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The following assignment is due on Thursday March 10th at noon. Please address the following two chapters and cover the the points in each in four paragraphs total.
Chapter 11 Main Point:
Describe the impact of the growth of second generation
on the Mexican struggle for political and socioeconomic rights.
Chapter 12 Main Points:
Analyze the relationship between education
and political empowerment for Mexican Americans and other people of color in
the 1950's.
Utilize the video below and some of the
concepts within your writing. While we used the video in a prior
assignment, determine whether some of the thoughts and observations from the
video parallel the readings. https://youtu.be/yaWrFCHbRt8
only use references from ''Acuna Occupied
America'' and ''youtube video'' !!!!
Chapters 11/12 Acuna Occupied America
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Chapter 11
Second-generation
Mexicans are born in the United States and second parents from Mexico. The
third generation is of Mexican origin, but all the parents were born in the
united states. The third and the second-generation Mexican population in the
United States have a different fairer treatment than their first-generation
counterparts. The whites claimed cultural legitimacy and property rights (Acuna,
2019).
The Immigration and the Nationality Act of
1965 eliminated the immigration wave from Africa, Asians, and the Americas. The
most important feature of the immigration and nationality Act acknowledged the integration
of economic and social mobility on Mexican children. Overly, the Mexican
immigrants; the second generation life was improved but not significant compared
to the lives of their whites' counterparts. There exists a gap in economic
perspectives, but the disparity is significantly reduced compared to the times
before WWII and the first-generation Mexicans. The second-generation Mexicans are
able to enjoy a higher, even more, decent education system, which is
consequently resulting in more well-paying jobs, unlike it was half a century
ago. Today it is important to note that the school dropout among the Mexicans
equally get job opportunities at nearly the same rate the whites dropout get;
however, these jobs still do not offer the best wages for these people; they
have few benefits and do offer less upward job mobility. The social, political,
and economic gap between the whites and the Mexicans is still prevalent, and
the achievements of children of these two different things are evident in the
school enrollment patterns.
Chapter 12
Before the 1950s, the Mexicans and other people of color in the united states were subjected to segregation and depression. The people of color and the Latinos attended different schools and lived in different residential divides. The Mexicans, on their immigration to the united states, were subjected to the quota system. The Mexicans in the united states further faced discrimination and racially-based violence. The political heavyweights in the Mexican communities seeking fair representation of the Mexicans were met with opposition and persecution...
