Hispanic And Hispanic Racial Discrimination

In 2004, the United States Census Bureau (2015) indicated there were approximately fifty-four million Hispanics in the United States, making up seventeen percent of the population. Hispanics who migrates to other places, whether it’s a country, state or city are faced with challenges; one being discrimination.

Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo and Mariela M. Páez. Latinos: Remaking America. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1997.

In America today, we are faced with several different minority groups arriving to the United States. The most common of all minority groups are the Hispanics. America is known for their language being English, but as the year's approach, that language has faded and a new face in English language has taken over, it's called Spanish. We as the people of America have become controversial over this major change, and due to that major bilingualism and political movements that have occurred from the government to the education departments. In this paper, I am going to talk about the four most common Hispanic groups in our country today and the political, social, linguistic, economic, religious, and familial conventions and/or statuses that they

The term Hispanic means people who come from a country where Spanish is spoken. And the term Latino means someone who comes from Latin America.

Hispanics or Latinos are defined as a people of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South or Central American, or other Spanish speaking culture. This term “Hispanics” was created by the U.S. federal government in the early 1970’s to refer to Americans born in a Spanish speaking nation or with ancestry to Spanish territories. Hispanics people are vibrant, socializing, and fun loving people. Among various facts associated to this culture is that they have a deep sense of involvement in their family traditions and cultures.

Juan Gonzalez uses Chapter 12: “Speak Spanish, You’re in America!: El Huracán over Language and Culture” of his novel Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America to introduce a truly polarizing argument that has plagued the Latino community in the United States of America. Gonzalez is quick to point out that English is the common language in this country, though he is quicker to note that it should not necessarily be so. This author is so incredibly biased in this chapter that it is nearly impossible to disagree with his opinion without feeling like one is completely shutting out the entire Latino community. However, speaking as a member of this community, perhaps it is this unique insight that allows for not only a contending opinion, but also the framework to make the opinion relevant. Gonzalez makes brash claims with little supporting evidence and relies heavily on argumenta ad passiones to manipulate the reader’s emotions instead of focusing on rationalism and sound judgment. Quite possibly, it was the abundance of this logical fallacy that made it difficult to sympathize with his argument; though, it lays the basis for this chapter analysis.

Currently within the United States one of the fastest growing minority population (Schwartz & Scott, 2012) is the Latinos. In 2010 Census Bureau Brief ( Ennis, Rois-Vargas, & Albert, 2011) it stated how an estimated 15 million Latino individuals were living within the United States, which is approximately about 16% of the entire U.S. population. There is one big problem with addressing the Latino population, and that is the family patterns are either misrepresented or not properly understood, due to the label of Hispanic and Latinos being placed together. These two groups may share the same spoken language of Spanish and have similar cultural ancestry but the diversity among Hispanic and Latinos (Schwartz & Scott, 2012) make generalizations about their lifestyles difficult. The term Hispanic came to be used in the 1970’s by government officials (cdc.gov, 2011) in trying to provide a diverse label on this population that had connections to speaking Spanish and the Spanish culture. Latino became more of a termed to be used when distinguishing between Mexican (Hispanics) and Latinos who descendants from Latin America such as Cuba and Puerto Rico.

At some point in life, every individual has been treated like an outsider. It occurs

There are many stereotypes and racist remarks in today’s world. This essay will specifically be describing the discrimination towards teenage Hispanics. Many Hispanics are discriminated in today’s society. Discrimination and racism can emotionally scar a person. Many Hispanic teens dropout out of high school due to discrimination. Other Hispanic teens gain depression due to discrimination. Several other Hispanic teens even share their own personal stories about themselves being discriminated. Discrimination is an atrocity and this essay will be more of an informative essay to explain the barbarity of racial discrimination, specifically towards teenage Hispanics. I have a personal experience towards this topic so I will be sharing my own personal story towards this issue. Discrimination has become a grave dilemma and there has to be a solution to end this reoccurring situation. Many people see the crimes of racial discrimination occurring right in front of their faces, but they do nothing. Those people who just watch and ignore this grave problem are supporters for this issue because instead of putting an end to racial discrimination, those people just let it occur as if it is normal. I always question myself the same questions repeatedly; who has the right to look down upon a different race? What makes one race superior to another? Why is racism an issue? These are the most interesting questions to me, which makes a person think of today’s

