I am Karla Miranda and I was compelled with the article Becoming “Hispanic” in the “New South; Central America immigrants’ racialization experiences in Atlanta, Ga, USA. After reading the article made me realize the challenges of others and the problem was that they struggle with having to be identifying themselves as just “Hispanics”. Not to mention most children start to forget about their culture and fall for the homogenization do its job in grouping every race. “Although Central American immigrants actively negotiate a Hispanic racialized moniker, they do within an urban context dominated by native-born residents whose racialized assumptions limp Spanish-speaking, brown skinned individuals into monolithic ‘Mexican’ category” (Yarbrough).
