latinos possess many Republican traits. They are socially conservative, middle of the road, and ideologically religious. The presentation went on describing how race and ethnicity are the same thing but tend to only matter politically, like on the census. Furthermore, group membership is not the same as identity. People can choose their own identity even…

Chicano is a very common word in a Mexican American population dense area. Many say that the word Chicano is slang for Mexicano, and others say it’s a unique way to call those first-born Americans that come from Mexican parents. To historians and sociologists, the word “Chicano” was used for those who struggled between identifying themselves as Mexicans or as Americans. This word represents everything that we’ve overcome since WWII and before that. This word first came as a movement, The Chicano…

proudly called myself a Mexican-American. I don’t know anymore. I would call myself a Mexican-American such as I did back then, but I can’t. It’s not an answer that is accepted by anyone. Not by my family, my friends or my classmates. I have to choose between these two options, but I am not accepted in either one of them. If I call myself an American, there will people telling me that I am not a true American because my parents are not from here. If I call myself a Mexican, there will be people…

states; hence the movement began. But this movement still limited African American population to the East Coast; it was not until the Great Depression and World War II that pushed this population to migrate further north, Midwest and the West Coast. Until this point in time, there was barely any African American in California. Attracted by the war labor force and the constructed golden image of California, African American migrated to the West Coast and relocated in Downtown…