Essays Tagged: "Mexican American"
The life of Luis J. Rodriguez as told through the book Always running: Gang Days in L.A.
ople. Racial profiling hit Luis and hit him hard. Local police would often beat him because of this Mexican-American heritage and gang evolvement. These constant beatings made Luis hate the police. He ... is hate the police. He was scared to even see police in his neighborhood. Many of the people of the Mexican-American community hated the police. They felt they were taken advantage of and mistreated b ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Mexican Americans.
Mexican Americans are also known as Chicanos, Xicanos, Mexicanos, La Raza, and Mex-Americans. While ... gone in and out of fashion since the late 1940s, it is still the preferred identification for many Mexican Americans. The term Mexican American, on the other hand, is commonly used in government docu ... rican, on the other hand, is commonly used in government documents, by the mainstream media, and by Mexican Americans in interactions with other ethnic groupsMexican Americans are a multiracial people ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Mexicans and their soical issues they face. Talk about their history, culture, family life, and social issues. Includes bibliography
on, had become the largest population group in Mexico. Mestizos now account for about 60 percent of Mexicans (Encarta 2002).The history of Mexico revolves around the mixing of numerous cultural, ethni ... civil war, including European intervention and a long domestic dictatorship. The latter led to the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920)--the most important event in 20th-century Mexican history. This revol ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Chicanos' today in america
"Americanize and abandon traditional ways." Still present was a major separation of income between Mexicans and whites, even in the middle class. Chicanas were finally embracing feminist viewpoints, ... nds of Chicanos) to Mexico and handed it over to President Lopez Mateos. This document plead to the Mexican President to negotiate with the United States government to fulfill the terms of the Treaty ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Los Vendidos presentation
CAST: 1 female, 5 malesan Americanized Mexican, during Reagan's term as governor, searches California for the "perfect" token Mexican model ... or the "perfect" token Mexican model to fill the political postThe setting is "Honest Sancho's Used Mexican Lot and Mexican Curio Shop" and The six characters are intentionally stereotypical and super ... luding a farm worker, a street-wise dude, a bandit and a "vendido" (i.e. a sellout, an acculturated Mexican-American. The use of the verb, "vender" in various forms, including the title, changes its m ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
Chicano History
found floating in the water. It turned into a matter of family instead of an immigration issue.The Mexican-American War: The last group to present discussed the Mexican-American War. Between 1846 and ... y deeply. She gave Antonio some of her gift before she died so that she could always be with him.In Mexican Americans/ American Mexicans, there are many struggles within Chicano culture. From the time ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Blauner's hypothesis is explained in regards to the Mexican American immigrants.
esses by which plural societies are formed, contrasts the experiences of Cubans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexican-Americans in terms of their rate of assimilation.Mexican Americans actually constitute a com ... nd that of a man in charge. These characteristics can lead to an overall better quality of live for Mexican American immigrants. Many Mexican American immigrants also place a high value on family rela ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
"Mi Familia"
The movie "Mi Familia" portrays a Mexican/American family dealing with daily struggles of living in a society where their ethnicity is ... an survive the roughest of winds. The characters in the movie can be somewhat stereotypical of most Mexican families, but the central theme of the movie and the characters represented is the binding f ... gle. The INS carted her off during the infamous operation wetback, which deported anyone resembling Mexican descent to Mexico. At the time she is shipped she is an American, pregnant with a child. She ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Mexico's Policies Toward Chicanos
es toward their nationals who reside in another country have not received appropriate attention.The Mexican presidential administrations in power during the period of 1970-1994 enunciated five main go ... main goals regarding the Chicano community. These goals are the defense of the civil rights of the Mexican-origin population in the United States, The enhancement of Mexican culture in the United Sta ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Central & Southamerican History
Rebellious Chicanos
hite culture.Pachucos represented a rebellious youth culture among Chicanos. In August of 1942, 300 Mexican youth were rounded up by Los Angeles police department on variety of charges without any phy ... nant Edward Duran Ayres testified as an expert witness for the prosecution, claiming that people of Mexican descent were biologically prone to violence and crime due to their Aztec ancestry (11). The ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Problems Of Intercultural Marriages
