Hispanic Racism

America has had discrimination against minorities for a long time and it will continue to have it until people treat minorities with respect. Discrimination is when people treat minorities bad because of their skin color, ethnicity and the place they were born. For immigrants, the problems they had to arrive to America were not a good experience only by the struggle to gain acceptance among the population. Most immigrants came to the U.S. to have a better life and give education to their children. Almost all immigrants have experienced discrimination at some point in their life and even some are still experiencing it today. Most Latinos don’t have a choice but to deal with it because they know they are illegal and they can’t say anything

These racist groups take advantage especially of the illegal Latino population in doing these things, because they believe they have no rights due to their illegal status here in the United States. Also these groups know that many of these Hispanics will not go to police to report these incidents of discrimination and abuse, because they are fearful that in doing so they might get deported. They also discriminate the legal Latinos, because in their eyes they are the same as the illegal ones. The article also portrays the horrific actions of discrimination racist extremist do against Latinos. Eviatar reports the examples of the abuse by stating, “a young mother was arrested and jailed when she asked to be paid for her work in a Tennessee cheese factory; a migrant bean picker whose life savings were confiscated by police during a traffic stop, and a rapist in Georgia going unpunished because his 13-year-old victim is undocumented (par 3). The hate they feel towards this minority group, cause them to commit acts that are unjustifiable. They inflict pain and psychological suffering to Hispanics. This behavior is the cause racism, that as you see can harm to other ethnicities at a great level. Racialism also comes to play in this case, because these groups believe that they are “biologically” superior to Hispanics and other ethnicities and races as well. Our race does not make us superior to others, yet they still believe in that it does.

The founding fathers of this nation envisioned a dream which granted life and liberty to all citizens with equality and without prejudice. The ideology of democracy is the reason America declared its independence from Spain. However, their vision of a free nation was in the interest of the white class citizens, with the desire of reaching their goal in becoming rich and prosperous farmers, doctors, and all the things people hoped to pursue in life. This is the American Dream people were looking for in the birth of a new nation; evidently, the freedom of being treated fairly and having the same rights would mean segregating the social classes and labeling citizens by color of nationality.

Being Hispanic is being able to enjoy and demolish your mom’s tamales at Christmas. Being Hispanic is also being able to explain horchata to your friends and watch soccer games with your family. It’s being able to be proud of your culture and roots. However, being Hispanic is living in fear. Being Hispanic means sometimes you don’t know if your parents will come home from work. It’s being petrified that your dad may get pulled over because he is driving without a license. Being Hispanic is seeing your mom come home, tired from a low paying job, because she could not pursue an education. Hispanic means working hard in life to make your parents proud, to make all the looks of discrimination worth it. Being Hispanic is also being told “no” repeatedly,

Mexican American (Chicano) first generation back in 1960 were not treated with respect. They were mistreated and had to deal with racism. The school district did not offer them the same rights as any other students, they did not give them classes to get ready for college. Thousands of students who attended high school in Los Angeles were fed up of being treated like if they were less than anyone else. They decided to take action and thirteenth students organized blowouts.

Does it matter what we are called: Latino or Hispanic? Does it change who we are as people? To an extent, most people do not know the difference between either. Typically, people group both terms as one singular item. However, Hispanic and Latino racial classifications are more than a broad category for people from Spanish-speaking countries. The words connote and represent a history of colonial terminology that based its success on the failures of innocent, historically peaceful, cultural groups. Hispanic and Latino terminology are political and economic in every sense. This paper will show that colonial leanings to control and govern people’s lives have yet to culminate, even though the era of imperialism ended a century ago. The United States, although far from its heyday as the singular house of power, still manages to achieve control and influence over the imperialized minds of groups of people, specifically Hispanics and Latinos.

