Blauner's Hypothesis and the Hispanics' Term Paper

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The case of the Hispanic race was no different from the black Americans'. One of the rapidly increasing minority groups in the country, even surpassing the African-American minority group, Hispanics had experienced similar conditions that made them a colonized minority group. Hispanics demonstrate the characteristics that Blauner argued as illustrative of the African-American experience: firstly, they (Hispanics) belong to the economic periphery and secondly, they become susceptible to greater racial discrimination.

Hispanics are a colonized minority group because they are not given sufficient economic support in the society. Most members of this minority group engage in labor with lower-than-the-minimum wages; this is a result of Hispanics being illegal migrants in the country. As a result of these low incomes, Hispanics move further towards the economic periphery due to lack of opportunities, such as availing proper health services and attaining higher educational attainment.

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Apart from becoming part of the socio-economically underprivileged, Hispanics as a colonized minority group experience racial discrimination as they become associated with deviant activities that most members of the group engage in due to limited opportunities and privileges. This includes stereotyping Hispanic women as househelpers, while Hispanic men are often associated with drugs and street violence. Evidently, today's characterization of Hispanics do not greatly differ from the African-American experience, who, along with the Hispanics, still suffer discrimination and prejudices that Blauner stated as emergent due to their colonization by the white American society.

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