Latino Men Tend To Judge A Neighborhood

On March 13th, 1964, in New York, a young woman by the name of Catherine “Kitty” Genovese was just coming home from her late shift at work. It’s three a.m., and as she’s walking to her apartment building, she notices a suspicious, hooded man some distance away. Rightfully concerned, she goes to the phone booth, aiming to call the police, but never makes it in time. She’s stabbed in the back, and then in her gut. When her screams cause the neighbors to turn the lights on, all they do

For many Latino families, their image is misunderstood. The majority of Americans analyze Latino communities focusing on the individual. Asking individual questions such as what did that person do wrong to be poor? Why is that individual immigrating into the US? The real question we should be asking is what factors made them immigrate to a different country in the first place. After all, “nobody likes to leave their home” says Juan Gonzalez from the documentary Harvest of Empire. Researching Latinos in America requires using structural/social determinants to gain an accurate representation. In Latinos in

A child Owen Collins was found dead in the woods, in a burnt cardboard box. The child’s mother 23 year old Breanna Arnold was a meth addict. She lived with her 31 year old boyfriend Zachary S. Barnes was also addicted to meth. One day Arnold, Barnes and 16 year old Zachary Barker were at home shooting up with Owen Collins and his older brother in the next room. Zachary Barnes told the police that when Arnold went to check on the children Owen was already dead, so he decided it would be a good idea to get rid of the child’s body by wrapping him in plastic and putting him in a drawer. The next day on a Sunday Barnes and Barker put Owen into a cardboard box and rode with a woman to Marion. The woman said that she did not

It was delicious, each bite bursting with flavor. We all gave thanks as a family, and we were all thankful for each other. Everyone had fun, laughing and sharing memories of the past.

So this boy by the age of 14, named Tim, lived in the worst neighborhood. There were murders, kidnappings, and even robberies. Whenever Tim witnessed something so tragic as of these topics I have listed above, he started to bawl. He cried and cried and cried until his mother came in with some cookies and warm milk and fed it to him like he was still her little 1 year old. Tim was never allowed to go outside. For 1, there was this gang called, “Victorians”, and whenever someone tries to cross their path, they would rob them of their money and beat the victim up. Tim had once crossed their path, and they tried to rob Tim, but 1 of the members passed out because Tim had thrown a pipe at the member’s temple, which was located on the sides of his

Outside, a deep silence fell over the neighborhood. This silence crept into every household. Members of the community had a guise of anger and pain expressed on their faces. Everyone locked themselves inside, to lament such a tragedy that has brought sorrow to a twelve years old’s family. Parents fell on their knees with tears in their eyes. This last murder represented the final straw. So many of their own had been murdered by the malicious, metallic, monsters that were supposed to be the defenders of their community. They felt insecure, threatened by the

Every ethnic group is important into how we understand each other. With this being said, I find it particularly interesting about the creation of the Latino population. As a short background the Latino population was created through three specific ethnic groups. Africans, white europeans and the indigenous population of the Caribbean. I plan on examining the Latino population by discovering their group identity and critiquing their political engagement and influence through three different theoretical perspectives. These theoretical ideas are those of a primordialist, instrumentalist, and constructivists viewpoints in order to help understand more about the Latino population when it comes to ethnicity as whole.

Upon reading and analyzing two different articles focusing on Latin American experiences and issues, it is important to note a particular correlation that appears in between the lines of these texts. Each of these works demonstrates a common theme of how Latinos are perceived within American society, and how this prejudice affects them in how they choose present their culture and claim their identity publicly. More specifically, they demonstrate how Latinos are forced to continually shift the way they present themselves in order to fit society’s standards of what an American citizen is.