The Latino Threat is a concept of an imposing threat of the Latino, whether they be from Mexico or any other Latin country, and how they affect the U.S. and its citizens. This concept is described heavily Leo R. Chavez’ book aptly titled The Latino Threat. In the book, he describes how the Latino threat as a concept has been used routinely to underline the aspect of United States citizenship in a tit for tat manner; that being dehumanizing the Latino to raise the standing of U.S. citizenship. The U.S. as a nation believes it should feel better about itself because it is the one that turns people away rather than being the place where people run from. Over the history of America this isolationist view on illegal immigrants has waned and

The most prevalent lessons that my community has taught me is that silence is an enabler. I was born and raised in the Logan Square community where several Latinos reside. Chicago is home to more than 1,782,423 Latinos, and among that population, a few hundred of those individuals call Logan square home. I have witnessed silence imprison people of this community which has allowed injustices to occur. Of the several oppressions that occur within my community, sexism often times is ignored. Within my community the Latino culture is established, and within the Latino culture a patriarchy is set in place; where males are superior to woman, a machismo culture dominants the power of women and domestic and sexual harassment occur. Within my community internal sexism is experienced by many women. In my community, which consist mostly of Latina immigrants, the silence due to fear is present. My hope is to become an ally for those Latinas that fall prey to sexism and help them with their cause by raising my voice against this oppression.

April 2015 was the year Donald Trump, the Republican, announced to the public his serious interest in joining the 2016 presidency election. Trump 's highest interest is immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, and states they are "criminals.” He blames the race of Mexicans of robbing Americans jobs, and treating Americans like babies (Miller, n.pag.). What he does not know, is that not all Mexicans are "criminals," and we are not robbing Americans ' jobs. Most of us come to United States to work our hardest, and get a better job. Trump not only is he a racist, but he also has made many unprofessional actions and decisions. We should not be voting for Donald Trump because his ruthless actions against immigrants are strongly affecting our society and segregating most races within each other. He can be a dangerous future president who is carelessly choosing between the white American and Mexican.Trump shows a high interest in segregation among all races and blames most of the unemployed by allowing Mexicans to “take over”.

Racial discrimination commonly refers to unfair or unequal behavior upon on individuals due to their race or ethnicity. Racism has been practiced for decades. Exerting superiority or supremacy over a race of individuals is the attempt of racial dominance. Despite the increasing population in the United States, Hispanic Americans find racial discrimination a reality in their lives. Migration rates have been on a dramatic climb over the past several decades resulting in a significant growth in diversity being experienced. The migration of the various cultural groups, including the Hispanic cultures,

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. By the 1970s, the south became the nations most integrated region. In 1976, 45.1% of the souths African American students were going to majority all white schools, compared to 27.5% in the Northeast and 29.7% in the Midwest. School integration have increased since the 1980s. Several court cases helped enforce the Civil Right Act.

Chicano society in the United States is still having some issues regarding acculturation and racism. It has been a conflict between Mexican-American and Anglo-American, each fighting to keep their legacy alive, by attacking the other community for many years, since the Mexican American war. Also, the racism against Mexican was and still is a problem, although not as harsh as before. Chicanos are fighting to keep their traditions and history alive.

In the 60’s throughout the 70’s, many people of different color were facing racism do to

The article, Decoding Prejudice towards Hispanics: Group Cues and Public Reactions to Threatening Immigrant Behavior consists of previous and modern racism. This article was published in 2013 and was written by Todd K. Hartman, Benjamin J. Newman, and C. Scott Bell. The article itself was well-organized and provided crucial information that needs more recognition. The main point of this source is to express whether prejudice towards Hispanics has gone “underground” and “coded” racially or ethnically in the United States (Hartman, Newman, Scott Bell 145). This article is a great source to use, not only does it include racial issues, but provides the rights the Hispanic populations has, as well as prejudice studies throughout the years.

Imperialism and then colonialism opened the floodgates that are troubled race relations, racism, and misguided societal values. Race has played a vital role in how Americans view each other, and themselves, and the experiences that they have. We constantly hear about institutionalized racism, the school-to-prison pipeline and police brutality on the news. The topic of race has such an enormous presence in our society that it simply cannot be ignored. But what is rarely talked about is how these conditions are incredibly similar to those that people in Latin America have to endure as well. Racism does not end at the borders of the United States, and in fact, they only seem to get worse in countries that are less developed.