White Hispanic and Latino Americans

Puerto Rican Spanish came from the American farmers and commoners in the 15th and 18th centuries. The Spanish is spoken in every part of the island because Spanish is their native language. Puerto Rico is also referred as “La Isla Del Encanto” and they call themselves as puertorriqueño or Boricuas. Spanish is the dominant language, but because of the heavy influence America has in Puerto Rico their Spanish is mixed with English or how Latinos call it, Spanglish. Moreover, the Spanish from…

Latino music and artist adapting to fit mainstream Introduction & Background Latinos have had a long history in the United States and the same goes for Latin American music. As history has shown, Latinos in the Unites States have created new music for Spanish speaking countries, for example salsa was created in New York, Tejano music in Texas and many more music styles. While the United States have helped Latin America develop their music, for Latinos from or outside the U.S it’s difficult for…

58.6 million is the number of Hispanics currently in the U.S. (Krogstad, 2017) Although it is a commonly known ethnic group, a vast majority of people probably don’t know the history of the word itself. They might know the definition, but not how it came to be, or what it meant in another time. In this paper I will inform the reader how and when the word Hispanic has changed throughout time. I will do this by first familiarizing the reader to the history of the word, second informing the reader…

and dancing has been a talent i’ve had since I was about 5 years old. I grew up wanting to be like other celebrities seen on television and my parents would see how much dance performance and artists singing would catch my attention. Obviously, Hispanic culture has different traditions because not every culture is the same. For example at age of seven, I traveled to mexico with my dad. It was a normal day like any other. We went out for dinner with our family and I was still considered a baby…

Joy for the Movement!, Hispanic Americans: Civil Rights, Social Justice and the Legal System - Where Policy Meets Practice, 14: Dred Scott, Wong Kim Ark & Vanessa Lopez, and How to Loiter. Although these events might seem different…

in the Hispanic-based communities as often times we hear stories of Hispanics who grew up poor. These individuals are usually placed in a category by which it is believed that they are more likely to remain poor if they come from a background of poverty. In an article titled “Why It’s so Hard for the poor to Get Ahead” by Matthew O’Brien, O’Brien confirms that it is hard for those who live in poverty to overcome poverty. This means that Hispanics…

In the 1960’s there where many movements that started to be heard around the U.S. Most notably the African American civil rights movement. This movement sparked a lot of other groups to fight for their equality and rights now more than ever. One of which was the Latino movement also known as the Chicano movement which had been around since the early 1900’s but it was during the 60’s that they made their biggest impacts. These are the events that helped them progress in their fight for rights and…

What does it mean to be of hispanic descent? Being hispanic descent means that your ancestors are from countries once colonized by Spain for example Mexico. “I will say to you that americans of hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had” said by Marco Rubio. This quotation shows that most hispanic parents want the best for their children. They wanted them to have the life they didn’t get a chance to have. Loads of Mexican/ hispanic parent’s move to the…

In the first chapter, she talks about making sense of the mixing of American, African, and European of diverse populations in the colonial world and try to understand the race as a lineage. In the second chapter, Rappaport tries to interpret how the classification of rural mestizos and mulattos emerged out of social networks…

Border: A Phenomenological Study” by Sandra Ixa Plata-Potter and Maria Rosario T. de Guzman, they examine Mexican immigrant parents that confront challenges to help their children succeed in school. Considering that Latinos now make up the biggest minority group in the United States, most Latinos are less likely to complete college. The study presented in this article is an attempt to examine the experience of Mexican immigrant parents as they guide their children to maneuver the United States…