While actions may speak louder than words, it doesn’t mean that they are more powerful when it comes to initiating change and connection. Words are used to express many feelings and bold messages; they can call people to action, bring them to tears, and even drive their adrenaline to act upon them. While words may only be a vibration of vocal chords, they ring out in a harmonious way that compels others to listen. Many historical people, such as Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy gave speeches to bring hope to their audience, while other figures such as Lori Arviso Alvord wrote about diversity and acceptance. All these voices had power in their words through confidence and passion.…
This idea of self-image was import to DuBois, who believed that many African Americans had began to believe their status as second class citizens. Dubois. challenged the oppression of whites and had increasingly radical, for the time, stances on politics and argued that in planning our movements, in guiding our future development, that at times we rise above the pressing, but smaller questions of separate schools and cars, wage-discrimination and lynch law, to survey the whole questions of race in human philosophy and to lay, on a basis of broad knowledge and careful insight, those large lines of policy and higher ideals which may form our guiding lines and boundaries in the practical difficulties of every day and therefore should challenge…
The article of Dian Reay focuses on the aspect of discrimination in the higher education sector due to the racial, gender and class inequality that preoccupies the society. The writer aims, through interviews of various categories of students; from middle class or working class backgrounds, to evaluate what influenced their decisions concerning higher education. What she discovered through her research was that working class experiences differ from those of “their more privileged middle-class counterparts” (pg 855). It’s suggested that the decisions of these people reflecting the society may be consciously or even unconsciously influenced from their background, their social status and their ethnicity. Although, throughout time there have been noted significant improvements in education opening up…
Historical relevance Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954, was decided six years before my birth. By the time I began kindergarten in 1966, schools in the South and in Chicago were still segregated. Mandates to ban “separate but equal” schools were of little consequence to the thousands of school age youth who had to attend schools on the South Side of Chicago. “Willis Wagons “ were brought to Black schools to manage overcrowding. Chicago Public School Board president Willis sought to remedy overcrowding by delivering mobile classrooms on playground and parking lot spaces at Black schools.…
In the article “Why Use Critical Race Theory And Counter Storytelling To Analyze The Chicana/o Educational Pipeline,” the author gives examples on the educational system, personally the article reflects the corruption that exist in the life of a person of color. Critical race theory (CRT) is working to transform education inside and out of the classroom. The white supremacy that the pipeline represents is negative connotation on our community, and future. The educational system has a disturbing effect on pressuring children into giving up. The struggle of growing up, in elementary already being a statistic in the eyes of the system.…
“Cultural Capital and Critical Race Theory” was an article written by Tara J. Yosso and found in JSTOR’s database. The introduction begins with an appealing epigraph citing Gloria Anzaldúa’s work on including people of color in academic theory. Anzaldúa asserts people of color have been excluded from certain areas of academia and it is important to “not allow white men and women solely to occupy it” (qtd. in Yosso 69). Inclusion in these spaces are vital, Anzaldúa notes, because by “bringing in [people of color’s] own approaches and methodologies, we transform that theorizing space”…
Declaration Of Independence Preamble When in the course of human events, It is very important for people to speak publicly and not be afraid to tell people about their sexual orientation. Being different isn’t a crime, so everyone should be treated equally to one another. Their fondness doesn’t interpret the persons they are. We as people, should write and petition for our own independence for the World to see and apprehend why we should be independent of sexuality and discrimination. Peoples opprobrium can be harmful occasionally and lead to catastrophes.…
In response to Julys, radio program titled “this American life” which shed more light on a subject that I have come to question, that is of “white privilege” found in the education system. For example, when stripped of full accreditation and resources, schools in Normandy Ferguson whose population a mixture of black and Latino were subject to major change through, unknowingly, desegregation in the education system. This placed colored youth along those of upper social classes a majority of white students. In addition, the results were uncanny and proved that your placement in society determines your education. Once parents from the other side of town caught wind of these students moving to their schools stereotypes were the main concern at…
You don’t stick a knife in a man’s back nine inches, pull it out six inches and say you’re making progress.” ~ Malcolm X As the ideological father of the student led activism that Ibram Kendi notes in his book, The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, Malcolm X and his ideology are a perfect reference to decide its success. In his epilogue, Kendi argues that the BCM has pulled the “knife” out several inches since its inception, by either completely eliminating or crippling the four ideologies that made up the racial constitution of higher education: the moralized contraption, ladder altruism, standardization of exclusion, and the normalized mask of whiteness.…
America prides itself on the idea that we give fair, equal opportunities to all citizens in our country. No matter who you are or where you came from if one works hard enough social mobility is achievable. Khan’s Privilege, and the documentary White Like Me, helps explain how this idea of meritocracy in America is extremely flawed. Colorblind racism is reinforced by affirmative action, and scholarships, as a way to help promote an equal playing field, which only enhances the idea of meritocracy. While examples of black success like the 2008 election are being used as proof that America is no longer racist and that there is no reason, except for ones own, for no social mobility.…
James B. Stewart essay “The Field and Functions of Black Studies” focus primarily on explaining the mandate of W.E.B. DuBois. The first thing we need to understand is that historically we appear to be repeating history, rather than making new strides in it. The obstacles that African Americans face today are different, however, the results are the same. Black Studies are truly not understood or effectively being taught if you are not attending an HBCU. W.E.B. DuBois (1933) said “…[S]tarting with present conditions and using the facts and the knowledge of the present situation of American Negroes, the Negro university expands toward the possession and the conquest of all knowledge.”…
Annotated Bibliography Federico, Christopher M., & James Sidanius. Racism, ideology, and affirmative action revisited: The antecedents and consequences of "principled objections" to affirmative action. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 82, no. 4: 488–502, 2002. The article tries to establish the consequences and antecedents brought about by “principled objections” in relation to affirmative actions as advocated for by the whites.…
Access to higher education for Latino students can be easy visible though the analytical lens of critical race theory. During America’s fundamental formation of their society race played a critical role in the factoring of life chances and opportunities for people of color (Savas, 2014). Segregation through racial profiling and classification created this white supremacy ideology, that has carried over into all aspects of society including but not limited too the political, social, economical, and educational components of society (Savas, 2014). Belonging to the family of critical post-modern theory, critical race theory “attempts to understand the oppressive aspects of society in order to generate social and individual transformation” (Ortiz…
The Journal "The Need for More Than Justice" written by Annette C. Baier essentially analyzes Carol Gilligan views on matters of women and justice. Baier also discusses many different other philosophers in her analyzation. Gilligan 's theory goes into depth on how care can be an important factor in a women 's outlook on moral issues and moral development. The very first main idea or topic that 's introduced in the journal article is the care or justice perspective. The perspective basically shows or gives the idea that a person 's gender will determine their outlook.…
In The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga portrays a gut-wrenching, vivid display of a country that is defined by the oppression of the proletariat by both the super-structure and bourgeoisie. India is a relatively new “free” country, and can be defined by three periods: the early caste/pre-colonization, the British rule/colonization, and Western globalization/post-colonization. During the last period, an economy based in capitalism grew from the ashes of the previous British colonization where a vacuum for power was left after India received freedom from their previous oppressors. However, a transition into running their own country saw a government that only cared about making the rich, richer put into place, therefore further suppressing the proletariat,…