Criminal

Criminal Deep within the word, “American” is its association with Race. To identify someone as Hispanic is to say very little, we need the adjective “white” or “Latino” or “colored” to make our meaning clear. In this country it’s the reverse. American means white and that’s it, and Latinos struggle to make the term applicable to themselves hyphen after hyphen and so on. Because American means white, those who are not white are presumed to be recent arrivals and often told to “go back to where they came from.” Thus we appear to operate within the dichotomized racial categories of American/non-American; these are racial categories, white, very, stereotypes, make, american, within, racial, race, need, means, latinos, hyphen, group, different, categories, because, about, word, whites, white/nonwhite, unwilling, united, unable, total, told, thus, through, themselves, that’s, term, struggle, stereotype, states, someone, socially