The City Of Rowland Heights

I live at 383 East, 143rd street and my zip code is 10454. It is an area in which Latinos are the main population. This area is called Mott Haven in which there are many public housing projects. I live in one of the housing project in which my neighbors I can see they are mainly Hispanics and Blacks. Around my specific zip code area, there are different neighborhoods. In addition, even though these neighbourhood are very close to each other, there are still a lot of differences between them. I will focus on the varieties of people’s races that inhabit certain areas of the zip code 10454 and how certain areas have more schools while other areas have more businesses.

Every classroom in America is made up of multiple cultures with many different believes; however, regardless of culture or beliefs all students should receive the best education possible without losing their identities while in the process. Culture is a way of life of a group. Culture and learning are connected in significant ways and for this reason having an understanding of different cultures and learning processes should provide an outline for instructional decisions (Guild, 2001). The first step a teacher must take is to gain an understanding of each child culture. This paper will examine the Hispanic culture, discuss how a teacher could build global awareness and understanding, and incorporate diverse social and cultural views to create innovative methods to solving problems in his or her classroom.

Further it is spread in an area of 1,474 square miles, and it is one of the largest metro in the world. Such an assorted inhabitation and commerce puts large amount of pressure on many civil amenities and has its own unique health, policing and other governance aspects. For example the needs of the county in terms of amenities and policing and the population pressure differ from the other cities in the US--primarily because the area is the habitation of the metropolitan communities that have come to gather for decades and have created a unique cultural identity. Thus the Los Angeles and Orange Counties have a unique nature that arises from the inhabitants. Over the years the generations have created a culture in the county that creates the system and its problems. Other than these, floating populations may also add to the situation in the county. (Pebley; Vaiana, 2002)

The film does a great job of portraying the complexity of the situation by comparing two teachers that work at Hoover, Third-grade teacher Dianne Lee and First-grade teacher Arcelia Hernandez whose approach towards ELL students differs tremendously. Dianne Lee takes the English only approach with her students, hoping they will learn the language through immersion. Dianne is approaching her students in a way that is forcing them to give up their culture, even quoted saying “to become American, you have to be willing to give something up” pointing to her grandparents who immigrated from Russia and strove to Americanize themselves and their family. What Dianne most likely did not realize that more dropouts come from students who are placed in English only instruction where their primary language is suppressed (Freeman, p. 159). While showcasing another approach is Arcelia Hernandez who uses Latino culture and language that she shares with her students in order to help them learn both Spanish and English.

I was up raised in a tight-knit Jewish community, in a suburban county in Florida. Having briefly visited New York City as a child, I become fascinated with the great city. I was simply amazed with the cultural vitality of New York, relative to the modest diversity in my neighborhood.

While today Los Angeles is prided on being one of the most diverse cities in the United States, there was (and still is) a tremendous amount of resistance that had to be overcome. Society’s inclination to maintain homogeneity along with the testing of loyalties and allegiance through pressures of war have proven great obstacles in the evolution of what is now a majority-minority city. Nina Revoyr’s Southland gives a historic fictional recount of Los Angeles’ most tested times from perspectives looking in to the past, present, and future. The discovery of unpleasant truths through grave social injustices provide a painful reminder of Los Angeles’ history and consequently a warning for future setbacks. Southland is an emotional testament to the inescapability of discrimination within stratified cities and the unspoken necessity of assimilation that occurs as a result.

In recent years, the Arizona education department has been under fire after the Arizona legislature passed a law banning Mexican-American studies in schools (Planas, 2015, p. 1). Not only have the schools in Arizona suffered from this discriminatory law, but also the advancement of Mexican-American students. This essay will briefly go over the Tucson Unified School District, the district in the midst of the controversy, and will mainly focus on Pueblo Magnet High School, one of the schools in the Tucson Unified School District that was greatly affected by the ethnic studies law.

While ethnic spaces were created out of inequality and segregation, they’ve played an integral role in maintaining the cultures and traditions of their inhabitants. These spaces allowed for immigrants and those not of the Anglo persuasion to assimilate into American society yet remain a part of their homelands.

