Mexican American Studies
Self Preservation & the Right to Exist:
by Mexican Americans born and raised in the US
Julian Camacho: (US Birth Certificate states Caucasian and Tomato Packer for father)
Ruben Lopez: (US birth certificate states Caucasian and Unknown for father)
1. Chicano refers only to Mexican American, meaning US born
2. Mexican American refers to people of both parents and or 3 grandparents of Mexican American origin
3. Mexican American does not include mix people
4. Mexican Americans are racialized as White on birth certificates and student enrollment purposes but treated as non-White
5. Mexican Americans do not immigrate to the US therefore immigration is a non-issue
6. Mexico does not recognize Mexican Americans as citizens but as foreigners
7. Mexican Americans are a National Minority because of US conquest
8. Mexican Americans are desert US people distinct from Puerto Ricans and Cubans who are Caribbean Island people, Chicanos are mainlanders not islanders
9. Mexican American identity is rooted in US history from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to the many Mexican American Civil Rights Movements
10. US Commerce Department on Birth Certificate forms classify Mexican Americans as a distinct category independent of people born in Mexico and from Centro and South America
11. Mexican Americans because they are arid people of Aztlan (Deserts of the US) according to Dr. Daniel Potter, MD, their DNA is unique, separate, distinct from people in Southern Mexico and no relationship to Centro Americans who are tropical people
12. Mexican American culture is defined by birth, upbringing, tradition and folklore
13. Mexican Americans are defined by the 14th Amendment as US born and various Supreme Court Cases such as Cisneros, Hernandez and Miranda Cases
14. Mexican Americans according to the US 2000 Census earn the least of all groups in the US at $9400.00 of annual earnings
15. Mexican American comprise 9 out of every 10 Spanish Surnames in California
16. Mexican American US population is 30 million whereas Puerto Ricans in the US are 4 million which is the next closes group
17. Mexican Americans account for 1 out every 14 US person
18. Mexican Americans are the only native people from California, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado because of their pre USA existence
19. Mexican American literature works reference only Mexican Americans not Salvadorians or Shakespeare
20. Mexican Americans are a recognized US culture through language: Spanglish; food; art; identity; accent and blood
21. Mexican Americans cannot be deported nor can their citizenship be revoked
22. In Black Studies, non Blacks are not allowed to teach therefore why are non Chicanos allowed in Mexican American Studies
23. In Women Studies, males are not allowed to teach then why are non Mexican Americans allowed in Mexican American Studies
24. Due to the fact that there are no Mexican American PhD programs, how relevant is a PhD only candidate for Mexican American Studies?
25. The CSU allows for expertise qualification then why does the same standard not apply to CSULA Chicano Studies
26. MA Terminal degrees in Theater, Fine Arts and creative writing is permitted why is it not for Chicano Studies or other relevant MA programs including publications
27. Hiring of non Mexican Americans purposely undercuts Mexican Americans of employment opportunities at CSULA, which is an indication of the highest unemployment rates in the state of California
28. Mexican American cultural distinctions set them apart from Mexico and Latin American born by: identity, accent, culture, race, psychology, experience and poverty
29. Mexican Americans have been in the US longer than any other “Latino” in particular to California
30. By merging Mexican American history with other Latinos, the assumption is that Mexican Americans do not have their own history, then what does Tex Mex, burrito, Zoot Suit, lowriders, Serrano vs Priest, Mendez vs. Westminster, Californian, Apache, Pueblo mean? Does that refer to people from El Salvador and Cuba?
31. What relevance do California Mexican American historical sites have? Such as the San Pascual Pass Museum in San Diego, Cahuenga Signing House, Pio Pico House, Rancho de Cerritos Adobe, The Centinela Adobe, the San Fernando Mission, The Avila Adobe in Montebello. Does this refer to Latinos from Central America, people from the Caribbean and the Philippines Islands because they have Spanish surnames?
32. Would the word Chicano also apply to Phillipinos or Spaniards because they have Spanish surnames? Where does one draw the fine line?
33. Did Latinos from Central and South America face segregation-legal or have their property eminent domained?
34. Did the voting rights act apply to people from Centro and South America?
35. The exclusion of Mexican Americans in the current curriculum development has interrupted the academic understanding of those born in the US and of multiple generations
36. Latinos do not have a comprehension, command, grasp of Mexican Americans therefore how can they teach about them, if even Mexico born do not understand them and they are closer by geography
37. Latinos incorporate US societal bigotry of Mexican Americans into the teaching realm
38. In the current era, Mexican American males face higher unemployment rates then their female counterparts and there is no educational awareness of the impact on the Mexican American community, whereas Columbia University is being sued by a male student because they do not have a male center versus a women’s center.
