Chicano Studies

  A Summary               There are many things that I learned from this class and some an extension from what I’ve already known being an enthusiast in Chicano/Latino studies. For one, I learned about Gloria E. Anzaldúa on Mestiza Consciousness which is a copy of WEB DuBois’s Double Consciousness but from a Chicano perspective. I learned about Jose Coello on What does Chicano mean? and Suzanne Oboler’s The Politics of Labeling. Latino/a Cultural Identities of Self and Other. Coello’s breakdown of Chicano history learn thought me a lot from the roots of Chicano history, the meaning behind the term, why the movement started, as well as the art, music, and poetry that circulated around the movement. Oboler’s book thought me of the meaning of labels and the pros and cons behind labels. I already was familiar with the Zoot Suit Riots and East LA Walkouts from self-learning and I’ve seen Prejudice and Pride before from ...

  Las relaciones personales   Hola, buenas noches amigos. Mi nombre es Salomón. Me gusta la naturaleza. Mi blog es este. Mi pregunta podrías responder por favor: que to favorito de vacaciones donde esta? y tu gusta la ciudad o el pueblo? 1) Me gusta visitar la playa. 2) Si me gusta practicar deporte en la naturaleza. El aire es fresco. 3) Conservar el medio ambiente; Reciclar y utilizar energia sostenible. 4) Mi favorito para la naturaleza es Costa Rica. Lo visite en 2014. Si regresaria , si. También me gusto Morelos, México. Puebla; el pueblo de Tepoztlan. 5) Mi recomendacion daría ; Italia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Africa, y America del Sur para visitas a la naturaleza. Me gustan las vacaciones. Eso es todo. Gracias por leer. Mi blog de vacaciones y naturaleza. Debajo estan mis fotos. Esto es en Tepoztlan, Morelos, Mexico. Mi voluntario para un orfanato. Varano 2013 y 2014 con United with Service , una organización para musulmanes. Esta es en Enero 2014 con San J...

A History of Violence               Reflecting on a History of Violence by Oscar Martinez is a great book about the history of Central America and its violence nature, how did it start and where do we go from here. The Central American countries of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala has some of the highest rates of homicides in the world, with El Salvador being the most violent out of the 3 countries. The violence and crushing poverty led to thousands fleeing their homeland every day desperate to enter the United States. The effects of climate change have brought devastating droughts to the region. Moreover, the Obama Administration has deported thousands of illegal aliens who belong to some of these violent gangs back to their homelands. These gangs go back into their countries and are causing violence and terror among the inhabitants. Running drug smuggling gangs from the cities to the rural villages. The conditions of...

Throughout the class we learned of the many issues, cultures, phenomenon, and innovations brought to the mainland Americas and around the world from Mexico. Much of the class focuses on the struggles and inequalities that was brought onto Chican/o upon the arrival of the conquistadors. Some of the incentives that came from colonialism is the influence of music upon the island and other Latino nations. As Say-Mean-Matter would point out by making the connotation that Latin-America generally is an open wound, constantly bleeding. We all factor in racism, slavery, socio-economic class divisions, displacements, colonialism, imperialism, identity, etc. that the Mexican skirmishes with and has had to in the course of its colonial rule. I would also like to factor in the use of popular culture as a unifying force in Latinx and how it brings people together.

There are many problems that are present in the United States, and too many to resolve in just a single term or within a couple of terms even. We need solidarity within America, and we need to come together to criminalize the corrupt that suppresses the working people. We have to fight fascism. There is too many infighting between Americans, even within the parties. The Parties are divided and have subdivisions. You have the Democrats, then you have the far left. You have the Republicans, then you have the far right. Among them you have the DINOs and the RINOs, which stands for Democrats In Name Only, and Republicans In Name Only. There is an emptiness within the parties and people use it to their own gain. Among those issues, you have corporations middling within the parties and being the puppet master from afar. They are controlling our politicians and they are no longer representation the people but corporations. We have to come together for one common goal. The Trump had one comm...

  Who Is MS-13?   We often hear about MS-13 in the news, at first; some 15 years ago, they were like a cult like gang because of the little information we had on them. Being that the members swore secrecy and not speaking to outsiders. A majority of them were also illegal immigrants so they had to keep under the radar. Sure, the gang did start in Los Angeles, California but they soon got deported back to El Salvador where the gang grew rapidly. Los Angeles was already hailed as a gang capital; so, they decided to move more suburban areas like the Bay Area, Central California, Washington State, and other suburbs throughout the U.S. like Virginia, Long Island, Maryland, and New Jersey. Although you have gangs in that area too, but MS-13 did not have any records with law enforcement there because they had almost zero-to-no history in those areas and they could easily start fresh. They wanted to spread their numbers and make money for the gang by way of trafficking (drugs, arm...

  Mexican Gang – Norteños   The gang the I selected to go over in my essay are the Northern California based gang, the Norteños. I choose this gang because of my familiarity of the gang being raised in Northern California, specifically the East Bay. I am from Union City, and we have two sets of the Norteños gang in our town, one being Old Alvarado in the westside of town, and the other being Decoto being on the east side of town. Both sets came up relatively around the same time, being the 1970s. It was always a Hispanic community, due to being a farming town at one point so the gang was always around; however, with the integration of prison gangs in the late 60’s and into the 1970’s they became part of the Norteños. The Norteños are street soldiers so to speak of the prison based La Nuestra Familia (NF). The gang formed in the Duel Vocational institute in Tracy, CA in the late 1960’s. Ironically enough, the gang first gained notoriety as being an offshoot gang of the Me...