My idea for this blog is to show my thought process in analyzing if there is a huge difference between what Americans and other people think of Latinos and/or Chicanos. Also I want to look for if there has ever been or will ever be a united bloc or front or whatever you want to call it of immigrants from Mexico or from a general collection of Central and South American countries.
After recently reading Walls and Mirrorsby David G. Gutiérrez, I do not think that there will ever be a general unity. As he talks about the intense debates over the immigration position, the biggest consensus that has been achieved was on the Simpson-Rodino immigration proposals. But as we talked about in class on Wednesday it was shown that not everybody came to an agreement and that a huge rift was set between CASA and the new Chicano movement. It's obvious that an organization with such socialist roots and theories, like CASA, would be eliminated during the red scare, but I personally believe that this type of thinking could make a come back. Granted Cuba is going down the tubes and Chavez's attempt in Venezuela failed, with the economy in the United States the way it is and also in Mexico a large population is becoming frustrated not only with the structural racism, but the government as a whole.
In the L.A. times today an article talks about the loss of 17,000 jobs in the US and the fears of a recession.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-jobs2feb02,1,6839828.story
We could be seeing a major change in Latino/Chicano politics or it could just stay the way it is, pretty much in the back ground...but I'm betting on the former.
1 comment:
I agree with the part of when you say that you dont think there will ever be not unity but people that dont go hand in hand with each other as a whole, I also belive that a gap will always exist between immigrants, illegal immigrants and americans who were once immigrants, the same goes for republicans as for democrats. even though they may be of the same nationality there is still that division between them and everyone else that choses to belong to a certain group.
Noe Valdovinos
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