From Indians To Chicanos Chapter 1 Analysis

Throughout this first chapter of Latino Americans the key points in my opinion were the following. Starting with the origin story of the Americas, the book mentions there might not be a definitive starting point because there “500 nations in North America before a European ship ever dropped anchor off the Eastern Seaboard” (Suarez 3). The book from this point on chronologically starts narrating, first about 55 years before Protestant refugees from Mayflower ever stepped on American soil, a Spanish sailor Pedro Menendez de Aviles forced French protestants from their Florida coast settlement to then stablish St. Augustine. From this point the book continues to tell the stories of Juan de Oñate, from witnessing the founding of Santa Fe, the oldest capital of North America, to exploring more than half a dozen of American states, he is one of the most fundamental conquistadors who is the least

“I'm not Mexican. I am not American. I am not American in USA and Mexican in Mexico. I am Chicano everywhere. I do not have to assimilate anything. I have my own history”, stated the writer and novelist Carlos Fuentes. The Chicano subculture is the mixture of the Mexican and the American cultures. This subculture has its own history and unique characterizations that make it stand out. According to the Merriam Webster dictonary the word subculture is defined as “a group that has beliefs and behaviors that are different from the main groups within a culture or society”. The Chicano subculture has a history, language, leaders, art, literature, and even their music, and it’s the perfect example for this definition of the word subculture.

More than a century of prejudice against one of the largest minority residing in the United States that continues today. To these days Hispanics are targets of discrimination and are not offer equal opportunities in jobs and education. The roots of discrimination go back to the end of the Mexican War when thousands of Mexicans became American citizens overnight. The sign of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo not only transfer land to the United States but also the people that live there before it became territory of the United States. These people began to suffer from discrimination in their owl land. Their sons and daughters did not have better luck because even thought they were born in the United States therefore they are American citizens

Post the Mexican – American War in 1846, there would be a plethora of political change that would be inevitable for the Mexicans, and the Americans. These changes would bring about a divide between the two countries that would keep them in a rivalry spanning over numerous decades. However, before this rivalry could occur, something would be needed to induce it. The Mexicans and the Americans would fight against each other for over a year until a victor would succeed. Ultimately, all the fighting would have an outcome of epic proportions due to the political losses and gains each country would encounter. Though the end of the war brought Mexico further independence, it also contributed to

The Spaniards made what we now know as Mexico into a racially segregated country, where the Europeans had priority in the casta. The white Caudillos were at the top of the pyramid, while the middle class, and then the Mexican Campesinos and the Mestizos were on the bottom. Each group of people worked against each other to try and distinguish themselves from another group. After Mexico gained its independence and the colonials went back to Spain, Mexico had to find a way to function as a country on their own. Society, let alone a democracy would not continue to work if all the racial groups continued to fight against each other. The different groups needed to learn to work together, which is what complicated Mexico forming a democracy. Colonial, racial, religious, and economic legacies served as roadblocks to Mexico’s independence and ability to establish a lasting democracy, because Mexicans could no longer compete against one another like they did under Spanish rule.

The Chicano power movement of the 1960's is characterized by Carlos Munoz, jr. as a movement led by the decedents of Mexican Americans who pressed for assimilation. These young people, mostly students, became tired of listening to school rhetoric that stressed patriotism when they were being discriminated against outside the classroom. Unlike their parents, the young people of the Chicano movement did not want to assimilate into mainstream America and lose their identity, they wanted to establish an identity of their own and fight for the civil rights of their people.

If the income level indicated above does not represent the approximate income level of your parents ' household during your high school years, please explain.

Imagine had the Chicano Movement not started up, your best friend, someone you sit next to in class and maybe even yourself would not be able to be sitting in class right now getting the best education possible. Imagine a world without people like Maurice Ferre, Nydia Velazquez, Mario Lopez, and Eva Longoria. All being either powerful figures or famous actors in our lives, all being Chicano. Without the Chicano Movement that was started by Sal Castro many of these important figures and famous actors would not be known for us today and would not have made the difference they have today.

Discrimination has been the brawn of injustices done to people of color. Most don't know of the Chicano struggle in the United Stated for the past four to six generations. Chicanos in America were forced to face chaos, poverty, and pain. Chicano, by Richard Vasquez is a perfect example of how Mexican Americans and Chicanos were treated in America during the 90's. Although Chicanos faced a burdensome life in America, lots of customs and culture immigrated to America with them, which has fabricated the Chicano Culture. The book Chicano profoundly demonstrates how hard it was for a Mexican family to immigrate to America. Once Chicanos started a life in America, it was very hard to get out of it. Mexicans were not socially accepted because

Provided how squeamish I can be, I did not want to become a medical health professional despite my ancestral lineage’s commonality of such professions. This trend led my family to expect me to mirror my grandfather’s career and become a medical physician. My family viewed health care workers as the optimal profession for humanitarian purposes. However, my grandfather believed that an engineer creates solutions to human problems and thus can have a larger human impact than a health professional. I decided to major in chemical engineering as an undergraduate with his words in mind.

I don't fully understand what 'Chicano Consciousness' means. From what I got in the articles a Chicano is simply a person that identifies as a Chicano. However, there are a lot of people that identify as Chicanos and so there is a common understanding and common ground. I think what makes it unique is that all Chicanos are still very different from each other, but in being different they're the same. I don't know, I think it's very interesting. Also, another thing that struck me while reading was in the article titled ' What is a Chicano'. There was a section where the author said that he was in his neighbor talking to a African-American and told him he wasn't Mexican because he wasn't from Mexico. I had never thought of it this way, it has

The way Native Americans and the racialization of their people occurred was and is through three categories social, legal, and historical. The past and present both show evidence of racialization of the Native American people. The Racialization of Native Americans was and is socially constructed through the media such as movies and shows and more recently social media, it is legally constructed through laws and rights such as citizenship, and historically through events in the past where Native Americans lost people and their land.

When someone thinks of the hispanic and latino community the first thought that occurs in their head is the importance the culture means to the people which brings on the big celebrations, feast and family gatherings making it seem like such a positive outlook. Of course just like every other thing in life there is a negative outlook as well. That negative outlook in the chicano culture would be that the race, class, and gender of someone will determine how one lives their life. For men that will be a great turnout, but for woman that is a different story, due to the fact that occasionally women are seen as inferior. Every beginning needs a start, the start for these occurrence would bring us back the history of the hispanic people in the U.S.

After independence, Mexico struggled with how to govern the new nation. In contrast with the Jacobin’s (radicals) vs conservatives in France, Mexico faced similar complications when conservatives became reluctant to take away power and land from the wealthy and called for a strong central government. Against conservatives wishes, liberals wanted to establish reforms and redistribute land and wealth away from those centralized wealthy powers and really to give back to the people and establish a little bit more equality and access throughout the country. Liberals in France and Mexico were similar because they both consisted of middle class that were rebelling against class systems, however they were different because overtime radicals in France became corrupted whereas in Mexico radicals elected a

Conflicts after Mexico’s Independence led to difficulties in establishing a stable government. There were conflicts among people who favored Mexico to become a republic and people who favored a monarch. Some like anticlerics wanted the Catholic Church to have minimal control while some wanted the church to maintain a strong hold in the government.