39. Chicano male needs are not being addressed, whereas Chicana feminist issues are openly welcomed and encouraged through White feminist ideology because White females have been the largest recipients of affirmative action and Title IX at the expense of Mexican American males visible in the low graduation rates of the men
40. The current hiring practice discriminates against Mexican Americans who have published books on Mexican Americans
41. The name change from Chicano Studies at other CSU to Chicano/Chicana Studies or Chicano/Latinos Studies set a bad precedent because it allowed for the name change to include non Mexican Americans, including the hiring of non Mexican Americans such as Puerto Ricans, Spaniards or Mexico born (including the current chair at CSULB or at CSULA)
42. CSULA Chair admitted and stated that just as the word “n” was redefined by Blacks to mean a term of endearment, we can change the meaning of Mexican American
43. CSULA chair was asked what was his definition of Mexican American and he did not answer, meaning the chairs own admission to want to name of the department and simultaneously had no clear answer to what Mexican American was
The ideal of lumping an American minority group with a foreign population is both racist and incomprehensible. This is racist because CSULA and many other governmental institutions want to artificially piece everybody in the same category without respect to Mexican American citizenry and history of which many are multi-generational, meaning from 3rd to 6th generations.
By merging Mexican Americans with others, Chicanos stand to lose more because scarce resources in academic teaching positions, student slots or job development programs are then diminished and allocated to non Mexican Americans. Which in turn as in the case of the name change for Chicano Studies, these outsiders have changed the curriculum or the departmental degree name into something non Chicano. For example, when current chair of CSULA was asked where was he at in the early 1970’s during the Mexican American Civil Rights movement by Agustin Cebada, a participant and a Mexican American born in New Mexico of Pueblo ancestry, the chair responded that he was in Mexico. Which is precisely the point that the Mexican American fight for equal US citizenry is in the US not in Mexico or in any other country of Latin America.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Apache Mexican: Intermarriage and becoming White
Apache Mexican: Intermarriage and becoming White: "'By Jonah Goldberg May 31, 2011; Los Angeles Times 'Princeton's Cornel West, one of the most famous black intellectuals in America, says ..."
Friday, June 3, 2011
Intermarriage and becoming White
"By Jonah Goldberg
May 31, 2011; Los Angeles Times
"Princeton's Cornel West, one of the most famous black intellectuals in America, says that President Obama is afraid of "free black men." Because of Obama's atypical upbringing, West says, "when he meets these independent black folk who have a history of slavery, Jim Crow, Jane Crow [sic] and so on, he is very apprehensive. He has a certain rootlessness, a de-racination."
I like this debate from Cornel West who is actually talking some reality and defining what Black is which is by two parents and telling Whites that their offspring is also White even if they look Black. Cornel West is saying Obama does not have the Black history and treatment as such when he alludes to Jim Crow. He might be Black looking but he's not Black, especially when mama is White. This is vital because he's saying apart from his Wall Street politics of favoritism that he's ignoring the job crisis which is what Civil Rights was all about but he's also challenging the White imposition of identity on Blacks. When Whites procreate with Blacks, Whites view the offspring as Black but the truth is that they are White and that is ignored. Cornel is saying to be Black means you must come from both parents and Whites should accept their kin and mixed Whites should comprehend that they are not the same as Blacks especially when history is thrown in. Torii Hunter was correct when he said that Carribbean baseball players were not Black in the US definition.
This made me think about Mexican Americans and in particular the women who marry out and have the highest intermarriage rates in the US according to National Geographic and as one Mexican American woman stated named Marlette Cortez, she knows a good number of Mexican American women who want their White male trophy. With these high intermarriage rates to Whites and men of other cultures their offspring must be viewed in the context of their reproduction, that their offspring become those peoples for blood, culture, appearance, philosophy, history. They do stop being Mexican American if they ever were because if they were Mexico born then they never were even if raised in the US but Whites like to consider them Mexican Americans without considering those of us by both parents who are Mexican Americans. I personally don't consider them Mexican Americans but what the parent married into because ultimately that is what woman wanted, to leave the skin she carried.
And because this is a phenomenon of women marrying out because under the human rule women chose and make themselves available to men, the same social context cannot be extended to Mexican American males because they on the otherhand chose what comes to them. In other words, Mexican American males can't be picky because there aren't than many options so they are very limited in availibilty and sometimes that means that the psychological personalogical test is ignored when shouldn't because there is a fear that another will not pay attention and that is fear to live by. A recent study in young people revealed that sex for males reaffirms and enhances their confidence so every time a woman says yes which wasn't very often for me in my early 20's, the feeling of not being wanted is a reality and now as near 50's, as my friend Ron said, imagine being 65, there is less loving.