This image of disorder then encourages further incivility, telling residents and other citizens that it does not care about how their neighborhood represents itself. This encourages further uncivilized activity leading to outbreaks of greater crime. Aesthetically, the property appears derelict and unwanted. This appearance lends itself to the loitering of homeless individuals where “crashpads” become homes to runaways. This environment escalates to drug venues where loitering, refuse and graffiti problems exist. Graffiti tags indicating particular gang logo markings create turf wars amongst rival gangs. Then, an escalation of problems unfolds for law enforcement. Meanwhile, the neighborhood, once considered

America’s cities have experienced a substantial increase of gang membership among the youth living in impoverished communities throughout the last thirty years. Prior to 1990, many individuals associated gang activity with specific communities, but as youth gang violence was drastically increased across the United States’ inner cities, the public’s perception of this emerging social issue shifted. Due to the rapid rise of gang violence and the rise of youth membership, delinquent behavior by youths began to receive a substantial amount of academic and media attention. Gangs have been perceived by the media as groups of individuals who congregate regularly to commit crimes to profit their organizations.

A 12 year old boy faces grown up murder charges for the murder of his father’s fiancé who happened to be eight months pregnant. Jordan Brown who was 11 years old at the time, was responsible for the death of Kenzie Houk and the fetus that was still in her womb. On February of 2009, Kenzie Houk was found on her bed with a bullet through her head. Many suspects were investigated but all of the evidence pointed to the young boy as the primary suspect. There were no witnesses to connect him to the murder but when investigators interrogated the victim’s oldest daughter, who was 7, she stated that she heard a “boom” before leaving for school with Jordan. The youngest daughter of the victim, who was 4, was the person who discovered the body on the

It’s the morning of December 26th, 1996. Police cars scatter the scene searching for a missing 6 year old pageant queen; JonBenet Ramsey. The house is flooded with neighbors and officers as they search for any evidence. An officer tells John and Patsy Ramsey to search for anything suspicious. John makes a bee-line to the basement. What he finds is JonBenet. Covered in her favorite white blanket, beaten, strangled, sexually assaulted, she was dead. He carried her up the stairs, frantic, destroying any evidence. An unsolved murder mystery changing the lives of the Ramsey’s and history itself forever. What if I told you that maybe JonBenet knew her killer? Suspicious behavior was brought up by the Ramseys. Understandably, but, small and valuable

We had lost our sense of generosity and we were filled with bitterness and anger. But there was still a job that needed to be done so we couldn’t let our emotions get the best of us. Our next and final home was on Holton Street. As the minutes passed on our way to the next home I hoped that this experience would be different. As we neared our destinations the quality of the homes was deteriorating. Shoes hanging on power lines (usually a sign pf gang presence or drug trading), trash all over the sidewalks, and sadly seeing a family of 3 in nothing but T-Shirt and shorts sitting outside on a bench in below freezing temperature. Seeing all these I had a feeling that the area we were entering wasn’t only poor, but unsafe. We arrived to the home and knocked on the door. A boy no older than 14 answered the door and an enormous grin appeared on his face. Boom. This is exactly the type of reaction we loved. This home was in abysmal condition. There were holes in the wall. floorboards were creaking at every step, and there were cobwebs seemingly in every corner of the kitchen. As we placed the food on the counter we noticed that the mother was watching us from the living room. She came out to meet us and to our shock, she was in a wheelchair. “My God mam, are you okay? How did this happen?” said amo. In a very heavy English accent she replied, “Car accident.” In the corner of my eye I also spotted two toddlers sitting in a crib. How is this woman

The text says, "When an area has large amount graffiti, people tend to view it as a "bad neighborhood." The text also says,"Graffiti that is gang-related or expresses hateful sentiments is most likely to be unwelcome in an area." So if someone outside of the neighborhood vandalizes the neighborhood the people in that neighborhood are automatically thought of as "bad people".

I had violent, grass-stained war games with my neighborhood friends, while my mother worked in her small vegetable garden among the honeybees, and watched things grow. An ever-present warming smell of knishes and hot dogs permeated around every inch of my block as the nearby concession pumped a constant flow of fresh food to hungry little leaguers and their families. Looking up, the summer sky looked like an Easter egg God had dipped in blue dye.