Today, Thursday May 1st 2014, Activists held a May Day march in downtown Portland,OR to promote immigration reform and workers rights. There were about 500 people that gathered for the peaceful demonstration and they were also joined by Portland State University’s Student Union. Coming from a small town near Portland, I think It’s great that the community continues to have marches for May Day and that they keep continuing awareness about these issues regarding immigrants and workers. I think it helps remind our society that these issues have not gone away and that something needs to be done about it. http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/05/may_day_march_is_loud_but_peac.html
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In the epilogue of “Is Antonio Banderas a Chicano” left me second guessing myself about the vague term “Chicano”. According to the reading it continues to evolve. We ultimately construct what it means to ourselves through what we surround ourselves with. Such a term gives off our identity, an identity we create. Acuna does a great job in putting the whole term “Chicano” into perspective, specifically when he mentions about loving gang kids while hating gangs. We must do what we can to continue to develop our identity so that we have a better understanding of our history as well as our future.
-Lionor Galindo
After researching this topic in detail I realized I wasn’t the only individual that wasn’t going through an identity crisis or faced discrimination from both Mexican and American cultures. I learned that cultural hybridity has been an ongoing topic for many years now and has been written about by many scholars and authors including Sandra Cisneros and Gloria Anzaldua. Researching this topic helped me realize the importance of being a cultural hybrid in society and understand why second generation mestizos are the way they are today.
During this research learned that we need to stop giving power to the stereotypes because the more power you give it the more relevant they stay. we need to understand the identity is always changing and many things affect out identity and by realizing this we can influence our identity or let others decide our identity for us. This will help the studies by showing more people the realization that Latinos have different ways of identifying themselves and we need to be accepting of them even if we don't completely agree with it.
The festival Coachella just passed. As I was researching celebrities at the festival I found an article that explained the truth behind Coachella. Coachella Valley is an arid agricultural region of inland California where a mostly Mexican labor force has worked for a mostly non-mexican landowning class for nearly a century. The festival has an upperclass feel, yet this festival is on the backs of Latinos, but they are receiving no credit for the name they have created.My research paper explored the way in which the dominant race plays a key role in the lives of minorities. Focusing on the zoot suit riots and the events that surrounded it, I found so much in common with the black panthers. Both of these groups made a point to work to protect their minority groups. Who do you think takes this role in society for
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