Essays on Latina

Handbook for an Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy Mother, and Still Came Out Smiling (with Great Hair) is the story of broadway and film star Rosie Perez’s tumultuous and turbulent childhood. As a very young child, Rosie was placed in a Catholic home for children in the heart of New York City where she and numerous other children suffered unspeakable abuse at the hands of the nuns. Amazingly, Perez was able to turn the abuse she suffered into fuel and determination to drive her wildly successful dance and theatre career. Perez broke boundaries ...

The memoir of Raquel Cepeda Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina is an exploration of the modern age racial identity. On the other hand, in her memoir, Brother Am Dying, Edwidge Danticat offers a deep reflection on the personal sacrifices that her parents went through to come to the United States. Also, she offers the reasons why her uncle chose to remain in his home country Although the two memoirs are dramatically different in content and style, both authors try to come to a new understanding of a critical aspect of their identity. One may argue that the ...

Women have been the subject of discrimination and inequality in the past. And despite the societal progress and development, as well as the emergence of legislations that protect their rights, women remain to experience inequality in one way or another. One of the inequality that is still prevalent today, even in progressive countries is the gender wage gap. The gender wage gap is defined as the average difference of the hourly earnings between men and women (European, 2) A study conducted at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research revealed that women were paid lower than men in a ...

Discrimination and racial profiling are rife in the United States. The United States is a country whose majority are white people with minority groups of Latin Americans, Native Americans, African Americans and Asian Americans. Discrimination ranges from denial to access education, the ownership of land, the right to vote, employment, lending, housing, and immigration. The government has made taken measures to end discrimination by categorizing it as morally objectionable and socially unacceptable. Despite stringent measures being put in place by the government, cases of racial discrimination and victimization continue to happen. This has led the individual groups into taking ...

The philosopher Plato once claimed that the purpose of education is “to ensure that the habit and aspirations of the old generation are transmitted to the younger- and then presumably to the next one after that” (Plochmann). In “Reporting Live from Tomorrow,” from his book Stumbling On Happiness, Daniel Gilbert likens this transmission of beliefs to the process of genetic replication, arguing that like bad genes, false beliefs—those which do not, in fact, contribute to an individual’s happiness—can easily become “super-replicators,” within a culture (Gilbert 171). In Julia Alvarez’s Once Upon a Quinceañera, the ...

People tend to believe in many things in their life. There is a great number of rights and wrongs that people have established in their minds. For, example, children is a source of happiness. These believes that tend to make people happy are called super replicators. Thesis+2 Main Ideas: People believe that certain things should be replenished in order to guarantee them life or happiness and it is called super replicator, but there are other people who do not share this opinion. Daniel Gilbert and Julia Alvarez take a position on the debate regarding super replicator. They believe ...

The paper’s focus will be on the book ‘The House on Mango Street’, particularly, the experiences of the Esperanza family. An investigation of the experiences of Esperanza and her family is critically presented. The way Esperanza and her family relate with her family, community and the existing tensions is also established. As a coming of age novel, Sandra Cisneros’s book is critically analyzed from the social angle. The life of Esperanza Codero illuminates the struggles and experiences of growing up in Chicago. As a young girl, she serves an ideal subject from where we can study the ...

The controversy over the understanding of ethnicity and ethnicity unfolded in America and Europe in the early 1970s following the collapse of the colonial system. Many foreign and domestic scientists are engaged in the consideration of the complexity of inter-ethnic relations that has arisen within countries (the so-called “ethnic paradox of our time”). Most of them in their studies refer to the concept of social constructivism (Berger, & Luckmann). This approach allows one to display the natural multiplicity of ethnic identity. Supporters of this trend claim that the ethnic consciousness can have multiple layers; it can be forked and split ...

Renee Tajima-Pena and Virginia Espinso’s 2015 documentary No Mas Bebes tells the harrowing tale of a number of Mexican immigrant mothers who found themselves the victims of forced sterilization after visiting Los Angeles County General Hospital in the 1970s to give birth. The documentary delves into a number of vital and important issues central to Latina rights, reproductive rights, and the state of immigrant relations in the United States. In its depiction of the implicit horrors of the Mexican immigrant experience, these individuals are shown as brave victims of a system that punishes women for being immigrants, thus ...

Workplace discrimination has been around for decades in most parts of the world. Discrimination refers to the disparate treatment of workers based on social and physiological indicators such as age, gender, race/ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation. The pervasiveness of discrimination manifests in the adverse psychological, social, occupational, and sometimes physical effects that the vice has on the victims. Over the last four decades, several countries have enacted antidiscrimination laws due to the mounting awareness and public outcry regarding workplace discrimination. These laws, coupled with avenues for redress in the courts, have been effective in significantly reducing cases of overt ...