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 colonialization should not be lightly dismissed, even if some Hispanic communities have been able to counteract its effects with cultural neighborhood pride. Even groups such as immigrant Hispanics, that may vocally manifest strong group pride and idenitification may still, through the process of internal colonialism, assume that whites are more apt to become professionals and to suceed within the context of certain professions. Although much criticized today as self-defeating in nature, Blauner's hypothesis at the time the author first advanced it in the 1960's was an important sociological...
(Moore, 1997) Blauner himself may have made unfair or biased assumptions about a lack of Black success, because he blind to success stories much as the biased white America and internally colonized black Americans his study covered. Also, he jugged success based upon monetary terms, discounting cultural pride in the Black church, and Black success in American literature, sports, music, and entertainment.
Works Cited
Blauner, Robert. 1969. "Internal Colonialism and Ghetto Revolt." Social Problems. 16:393-408.
Moore, Joan. (1997) "Latino/a Studies: The Continued Need for New Paradigms."Occasional Paper 29. The Rand Group. Retrived 24 Oct 2005 at http://www.jsri.msu.edu/RandS/research/ops/oc29.html
