weeks is hardly enough time to do so. This is not I trying to distant myself from my race; it is me deeply considering what is being taught.
With regard to my white identity, it does not appear to address the impact on a white person that grew up in a diverse neighborhood, “given the close association between whiteness and socioeconomic privilege, poor and working-class whites are especially likely to be aware of their whiteness and to have a complex understanding of what it means to be white in the USA (Samson, 2005).” When I learned about slavery, I had many black people living around me, this impacted me on a personal level as I made a very real connection to my neighbors and friends. We learned about Jim Crow Laws and the Civil Rights movements and a picture of black people having a fire hose sprayed on them is an image that is still stuck in my head. Seeing photos of Holocaust victims and veterans spit on also deeply impacted me. I was still in elementary school I concluded Thanksgiving was a disgusting holiday that was based on killing American Indians.
I could have entered the pseudo independence stage in elementary school and it extended into high school, because of living in a diverse neighborhood. “There was an attempt to understand …show more content…
Maybe this will be seen as me trying to avoid my whiteness. I stayed in the state of NJ because my cousin was dying, even thought that meant delaying my life in a worldly way. When my parents bought the only house they could afford, my extended family came and helped fix it, I spent every weekend with my extended family, that is not how white culture is described, which would be part of my identity. I can tell you that is not something that is often afforded to me on a much smaller scale since my family was
With regard to my white identity, it does not appear to address the impact on a white person that grew up in a diverse neighborhood, “given the close association between whiteness and socioeconomic privilege, poor and working-class whites are especially likely to be aware of their whiteness and to have a complex understanding of what it means to be white in the USA (Samson, 2005).” When I learned about slavery, I had many black people living around me, this impacted me on a personal level as I made a very real connection to my neighbors and friends. We learned about Jim Crow Laws and the Civil Rights movements and a picture of black people having a fire hose sprayed on them is an image that is still stuck in my head. Seeing photos of Holocaust victims and veterans spit on also deeply impacted me. I was still in elementary school I concluded Thanksgiving was a disgusting holiday that was based on killing American Indians.
I could have entered the pseudo independence stage in elementary school and it extended into high school, because of living in a diverse neighborhood. “There was an attempt to understand …show more content…
Maybe this will be seen as me trying to avoid my whiteness. I stayed in the state of NJ because my cousin was dying, even thought that meant delaying my life in a worldly way. When my parents bought the only house they could afford, my extended family came and helped fix it, I spent every weekend with my extended family, that is not how white culture is described, which would be part of my identity. I can tell you that is not something that is often afforded to me on a much smaller scale since my family was