when one looks at it from the American point of view. A macho figure as depicted in American movies portrays a man who brutishly subdues people and acts with recklessness and lawlessness .A macho man in the America will‚ therefore‚ be all that the Mexican macho is not. In my opinion‚ Gilbert’s father epitomizes a larger society of people considered to be minorities‚ with strong ties to their heritage. These people add to the diversity of American culture. They also bring some positive qualities and
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Their economic activity prepared the way for military conquest. To the south‚ land for cotton rather than trade or missionary fervor attracted settlers and squatters in the 1820s at the very time that the Tejano population of 2‚000 was adjusting to Mexican independence. On the Pacific‚ a few New England traders carrying sea otter skins to China anchored in the harbors of Spanish California in the early nineteenth century. By the 1830s‚ as the near extermination of the animals ruined this trade‚ a commerce
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the struggles Mexicans faced in obtaining equal rights in his book‚ A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. According to Takaki‚ the American people and government affected Mexican lifestyles through encroachment on their rights‚ starting just before the Mexican-American War. Takaki posits that “political restrictions” made it difficult for Mexicans to secure their “rights as citizens” and maintain their “rights as landowners” (167). Takaki explains that Mexicans encountered monumental
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Katherine Benton-Cohen’s book‚ Borderline Americans‚ write an essay on how the term “American” became synonymous with “white” in Cochise County during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Start by discussing the nature of relations between Mexicans and whites in the different sections of the county during the 19th century. How did relations change over time and what factors led to those changes? In answering these questions‚ you should pay some attention to changing demographics
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Quiz # 2 Vargas Chapter 8 The Mexican American People in the War Time Era a. The Mexican American community participation into the war effort was a result of the hardships that they faced. The democratic principles of President Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms did not find their way into the minorities. Mexican Americans were deeply affected by constant discrimination. While it is true that the war created many opportunities for training and advancement in the industries involved in war production
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the term originate? Why have Mexican-Americans in the past objected to being known as Chicanos? Why do so many Mexican-Americans today take pride in being Chicanos? There questions are frequently asked when the subject of the Chicano Movement comes up. This paper will seek to clarify the origins and meaning of the term Chicano and attempts to explain some of the implications of being a Chicano. A Chicano is an individual (usually with a Spanish surname) of Mexican parentage or ancestry who lives
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dissertation of Tijuana and cross border consumption. The word hybrid describes a mixture between two different objects. In Magali’s dissertation hybrid describes the Mexican/American people and their culture which they have cultivated living in Tijuana. The quote mentioned earlier accentuates this concept of “Hybrid Identities” in terms of Mexican/American’s. In Magali dissertation she talks about how families in Tijuana cross the border to get food‚ clothing‚ and other basic necessities for survival. The
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stanzas. It does have a few words that rhyme which are “English” (5) and “Spanish” (6) and also with “Mexicans” (14) and then with “Americans” (15). The poem also has rhythm‚ it is a low steady beat. It is a straightforward poem about how life is for a person with the same race/ethnicity as others and at the same time‚ different from others. The poem “Legal Alien” is about a woman of Mexican parents‚ who is born and raised in America. An American citizen established by law‚ but at the same time
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Edwards was a Texan settler and land speculator. In 1824‚ he received a land grant from the Mexican government‚ allowing him to settle families in East Texas. His grant had included the city of Nacogdoches and he soon angered many previous settlers. After his contract was revoke‚ he and his brother‚ Benjamin‚ declared their colony to be called the Republic of Fredonia. Edwards was forced to flee Texas when the Mexican army arrived to put an end to the rebellion. He did not return until after the Texas Revolution
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Set in the environment of ethnic and racial paranoia that defined the early 1940s in Los Angeles‚ California‚ the "Zoot Suit Riots" were a defining moment for Zoot Suiters and the Mexican American community. The ethnic populations of California as a whole‚ and Los Angeles in particular‚ were under siege. In March and April of 1942‚ the entire Japanese and Japanese American population on the West Coast of the United States were deported to "relocation centers" (mild euphemisms for concentration camps)
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