Both Linda Martin Alcoff and Sally Haslanger try to evaluate specific terms which have significant meaning in our society. Both of their works explore the issues of race and ethnicity. Alcoff uses experience and ideology to find the meaning of a Latino identity. In contrast, Haslanger tries to define what we want race and gender to be for ourselves and society. Based on Haslanger’s explanation on the difference between race and ethnicity, the term Latino falls under an ethnic umbrella.

Culture shock: what white America feels after reading this book. Juan Gonzalez’s Harvest of Empire encases what most Latinos want to say, but always gets muted for. The empowerment behind the title is such an intricacy yet soft to the touch. This book will make any reader reconsider about everything they’ve learned from any culture. This book covers most atrocities committed to Latin America by Spain and the US. The factor of white hegemony, hunger for power and possessions, discrimination, conquest, and the terrorization by Americans in Latin America makes this book difficult to read as a Latina. The limelight of this book is in Puerto Rico, Cuba and Mexico because how relatively close these three countries are in relation to the US. Gonzalez’s main argument of this book is to demonstrate to America how Latino presence is becoming a commonality and it will be normalized. Furthermore, it talks about the second wave of immigration and how pivotal it has become. Finally, he discusses

This paper discusses the immigration of Hispanics to the United States in which they faced prejudice, segregation and racism. We will discuss such topics as dual labor market, affirmative actions, quotas, instructional discrimination, reverse discrimination, glass ceilings, glass walls and glass escalators. “Hispanic workers are among the fastest growing segments of the U.S. labor force,” said Jesse Caballero, Senior Career Advisor for empleosCB.com, a subsidiary of CareerBuilder.com focused on online job search for the Hispanic community. “They are also among the two groups reporting the highest levels of severe discrimination in the

Conversely, some participants explained that they have experienced discrimination even in a predominantly Latina/o community. With regard to this finding, perceived discrimination in a predominantly Latina/o community, there may be two possible explanations. First, intergroup contact theory argues that prejudice is reduced when there are positive relations between groups. However it is possible that the intergroup contacts in a homogenous community are not positive interactions that promote decreased prejudice. Second, some of the participants in this study explained that they have perceived discrimination from other Latina/os, This finding consistent with previous research that has noted the existence of within-group discrimination in the

Racial Identification determines who has societal privilege and who does not. Race science develops as a method of separating groups of people in society during Pre-Colombian times. Those with more affluence in politics and the economy do not want to associate with those of less affluence, creating a divide between “them” versus “us”. However, Latin Americans perceive racial identity with more ambiguous terms, allowing one’s skin pigmentation to determine their social status. The reasons for such an altered definition of racial identity can be clearly identified in Hispaniola. The history European Imperialism and African slavery in Haiti and The Dominicans Republic must be viewed side by side, not separately from each other, for one country’s greatly its neighbor.

Immigration in the United States is a topic which seems to have two sides to- keeping it as American as possible and becoming connected with other cultures. Given the time-period, the majority opinion on immigration shifts and justifications for both allowing and denying them are different. At times, the United States seemed to only accept or deny immigrants from coming into America when it was most convenient to their progression in either the economy or in the overall improvement of society and upcoming projects that needed cheap labor. In 1882, the mindset of the majority was to remove and minimize immigration of Asians and other ethnic groups that were not desirable in the eyes of the United States. America justified the Chinese Exclusion Act by deeming Asian immigrants a threat towards the job market and economy. They enacted this so that the economy will not go through turmoil, but it just attacked immigrants for their race and were treated unfairly. Therefore, the justification behind the removal of immigration is not valid because of the underlying racial bias that was carried within immigration policies.