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Carlos Nicolas Flores a Native-American from El Paso, Texas, is an exceptional professor and writer. El Paso, Texas is where he was born. Shortly after graduating from University of Texas at El Paso with a Master’s degree in English and he became a professor at Laredo Community College. Later on, he decided to take a different route with his degree and began to teach a development of Chicano and Black Literature. That is what steered him towards Dartmouth College in New Hampshire where he began…

rise of genetically modified corn, Jeffrey M. Pilcher covers many topics in his book Planet Taco. The book is primarily on the multinational adaptation and globalization of Mexican food, especially tacos. Americans have molded the traditional Mexican cuisine to one where it would be more appealing to American taste buds. Mexicans, in turn, seek to keep its culinary uniqueness as a landmark for national identity. This is an account of the indigenous taco versus the Americanized taco (authenticity…

“Si se puede!” Cesar Chavez was an American Labor leader and civil rights activist who was originally a mexican american farm worker. He dropped out of school at the age of ten to help his family work the crops. Cesar Chavez did his best to help farm workers in the most positive way he could to make things better. Chavez wanted better working conditions for the hard working farmers in the fields and the right treatment they should be getting for all their hard work. The National Farm Workers…

Manny Hernandez: A Life Comparison Manuel Hernandez, or Manny, is a 14 year old latino boy. He is the main character and narrator of Parrot in the Oven by Victor Martinez. Now, while I’m not a narrator nor a main character, I immediately found myself connecting with his potent personality, and, frankly, his situation. Manny has had a strenuous childhood, never feeling like he fit in. Say that be his family, or community, he has always felt like an outcast. Manny often felt like he had a gap…

6 ZOOM Mexican food vs Tex-MexHistoryIn 1521 Spain invaded Mexico. Spanish foods had the most influence on the Mexican cuisine. They introduced new livestock, such as sheep, pigs and cows. They brought with them dairy products, and garlic as well as many different herbs, wheat and spices. It was at this time that the Mexican people saw the assimilation of many other cuisines including Caribbean, South American, French, West African and Portuguese. Because of this Mexican foods today…

Page 1 of 2 ZOOM Tex-Mex Vs. Real Mexican You know those nights when you crave for mexican, so you go to Taco Bell, well you aren’t getting real mexican food. Tex-Mex food is a combination of Mexican and American cooking. Tex-mex originated with Tejanos, citizens of Texas who are descended from Mexico. These people applied Mexican style cooking to the region. Mexican food is believed to obtain from the Mayan Indians. A lot of Tex-mex food and restaurants can be found in…

The Latino population has been one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the past decades, with an estimate of approximately 60 million Latinos living in the United States. Additionally, the number of Latinos enrolled in schools or colleges have also widened. However, despite the outstanding increase of Latinos enrolled in schools and college, there is one important issue most people ignore, Latinos face an educational crisis that is caused by a number of reasons including economic, social,…

Racial Worldview What is the definition of “racial worldview”? According to Audrey Smedley “racial worldview” is a way of perceiving the world’s people as being divided into exclusive and discrete groups called “races” that are ranked hierarchically. In other words, Smedley believes that people of the same skin color are categorize into a group and a forcefully given a position on the social scale based on their pigment of their skin. So what is race? A simple definition of race would be a…

The definition of language is a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition but for me language has another meaning. For me language is the key to obtain my success. I have taken me four years to learn English and it has been worth it. Being capable to read and write in English has opened many doors into professional and personal opportunities. In Fields of Reading there are…

countless number of varying cultures that we will observe throughout our lives. As someone who was born into a small rural town that lacks diversity, I set out to learn the differences between my culture, and the cultures of the Asian-American and Mexican-American families of today. My culture can be defined as being identified as a middle-class, blue-collar, White American. I was born into a small community whom lacked citizens…