Allison Perez Brewington MEDIA 1 August 13, 2014 Latin American Women in Hollywood: Growing up my eyes were glued to the silver screen. The camera, settings, and actresses have captivated me since I was a little girl. In every movie I would see a beautiful light skinned girl portraying the lead role in most movies. I didn’t pay much attention to it until now, where I realize, I don’t know any Latin American actresses that I truly admire or look up too. It was then that I realized there was (and still
Representation Matters Whether people realize it or not, media shapes their personalities by exposing them to select viewpoints and contexts. When the entertainment industry portrays minorities in specific situations, it can influence people’s perception of those minorities because people tend to comprehend their characteristics through visual and aural interactions. This one-dimensional characterization has closed off the true, multi-faceted culture of these minorities. For example, Hispanics are
Hispanic are the third largest minority in the United States and are growing at a rapid pace. Furthermore, past and present Spanish touched our lives for the change of Hispanic Americans. Currently, the overview of Hispanic culture has broadened their minds on old and new traditions and customs. In many ways, Hispanic Americans has gone to long without broad representations in American. With this in mind, history has shown Hispanic rising in U.S. geographically, politics and social status. In
Mexicans in this region to become citizens. Two years later, California passed the Foreign Miners Tax, which taxed the holdings of Latin American and Chinese gold miners. This tax did not affect European miners and was the first legislation separating Latinos and Mexicans from Americans. In 1887 a federal district court in Texas upheld the right for Mexicans to naturalize under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. This upheld the notion of Mexicans to be white in the eyes of the law (Routledge 2007). When
The Hispanics in America were viewed more or less the same as the colored people. The thing is, compared to other minority group, Hispanic here are viewed as the lowest. There are many of the Hispanics who are illustrated as criminals, or ex-criminal, just like how they have always been stereotyped in American every-day life. The earth residents also tried
professional baseball player are of Hispanic decent. “Baseball demonstrates how deeply integrated Hispanics are in American sports culture”. (Conill.com, 2012) The first Latin Americans to play to sport were Esteban Bellán and Vincent Nava who were of Cuban and Mexican descent. In 1902, Colombian Luis Castro became the first Latin American born player in the major leagues since 1886 when he began playing for the Philadelphia A’s. Little by little a few more Latino players came on the scene but it