Ethnic Discrimination : The Chicano Population

The aftermath of the Mexican American warManifest Destiney, the annexation of Texas, and the actions of President John Polk are all factors leading up to the Mexican-american war. It is known that the annexation of Texas was what pushed Mexico leaders over the edge. In 1836 Texas gained independence from Mexico, after becoming an American State the relationship between Mexico and the U.S quickly came to an end. Polk not only had his eyes on Texas but also on California and New Mexico. Polk won the support of the american people by declaring he would complete Americas Manifest Destiny, to reach the West coast. Mexico denied Polk’s offer to buy these lands, leading America to send troops onto disputed territory. April 25, 1846 Mexican troops killed american soldiers on the disputed land, marking the beginning of the war, this was the battle of Palo Alto. The Mexican-American war had a major impact on both Mexico and U.S history. This essay will discuss the political, social, and economical effects between Mexico and the U.S after the Mexican American war.

The Chicano movement is a Civil Rights movement that embodied the identification of Latino Americans in the United States. In the modern day, most people wouldn’t know about the struggle that Latino’s had to endure before being recognized by their diverse nature. However, the Chicano movement, just like the Civil Rights Movement, was a significant part of equality within the United States over the course of the past half a century. The Chicano movement had its roots dating all the way back to when the United States were attempting their Manifest Destiny from which they went to war with Mexico for the land now known as the south west of the United States. Ever since then, the United States had been treating Mexican’s and Mexican American’s without a regard for their existence. While Latino’s are finally beginning to receive recognition for it’s vast diversity, Latino’s nationwide still face the uphill battle against ignorance.

Mexico won the right to California from the Spanish in the Mexican War of Independence in 1821. The war is what ended Spanish control of what was known as New Spain.

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.

In 1821 Mexico just got it’s independence and was just beginning to start to form. Mexico invited Americans

In his book Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice, Ian F. Haney Lopez studies the change that in racial politics brought about by the Chicano movement. He examines why Chicano activists embrace their identity as members of the Brown race, an action that is a rejection of previous generations ' attempts to gain civil rights by claiming to be White. He analyzes this racial transformation in the context of race as a socially constructed idea meant to preserve power dynamics.

The 1965-1980 the Mexican Americans, were over the discrimination and the poor life conditions. They looked to find a new way of living from building a Chicano identity. The Pride and Prejudice action stated through a few farm workers named Ceasar Chavez and Dolores Huerta who protested on Sacramento for fair pay and justified working conditions. The level headed discussion over undocumented outsiders erupts, with a backfire that in the long run incorporates calls for fixed fringes, English-just laws and endeavors to mark undocumented workers as a deplete on open assets. All the while, the Latino impact is blasting in

The ethnic group that I choose was Native Americans. I am of Caucasian descendant with Native American from my dad’s side. I really want to learn more about my heritage and family background.

A racialized minority is a specific race in a country or state that is not qualified to fit in due to the reason that they don’t speak a specific language, they look different in skin color or dress another way, or don’t have a high education like the majority of the people in the country they have immigrated into. For example, Chicanos are a well-known racialized minority in the United States, and “Chicanos have been defined as alien to the mainstream white society” (Toro 1).

1. One striking example of intersectional resistance can be seen In the Chicano Studies Reader’s chapter “Mexican Mural: It’s Social-Educative Roles in Latin America and the United States.” In the 1970’s when art became reintegrated into art history, the Mexican muralist movement was revived. These murals were designed to promote political action as well as recover and teach Pre-Colombian Chicanx history. This newfound heritage gave Chicanx a new identity, fueling intersectional resistance by inspiring Chicanx to fight and resist a society that does not want them to succeed.

The Mexican-American was very important to our country. We not only annexed Texas but, gained other states what is now modern day California, Utah, and Nevada. Mexico also obtains from the war which was debt relief. This paper explains how America and Mexico went from enemies to allies.

Mexico tried to populate Texas by encouraging Americans to immigrate there. This didn’t work out for them because people came, but weren't loyal Mexico and because of this the state eventually gained independence from Mexico in 1836. California gained their statehood in 1850 after a lengthy battle with Mexico for the land. The Mexican-American War started when a Mexican cavalry attacked a group of U.S soldiers, killing about a dozen. Later into the war, U.S forces were able to conquer the lands north of Rio Grande because of the small amount of Mexican citizens. A man named Santa Anna on the Mexican side, was able to convince the U.S he wanted to end the war but double crossed them as soon as he could and because of this they went into battle and Mexico failed horribly. Santa Anna had soon resigned his presidency and in 1848 a treaty was signed establishing that America gets Texas and can have California for plus the rest of the territory north of Rio Grande for $15 million, this was the Mexican Cession. Soon after this whole ordeal, the Compromise of 1850 was enacted, this was a set of 5 bills passed by Congress. Texas gave its claim to New Mexico, California became a free state, the South prevented a bill being passed which would prevent slavery in new territories, the slave trade was banned in the District of

Discrimination toward genders has been put on a repetitive cycle throughout history. In developing countries around the world, discrimination of women is evident. “In China, the role of women changed drastically during the Mao Zedong era (1949 – 1976). Communism allowed women, who had previously been mostly limited to existence inside the household, to become social beings” (nobullying.com). Shortly after that time period, the continent of Africa went through issues with gender discrimination. The percentages of women being victims of domestic violence in Africa were extremely high. Other impactful issues the continent faces are forcing arranged marriages, female circumcision, and depriving woman from the ability to produce offspring. Latin America also struggled with this issue around the same time as Africa. Countries such as Bolivia, Guatemala, and Argentina have had widespread issues of sex trafficking.

Certainly, discrimination is not only detestable, yet it is as well potentially dangerous. Xenophobia as a form of discrimination has been widely experienced by Latin Americans, and there are two main factors generating this matter: migration patterns and globalization. Firstly, what is xenophobia? This term is usually understood as hatred of strangers, but it also connotes vilification, exclusion, and hostility to foreigners. Although xenophobia and racism frequently overlap, they are quite different. Unlike xenophobia, racism entails revulsion to physical characteristics, and xenophobia is the prejudice based on the idea that the other person is an outsider. Furthermore, Latin Americans are prone to undergo this kind of discrimination.

On 1821 Mexico won its independence from Spain becoming a young independent country. Mexico was faced with many challenges after the wars for independence. The economy had been ravaged. Many had died. The social dislocation caused by the wars and all its residual wounds had still to be healed. And in this chaotic environment the Mexican tried to forge a nation out of growing economic, social, and political, instability. An independent Mexican congress was also formed made up of conservative criollos who debate the future course of Mexico. Mexico was organized as a federal republic composed of 19 states and 4 territories. After its independence, Mexico had a vast territory and not enough citizens to occupy the land. Mexican government afraid to losing the un-occupy land, encourage immigration from the united states to become Mexican citizen and reside on the Mexican territory called Texas. True the years, the Anglo immigrant population in taxes grow so fast that when the Mexican government try to obtain control over it was too late. According to Acuna, “By 1844 war with Mexico over Texas and the Southwest was only a matter of time. James K. Polk, who strongly advocated the annexation of Texas and expansionism in general, won the presidency by only a small margin, but his election was interpreted as a mandate for national expansion” Europeans are guilty of imperialism because in the 1830s and 1840s they took advantage of the young, independent, and unstable government of