Thesis: The United States oppressed Latino immigrants by exploiting Bracero Workers and by sterilizing Latina women. BODY 1 TS1: The Bracero Program exploited Latino workers by mistreating them and unfairly paying them. EV1: Octavio Camarena, a college student from Mexico, wanted to go to the US to continue his studies in Architectural Engineering. The Bracero Program helped Camarena raise money to go to school, but on difficult terms. For example, Camarena and his co workers worked long hours under hard conditions. In an article where Camarena explained his usual work day he stated that, “...men pulled railroad ties from the ground, under 110-115 degree weather in Arizona deserts. Each rail tie weighed 300 pounds…work days stretched for 10 …show more content…
EV1: A poor white woman named Carrie Buck was sterilized in 1927 because her mother was “feebleminded”. A Youtube video titled “Fixed To Fail: Buck vs. Bell / Forced Sterilization Eugenics” it explains that, “Carrie was assumed to have inherited these traits, and was sterilized after giving birth”. The sterilization of Buck shows that scientists thought that intelligence could be passed down and marginalizes people who are “unintelligent” AP1: Most sterilizations are used to protect societies from certain genes. An illustration of a tree from 1921 by the American Philosophical Society is labeled “Eugenics” and shows the terms Statistics, Genetics, Biology, Education, Economics, and more all connecting and rooting from the tree. The illustration displays how people from the early 1900’s saw how society worked. AP2: In a Eugenicist’s perspective, to keep the White Race pure and clean, the ones who will harm the race have to be eliminated. Carrie Buck is an example of who can harm the White Race because since she is seen as unintelligent, her offspring can also be unintelligent and later the gene could spread therefore harming the White Race. This Eugenic ideology shows that any inferior trait such as unintelligent is unhealthy for the White
The eugenics movement started in the early 1900s and was adopted by doctors and the general public during the 1920s. The movement aimed to create a better society through the monitoring of genetic traits through selective heredity. Over time, eugenics took on two different views. Supporters of positive eugenics believed in promoting childbearing by a class who was “genetically superior.” On the contrary, proponents of negative eugenics tried to monitor society’s flaws through the sterilization of the “inferior.”
...ng on Justice Douglas view, it is not right to use genetics and issues of hereditary in legal decisions (Reilly, 1991). Such natural aspects should not violate the individual’s right of procreation and fourteen amendments. Everybody is therefore entitled to basic civic rights. Eugenics movement disappeared after the atrocities by the Germany regime. Although Holmes there was overturning of Homes decision eventually, Ms. Buck and many feebleminded American citizens were victims of State and Supreme Court immorality. Reviewing of the focus period, neither society nor individual got benefits of Compulsory sterilization statutes. The change of attitudes towards mental handicapped people over time is interesting. From late 1950s in the United States, civil and women rights movement, contribute to acts governing the handicapped rights including their rights to reproduce.
Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzales is a must-read book for anyone who wants to know about the history of Latino immigrants. In America, Latino immigrants are now considered as the fastest growing ethnic group. Gonzalez started off by talking about the history of Latinos in America. He talked about from the times when Spain and Britain made territorial conquest of America and all the way until the present day. He divided the book into three sections calling the sections “Roots”, “Branches” and then “Harvest”.
United States labor officials approached the Mexican Department of Migration about a controlled and managed system of legal migration. The Bracero Program offered Mexicans the opportunity to legally work in the United States. Braceros were healthy, landless, and surplus male agricultural workers from areas in Mexico not experiencing a labor shortage. Braceros met the labor need to American agri-businessmen, but Hernandez counters that the Bracero Program was a system of labor exploitation, a project of masculinity and modernization, and a sit of gendered
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The Latino community is a very varied community each with its own unique past and circumstances. In the book Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzalez the readers can learn and appreciate some of the experiences and history that the different Latino groups had. This book does this with a special emphasis on immigration trends. These points of emphasis of the book are explained thoroughly in the identification of the key points, the explanation of the intersection of race, ethnicity, and class, in addition to the overall evaluation of the book.
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The practice of eugenics was instituted in the late nineteenth century. Its objective was to apply the rearing practices and procedures utilized as a part of plants and creatures to human procreation. Francis Galton expressed in his Essays in Eugenics that he wished to impact "the useful classes" in the public arena to put a greater amount of their DNA in the gene pool. The objective was to gather records of families who were effective by virtue of having three or more grown-up male kids who had better positions than their associates. His perspective on eugenics can best be expressed by the accompanying section:
Feagin, Joe R. “The First U.S Latinos: White Wealth and Mexican Labor.” Richard and Jean 67.
Portes, Alejandro, and Ruben G. Rumbaut. Immigrant America: A Portrait. N.p.: University of California Press, 2006.
To say that immigrants in America have experienced discrimination would be an understatement. Ever since the country formed, they have been seen as inferior, such as African-Americans that were unwillingly brought to the 13 colonies in the 17th century with the intention to be used as slaves. However, post-1965, immigrants, mainly from Central and South America, came here by choice. Many came with their families, fleeing from their native land’s poverty; these immigrants were in search of new opportunities, and more importantly, a new life. They faced abuse and Cesar Chavez fought to help bring equality to minorities.
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When created in 1923, the American Eugenics Society exemplified an air of reform with a seemingly positive purpose, however this cannot be further from the truth. In reality, the society polluted the air with myths of weeding out imperfections with the Galtonian ideal, the breeding of the fittest (Carison). The founder of the society, Charles Davensport , preached that those who are imperfect should be eliminated(Marks). From the school desk to the pulpit, the fallacies of the eugenics movement were forced into society. Preachers often encouraged the best to marry the best while biology professors would encourage DNA testing to find out ones fate (Selden). A...