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One of the rapidly increasing minority groups in the country, even surpassing the African-American minority group, Hispanics had experienced similar conditions that made them a colonized minority group. Hispanics demonstrate the characteristics that Blauner argued as illustrative of the African-American experience: firstly, they (Hispanics) belong to the economic periphery and secondly, they become susceptible to greater racial discrimination.
Hispanics are a colonized minority group because they are not given sufficient economic support in the society. Most members of this minority group engage in labor with lower-than-the-minimum wages; this is a result of Hispanics being illegal migrants in the country. As a result of these low incomes, Hispanics move further towards the economic periphery due to lack of opportunities, such as availing proper health services...
This includes stereotyping Hispanic women as househelpers, while Hispanic men are often associated with drugs and street violence. Evidently, today's characterization of Hispanics do not greatly differ from the African-American experience, who, along with the Hispanics, still suffer discrimination and prejudices that Blauner stated as emergent due to their colonization by the white American society.
Works Cited
Blauner, B. (2001). Still the Big News: Racial Oppression in America. NY: Temple University Press.
Works Cited
Blauner, B. (2001). Still the Big News: Racial Oppression in America. NY: Temple University Press.
Such a presence can contributes to the media-generated stereotype of the limited aspirational level of the community in the so-called 'white world,' much in the same way that negative portraits of African-Americans create a form of internal colonialization through media fixations upon Black criminals, for example, as opposed to Black civic and professional leaders, although such leaders exist. (Moore, 1997) The possibility of some community individuals being affected by internal
bias based on gender, race, or ethnicity considered unacceptable, in some instances, like employment or pay status, it can be illegal. Our nation does not condone discrimination on factors like these, and for many years we have, as a whole, enforced laws and policies that make racist or biased behavior difficult to institute. This attention to equality, however, does not mean that racism, gender bias, or other biases do