The part I hate the most is the institutional racism visible in many places when White institutions use Whites with a Mexican parent to claim that they are being inclusive. It is the most dishonest, racist insulting practice spit at those of us who didn't benefit from that racial inclusion. That Whiteness and white name means better opportunities, no bad credit and the opportunity to hear all the bigotry first hand which is what Whiteness means and the White girls because they aren't looking at us dark black hair people. I can tell you from someone who grew up in Lennox-one of the most dense Mexican nieghborhoods where everything was outside of the unincorporated strips from the movies, to high school, churches and even the morgues. The only places that existed where two of the most dirtiest supermarkets that would make you vomit as you entered them and the ugliest post office in America. Anybody who lived here felt hell was a better place at least the she devils would pay attention.
So those Whites with a Mexican parent wouldn't live this because their mother procreated to get out for all love is economical. Therefore when institutions hire Whites and try to pass them off as Mexicans that is really one of the most disrespectful and racist acts because it maintains Whites in power and covertly discriminates against us Mexican Americans. And they get away with it. So Cornel is right, they don't know what it's like to live as vermin.
And for those that argue it wasn't their fault, they didn't chose to be born that way, I would say neither did I but I pay for that appearance and you benefit from that look.
May 31, 2011; Los Angeles Times
"Princeton's Cornel West, one of the most famous black intellectuals in America, says that President Obama is afraid of "free black men." Because of Obama's atypical upbringing, West says, "when he meets these independent black folk who have a history of slavery, Jim Crow, Jane Crow [sic] and so on, he is very apprehensive. He has a certain rootlessness, a de-racination."
I like this debate from Cornel West who is actually talking some reality and defining what Black is which is by two parents and telling Whites that their offspring is also White even if they look Black. Cornel West is saying Obama does not have the Black history and treatment as such when he alludes to Jim Crow. He might be Black looking but he's not Black, especially when mama is White. This is vital because he's saying apart from his Wall Street politics of favoritism that he's ignoring the job crisis which is what Civil Rights was all about but he's also challenging the White imposition of identity on Blacks. When Whites procreate with Blacks, Whites view the offspring as Black but the truth is that they are White and that is ignored. Cornel is saying to be Black means you must come from both parents and Whites should accept their kin and mixed Whites should comprehend that they are not the same as Blacks especially when history is thrown in. Torii Hunter was correct when he said that Carribbean baseball players were not Black in the US definition.
This made me think about Mexican Americans and in particular the women who marry out and have the highest intermarriage rates in the US according to National Geographic and as one Mexican American woman stated named Marlette Cortez, she knows a good number of Mexican American women who want their White male trophy. With these high intermarriage rates to Whites and men of other cultures their offspring must be viewed in the context of their reproduction, that their offspring become those peoples for blood, culture, appearance, philosophy, history. They do stop being Mexican American if they ever were because if they were Mexico born then they never were even if raised in the US but Whites like to consider them Mexican Americans without considering those of us by both parents who are Mexican Americans. I personally don't consider them Mexican Americans but what the parent married into because ultimately that is what woman wanted, to leave the skin she carried.
And because this is a phenomenon of women marrying out because under the human rule women chose and make themselves available to men, the same social context cannot be extended to Mexican American males because they on the otherhand chose what comes to them. In other words, Mexican American males can't be picky because there aren't than many options so they are very limited in availibilty and sometimes that means that the psychological personalogical test is ignored when shouldn't because there is a fear that another will not pay attention and that is fear to live by. A recent study in young people revealed that sex for males reaffirms and enhances their confidence so every time a woman says yes which wasn't very often for me in my early 20's, the feeling of not being wanted is a reality and now as near 50's, as my friend Ron said, imagine being 65, there is less loving.
The part I hate the most is the institutional racism visible in many places when White institutions use Whites with a Mexican parent to claim that they are being inclusive. It is the most dishonest, racist insulting practice spit at those of us who didn't benefit from that racial inclusion. That Whiteness and white name means better opportunities, no bad credit and the opportunity to hear all the bigotry first hand which is what Whiteness means and the White girls because they aren't looking at us dark black hair people. I can tell you from someone who grew up in Lennox-one of the most dense Mexican nieghborhoods where everything was outside of the unincorporated strips from the movies, to high school, churches and even the morgues. The only places that existed where two of the most dirtiest supermarkets that would make you vomit as you entered them and the ugliest post office in America. Anybody who lived here felt hell was a better place at least the she devils would pay attention.
So those Whites with a Mexican parent wouldn't live this because their mother procreated to get out for all love is economical. Therefore when institutions hire Whites and try to pass them off as Mexicans that is really one of the most disrespectful and racist acts because it maintains Whites in power and covertly discriminates against us Mexican Americans. And they get away with it. So Cornel is right, they don't know what it's like to live as vermin.
And for those that argue it wasn't their fault, they didn't chose to be born that way, I would say neither did I but I pay for that appearance and you benefit from that look.
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