dren in an intercultural situation, they asked someone who is American and is married to a woman of Mexican descent. He responded, "My wife and I plan to teach our children Spanish and it is important ... ponded, "My wife and I plan to teach our children Spanish and it is important that they learn about Mexican culture. The English aspect of my culture will take care of itself." This quote describes th ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Sex & Gender In LIT2110
Stereotypes In the play Los Vendidos, Luis Valdez portrays four different stereotypes of Mexican's. There is the farm worker, Johnny, the revolucionario, and the Mexican-American. Some peop ... merican. Some people would consider this play to be offensive, but Valdez is not necessarily making Mexican's look bad, he is simply giving each Mexican a different personality. These personalities ju ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Turn Of The Century America (1900)
hese issues by telling the story of Catholic white children going to a mining town to be adopted by Mexican-Americans of the Catholic faith. Gordon is looking back at the progressive era from the 1990 ... and Sandel¡¯s article differ in points of view. Gordon¡¯s book focuses on the Mexican Americans that are not a part of mainstream America but she also gives an idea of what mains ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
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hese issues by telling the story of Catholic white children going to a mining town to be adopted by Mexican-Americans of the Catholic faith. Gordon is looking back at the progressive era from the 1990 ... and Sandel¡¯s article differ in points of view. Gordon¡¯s book focuses on the Mexican Americans that are not a part of mainstream America but she also gives an idea of what mains ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Changes in Immigrant Reception as a Factor of Race
Although Mexicans and Eastern and Southern Europeans have historically faced public and governmental resistan ... opeans managed to comparatively integrate and achieve social equality more so and more rapidly than Mexican Americans. This statement may find truth largely because Anglo-Saxon racial nationalist iden ... and a collective economic struggle and rise to the middle class. Today, the degree of reception of Mexicans widely differs among racially and politically eclectic Americans. However, progress and pro ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Hispanics in the United States
ncerns over rights and regulations of Hispanic immigrants. Some of these Hispanic Americans include Mexican Americans, Puerto Rican Americans, Cuban Americans, and Dominican Americans, amongst many ot ... icans, amongst many others.Whether they are American born, legal immigrants, or illegal immigrants, Mexican Americans make up the majority of Hispanics in the United States today. Thus, rather than fo ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
The Diversity of Hispanic Americans
st populous groups of Spanish speaking ethnic groups in the United States are, in order by density, Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban. Then you have Spanish speaking ethnic groups from Central and South ... language, their cultures can be as different from each other as from any other non-"Hispanic" group.Mexican AmericansThe diaspora of Mexican Americans encompasses many avenues, from those who found th ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Maternal Perspectives and the Affect on Childhood Obesity in the Mexican American Population: An Article Review
�PAGE � Maternal Perspectives and the Affect on Childhood Obesity in the Mexican AmericanThrough research conducted in the San Antonio, Texas area, Martina Raquel Gallagher ... Raquel Gallagher studies and presents how maternal perspectives on lifestyle habits put children of Mexican descent at risk for obesity. Obesity is a national problem that often begins in childhood an ... hood and carries over into adulthood (Must et al., 1999). This is true even more so for children of Mexican descent. In 2004, of children ages 2-6, 32.6% of children of Mexican descent were overweight ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters
Legal Alien
tion from "Chants," is a short free versed poem written by Pat Mora. The poem explores the lives of Mexican-Americans and the cultural tension they have to face. The poet discusses a bi-cultural perso ... etween the fringes of both worlds" (line 18) notify the readers that although the speaker's race is Mexican and his nationality is American the speaker isn't fully accepted by both races. Mexicans vie ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
chaves ravine
idemics, Chavez Canyon, that was it was called, was a place to a hospital for Chinese Americans and Mexicans Americans suffering from the disease. Although the lands proximity to downtown Los Angeles ... ed into Chavez ravine and began blasting into the hillsides. By the Early twentieth century a rural Mexican American community had taken ground on the hill land surrounding the ravine. Plenty of open ...
Subjects: Art Essays