After reading the stories written by the author’s Gloria Anzalodua and Mike Davis and the poem by Pat Mora, I was able to gain insight as to how the Hispanic culture has effected the structure America. In Pat Mora’s poem “La Migra” which stands for immigration police, the reader is able to view a perspective of possibly American border patrol officer and a female Mexican maid. Through out the poem the awkward tension can be felt as you read both parts. For instance, a segment of the Mora’s writing states, “I can touch you wherever…I want but don’t complain too much because I’ve got boots and kick ---if I have to”(Mora). This suggested that the border patrol officer resorted to means of sexual and physical abuse while Mexican natives were apprehended. Anther example from Mora’s Poem reads, “I know this desert…where to rest…where to drink”(Mora). It was obvious that the this statement suggested that the border patrol officer might have been physically dominate over the Mexicans, but when it came to survival and adaptation the Mexican’s ruled supreme.
In the story written by Gloria Anzalodua “Borderlands: La Frontera”, the author highlights on the frustrations and anger that the Mexican border has brought amongst the inhabitants of Mexico. For instance, Gloria states, “These numerous possibilities leave la mestiza floundering in uncharted seas. In perceiving conflicting information and points of view, she is subjected to a swamping of her psychological borders. She has discovered that she cant hold concepts or ideas in rigid boundaries. The borders and walls that are supposed to keep the undesirable ideas out are entrenched habits and patterns of behavior; these habits and patterns are the enemy with in. rigidity means death.” (Anzalodua pg101). This passage clearly shows how the views and ideas of the Mexican population were disregarded on the opposite sides of the borders. The passage also states that people were willing to risk death to expand their ideas pass the borders. Towards the end of this passage the author states that there is a possible way to end the conflict of races and sexes by focusing our attention towards the center of the problem which lies within each individual person on each sides of the borders.
In Mike Davis’s passage titled “Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. City”, the author states certain statics that provide information which suggest that the Hispanic cultures rapid population increase will place them as the most dominant race of people in the near future. For instance in the segment titled “Spicing the city” written by Davis, a chart diagram that displays the population increase of the Hispanic culture that will take place in multiple cities in the year 2025 that is pretty significant. Another story titled “Buscando America”, displays a chart showing the percentage of Hispanics inhabiting cities in the U.S. and South America in the year 1990. From this particular chart I was able to see the strength in numbers that Mexicans have in the cities of Los Angeles and Miami during this time period. On the site http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hhmcensus1.html the Census bureau states, “The estimated Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2008, making people of Hispanic origin the nations largest ethnic or race minority. Hispanics constituted 15% of the nations total population. In addition, there are approximately 4 million residents of Puerto Rico.” Predictions that Davis has made in his series of stories that were written by 1993 explaining the rapid growth of the Hispanic population has proven to be true. And the possibility of the white and black population of America becoming the minority may be true as well.