When cities begin their journey of being gentrified, many locals become displaced. Displacement is when locals are uprooted from their homes, due to outside factors, and forced to move elsewhere. According to the Urban Displacement Project conducted by U.C. Berkeley, “Gentrification results from both flows of capital and people. The extent to which gentrification is linked to racial transition differs across neighborhood contexts... Displacement takes many different forms—direct and indirect, physical or economic, and exclusionary—and may result from either investment or disinvestment” (U.C. Berkeley). Many people are coming into San Francisco’s Bay Area because of how diverse each element is. However, according to Census numbers, between 1990 and 2010, 35.7% of San Francisco’s black population dwindled (Bliss). 35.7% of the black community within San Francisco suffered from displacement. An additional 53% of low-income households in the Bay Area are at risk for displacement and gentrification (U.C. Berkeley). This has definitely left a dent within the diversity reputation held up by the Bay Area. When such a strong large part of people leave, The City will experience a shift in culture and community. Whether, it is the real estate, the food, the different cultures, the Bay Area has always been known for being different. Perhaps, this is why so many outsiders are coming in and buying up every piece of land they can. Whether their intentions were to purchase land and

According to Josh Sides, author of “L.A. City Limits,” there are three reasons why the demography of Southern California shifted so much in the 20th century. Sides states that diverse racial composition, dynamic economic growth, and dispersive spatial arrangement are what makes Southern California what it is today. He believes people migrated to the Los Angeles area looking for a better opportunity for work and living conditions. In the book, Sides makes it clear that Los Angeles is the city where African Americans chose to reside in order to seek better living conditions. People, especially minorities, wanted to be treated fairly and they wanted to be looked at as equals. Sides gets this point across clearly when he says “…they wanted to be treated with respect, dignity, and equality in public…” It is because of these reasons that minorities began changing the face of not only Los Angeles, but the entire state of California.

Understanding a community is essential when planning for instruction. My current placement is at Kofa High School which is a located in an urban community –Yuma, Arizona- with an estimated population of 93,000 people. It is fundamental to recognize that Yuma’s population mostly consists of Hispanic and White people. Although English is mostly spoken in this area, Spanish is commonly heard in the community due to the high Hispanic population.

Gentrification is an existential threat in the Bay Area due to urban renewal, spatial capital, and inequity. This threat can best be described as the process of residential or commercial use of an urban area shifting towards higher economic classes (Center, 199). The process of gentrification has caused many native residents to be displaced from their homes, as well as being forced to move further out of the area or become homeless. Neighborhoods that were once oasis’ for the working class are shifting and becoming too expensive for the people who live there. Food and job insecurity are two forms of inequity that contribute to gentrification practices. These three factors are key in the gentrification that is threatening Bay Area residents.

In this article, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Keren Horn, and Katherine O’Regan investigates the changes in racially integrated neighborhoods by using decennial census tract data. The authors wanted to explore three research questions: How frequent are racially integrated neighborhoods had become between 1990 and 2010? What caused integrated neighborhoods to increase? and What were the types of neighborhoods that became integrated and remained stably integrated over time?. Through their research Ellen, Horn, and O’Regan found that there has been a significant increase in the number of integrated neighborhoods. Between 1990 and 2010 the percentage increased from a little less than 20 percent to just above 30 percent. The authors claim that residential

I may have not grown up in Purisima del Rincon, however my culture is what it is because of this little town. I recall as a kid anticipating spring break and summer vacation, knowing I would be able to spend it in a place that was so different from Blackfoot, Idaho. I grew up in Blackfoot, but my family never adapted to the culture or to the culture of Hispanics in in Blackfoot, which is very different to that of Purisima’s. Coincidentally my parents decided to adapt Purisima’s culture and raise us on it even if we were about 1,958.5 miles away. I believe that cultures can be learned, for instance if it were not for my parents I would have never been exposed to Purisima’s distinct customs.

Ethnic Enclaves have become a solace for the minority groups around the world, but are very prominent in the United States. One of the most famous ethnic enclaves in America would be China Town (Tsui, B). China Town is an area in New York City that is devoted to the culture of the Chinese immigrants who live there. You can buy traditional Chinese cuisine, and even traditional Chinese clothing (Le, 2013). Enclaves such as China Town not only spring up due to immigrants missing their home lands, but appear as a response to assimilation. The dominant group of a society wants the minorities to assimilate, and although they can, they can also keep some of their culture as well. This is called pluralistic minorities (Carl, 2011). Ethnic Enclaves are an example of conflict theory because they are struggling for a cultural identity and their native resources, when the dominant