United States communities with Hispanic majority populations

The purpose of the Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) Models of Success study, was to understand the work and contributions of MSIs by analyzing 12 MSIs throughout the United States. • Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) Overview o MSIs emerged in response to a history of inequity, lack of minority people’s access to majority institutions and significant demographic changes in the county (p.5). o These institutions have carved out a unique niche of the nation: serving the needs of low-income…

education after high school. There are many social factors that contribute to this outcome. As many minority students are first-generation Americans, who derive from low-income families, which limit their access to educational opportunities. Being a Hispanic Women, similar to many of these minority students the odds are stacked against me. Along with falling victim to the social expectations of having a child, I also received little educational advice and motivation from family members. As a…

The Three Strike Law is a harsh sentencing law that was put in place to deter repeat felons from committing violent crimes. It went into effect in the early 1990’s with Washington State being the first to pass the law in 1993. More than half of the states in the United states, have adopted similar sentencing laws. California was enacted in March 1994, in response to the murder of two young girls the first, was eighteen-year-old Kimber Reynold who was killed by felon who snatched her purse. The…

Case Study Two Quiz Question Carlos Rivera has a daunting task ahead of him in his first year of teaching. The Midwest community that he is teaching fifth grade at is divided over the influx of Mexican immigrant families that have recently moved into the area. Almost 30% of his students are from Mexican immigrant families and many of them have one or both parents that are undocumented citizens. While Mr. Rivera is of Latino decent and fluent in Spanish; he comes from a wealthy family that…

roots come from the Middle East, especially Israel. The population of Israel has a mixture of native-born Jews, Arabs, and Jewish immigrants. Arabs is the largest group which in 2007 were 1,400,000 people, which accounted for approximately 20% of the population in this country (Ben-Arye, Lev, Keshet, & Schiff , 2011). Even though there is a diversity of culturally and physically characteristics displayed by the distinctive Jewish populations in the all over the world, studies have concluded…

The number of registered sex offenders compared to the number of residents in the city is smaller than the state average. Below is a chart of the crime rate by year. Type 2001 ‘02 ‘03 ‘04 ‘05 ‘06 ‘07 ‘08 ‘09 ‘10 ‘11 ‘12 ‘13 Murders 1 2 2 2 5 3 3 3 1 1 0 1 0 Rapes 11 12 9 18 7 10 14 13 8 12 14 9 10 Robberies 94 83 59 52 65 64 82 71 89 90 101 95 81 Assaults 112…

into many problems from racial segregation to the current oppressive narrative in the United States of America. It is apparent that African American’s face problems much different than their white, majority, counterparts, and that this is due to a plethora of problems. The discussion will be about wealth, crime, and resources, and how political practices have led to problems in these areas inside the black community. The goal is to discuss the emotional, behavioral, economical, and mental impact…

Center, evaluated different community types—including urban, suburban, small town and rural communities—on various measures, including education levels, income levels and racial and ethnic makeup of their populations. What was found in regard to the differences between these communities was that suburban areas, in comparison to urban areas, have higher income and education levels. Large cities, or urban areas, were found to have one of the highest rates (35% of the population) of income levels…

the United States Supreme Court unanimously overturns Pace vs. Alabama (1883), ruling in favor of Loving vs. Virginia. Removing bans on interracial marriage which was said to be in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. In addition to calling marriage a basic civil right, the Court stated, “Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.”…

instigated the course of desegregating American public education, Brown v. Board of Education, in a revolutionary resolution. Another powerful action came from Congress for school desegregation by the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act In 1971. The United States’ government turned actively against school desegregation in 1981 under the Reagan administration, in which, the Justice Department inverted policy on many undecided cases and attacked urban desegregation orders. Congress accepted the…