Isabel Trevino

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

The latino population has influenced American ways of life . Latino’s have changed the United states. In areas such as arts, sports, movements, and income. Without their influence on american culture would be a much different place. The famous latina I have chosen to represent is Sofia Vergara. She is know as a triple threat ih her own way. Vergara is a model, actress, and former comedian. Sofia grew up in Barranquilla, Colombia and was born on July 10th, 1972, to the loving parents Margarita Vergara Davila de Vergara and Julio Enrique Vergara Robayo. Sofia Vergara is a great role model for all. She has influenced the nation in many different ways. Because of her humbleness it has brought great fortune for example her career skyrocketed by making insignificant commercials in Columbia, becoming a travel host, and her stardom can be associative with movies, Tv shows and modeling gigs.

Many of the Latino authors in this book, being Americans who left a country in Latin America or who have ancestors who did so, seem to experience what most modern day

As I stared into my reflection, I began questioning my identity. I felt as though the world was was condemning me for not fitting society’s image of the “typical Latino”. I began to hang my head down in shame. I was apprehensive to show my culture because I would be ridiculed for not being Latino enough.

Dr. Jason Richwine discusses the Latino’s absorption and integration into the American culture. He compares the Latino nation with other countries’ immigrants that has rose out of poverty, while the Hispanics have not been rising up out of the lower class after several generations have passed. Richwine mentions that American prejudice might be influencing the Hispanic immigrants not striving. For example, he states, that “popular explanations from the

A diverse minority group of Latino and Spanish-speaking peoples has played an important part of what it means to be American and what it means to be a citizen in the United States today. Moving into the future, in order to analyze the trajectory that this group is in, we must first understand the group’s history in the United States and in territories that would become the United States. In addition, we must look at the origins of the most recent wave of Latino immigration in order to understand their current effect on American society and the intersection between both minority and majority groups. Finally, we get to the apex of this investigation: what lies in the future for Latino Americans in the United States? Although Latino

Selena Quintanilla, an American singer, songwriter, actress, and fashion designer,was born on April 16, 1971, in Lake Jackson, Texas. She was the youngest child of three. Her father Abraham Quintanilla, Jr., was a former Mexican American musician which helped him notice her musical abilities when she was six years old. He told People magazine, "Her timing, her pitch were perfect, I could see it from day one".[sic] In 1980 Quintanilla, Jr. opened his first Tex-Mex restaurant, where Selena and her siblings Abraham III bassist and Suzette Quintanilla drummer often performed. She later broke away from the band she formed with her siblings and launched her solo career. Many people called her the Queen of Tejano music, a style of folk music with

Selena was born into the musical family. Selena was a Mexican popstar actually a popstar all around the world. She has one brother and one sister. Her brothers name was Abraham and her sister was Suzette. Her dad played in a band called Los Dinos. He quit his music career to start Selenas. She will be forever remembered. Selena grew up in Mexico, died violently, and is remembered by thousands today.

“The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria”, by Cofer explains what she has been through with stereotypes and how she dealt with them. Growing up in an Hispanic culture is very different than growing up with an American family. There are certain things expected from each of those culture that are different from one another. “... for example, that of the Hispanic woman as the

Isabel Allende was born on August 2, 1942, in Lima, Peru, to Tomás and Francisca Allende. Isabel Allende is the goddaughter of Salvador Allende, the first socialist president of Chile who was her father 's cousin. Allende’s father was a diplomat and deserted the family when Allende was just two years. Allende, her siblings, and mother then moved in with her grandfather in Chile. Allende remembers herself as a rebellious child during those years living with her grandfather. “We lived in an affluent house with no money," (Allende, Telegraph). "My grandfather would pay for what was necessary but my mother did not even have the cash to buy us an ice

Did you know that many American citizens were once immigrants from other countries? Today’s Americans where once from all over the world just looking for a good place to start over. There are many ways that Both Maria and Martin are alike and different. Many of these ways are shown through their environment, cultural background, their relationship with their grandparents, and their cultural heritage.

At the end of this novel, the reader discovers that Isabel Osmond has made the decision to return to Rome. After her cousin, Ralph Touchett, had passed away, she had spent her time at Gardencourt without the desire to make a decision on the matter of her husband. This was the time Casper Goodwood came to express his knowledge of her predicament and offered to rescue her from it. The reader does not get to read Isabel’s decision being made, but instead is later told by another character. The author, Henry James, uses this tactic throughout the novel when we can assume he has no explanation for what is occurring, or to give the reader the privilege of drawing our own conclusions.

My favourite author is Isabel Allende, she is a person who writes with counciosness and tries to express herself in a way that it is so natural it is imposible to not understand and feel what you are reading.

Latin American celebrities such as Eva Longoria have become activists for human rights such as immigration reform and labour laws. Apart from speaking out against Donald Trump’s policies, one of her foundations, the Eva Longoria Foundation, aims to empower Latinas through education programs such as entrepreneurship and STEM extracurriculars. She also co-produced a documentary called The Harvest that depicts the life of migrant child farmworkers. And fortunately, this “rite of passage” to stardom is seemingly no longer absolutely necessary. The younger generation of Latina celebrities such as Gina Rodriguez and Diane Guerrero, to my knowledge, did not go through this “transformative arch”. Instead, they are simultaneously standing on the shoulders of giants and breaking records and stereotypes on their own. Not only is the hit TV show Jane the Virgin in which stars Gina Rodriguez defying multiple stereotypes and bringing attention to social issues. But, in real life, she also recently founded the “We Will” foundation in which will fund arts educations scholarships for young women in need. Diane Guerrero, who plays Maritza on Orange is the New Black, went through the traumatizing experience of having her parents detained and deported when she was fourteen. She wrote about this terrifying but not uncommon experience in her memoir named “In The Country We Love: My Family Divided”. In interviews, she has been very outspoken against anti immigration

She was born in Arandas, Jalisco located in Mexico. She was 1 of many children. She did not attend school since she worked since a very young age. She was raised on the farm. As a teenager, she had to flee her hometown of Arandas and hide in