Reflection On Dreamers After DACA

The event I decided to attend was the presentation “Dreamers after DACA” by Maria Belen Sisa. The main reason I decided to attend this presentation was mainly due to the fact that the DACA situation is something I am actively involved in and hearing stories of individuals under this program gives me insight as to what is currently happening to them after the program was ended. Sisa also discussed ways to get involved and take action to demand a clean Dream Act which was another factor as to why I attended.
This event relates to the course’s theme because it discussed the issue of ethnicity and ethnic groups in education and employment. In the beginning of the semester, we discussed the topic of ethnicity and race and the role they play in …show more content…
She claimed how if it was not for her light skin, hair, and colored eyes, many would have discriminated against her in school like they have done so to her other minority peers. In class, we talked about how many perceive race as the key factor to determine superiority and intelligence, and with the comment that Sisa made regarding her appearance being accepted as part of the majority group and being treated like them goes to show what role the race of someone has when it comes to society. Sisa later continues that when it came to applying to universities it was then when she lost the support from her classmates and educators due to the fact that it was known she was undocumented, which made them believe that she was no longer capable of what they use to think she was, solely on the fact that her ‘real’ race was revealed. Here you can see the power society has put on the concept of race and how common it is to have resources that help the majority group but very little to help the minority …show more content…
Prior to this course, I thought of gender as physical characteristics, not as a form of identity, and this course did an excellent job in explaining how gender is non-binary and how much more can be included within it. Moving on to race, I always thought of it as being biological, however, after this course, I learned that race is not real, it is simply a social construct used by majority groups to categorizes people who appear different from them into groups and find a way to ‘control’ them. In regards to identity, this perhaps was the most influential part of the course, I simply thought of identity as a form of describing your interests and hobbies, not specifically who you are within, such as your sex, gender, culture, sexual orientation and how all these identities affect your life in both positive and negative