Asian American

white female to flee. In turn, this proves that race serves a miniscule, yet pragmatic purpose from a biological perspective. Again, it must be noted that race in no way can be justified taxonomically. In another essay on race called The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker, the author Eric Liu asserts that he finds himself “now the bearer of a…

of racial divides masquerading as class divides are outlandish but because he attempts to describe Asian Americans in a way that aligns them with white Americans, which is an idea most people, Asian or not, would disagree with due to its naïve idealism. Mahajan in particular would disagree vehemently, as the central argument of his piece is the reasons for the “perpetual foreignness” of Asian-Americans. While Mahajan’s article and Wilson’s article describe different ethnic groups, both articles…

In Academic Profiling: Latinos, Asian American, and the Achievement Gap, by Gilda Ochoa, it describes how a focus on the achievement gap, can cause harm to both Latina/Latino and Asian American students by ignoring systematic and structural injustices that maintain “binary” and “hierarchical” thinking. One of her arguments is that the achievement gap gives off a mirage that inequality is being managed by moving the focus to “high-stakes testing”. According to her bibliography Gilda L. Ochoa…

Chyng Feng Sun talked about how Asian Americans are portrayed in a negative light in the media. The author started off by pointing out how Asian Americans are underrepresented in the media, by drawing reference to the fact that a mere 0.8 percent of tv characters during 1991 and 1992 were Asian Americans with this amount having a slight increase during 1994 through 1997, with the majority of these roles being minor. However, to fully understands how Asians are portrayed one as to…

14 come of the things that compare to my ethnicity was that Asian American they had to experience come to American to do the cheap labor, they have suffer as much racial discriminations as other people of color. They were not able to own land, or business where not able to attend school with white people or live in white neighborhoods like the African American communities. Still face a lot of poverty and social problems. African American don’t talk about problem to outside world beside their…

Black, White, Asian, and Hispanic women all have one thing in common. They all have dealt with some form of oppression. bell hooks exemplifies a woman who seeks change and improvement in the feminist movement. When bell hooks enrolled in a graduate class on Feminist Theory she realized all her readings were written by white women and one black man. She had every right to be curious of the works from women of different cultures. Did I mention bell hooks was black? Oppression has no color or…

In the early 20th century Europeans were not considered, to American’s standard, as white—even if some Europeans were clearly Caucasians (Omi and Winant, pg. 21). Then in the early 1900s, Americans adopted the phrase “separate but equal”. Now in the 21st century, people, regardless or color, now have the same opportunities for a better life. While people of different backgrounds aren’t looked down upon much anymore, nothing is perfect. There are still those few individuals who simply cannot…

What I found most astounding reading the “Separate but equal” article is how segregated the Asian American communities are today. Nearly all of the nationalities within the Asian American community are considered to be at least 40% segregated from the rest of the white community; this is nearly the same as the Hispanic community. The Asian population is growing immensely and has been for the past few decades, which could lead to the reduction of the segregation percentage. However, segregation…

Steinberg has some valid point about the exclusion of black people in America and the exclusion of Asian and Latino’s who have immigrated to American, the author makes an example, about marriages how Latinos are marrying non-Hispanic whites and Asian are marrying non-Asians, Asian and Latinos are part of the melting pot in America as they are assimilating to the American culture and also marrying white Americans, however in this melting pot black people somehow are excluded according to…

happened the teacher blamed the black girl for starting the fight by stating, “Because she is African American, and raised in an African American society, she is more likely to be a more aggressive individual, because they believe it is acceptable to fight all the time anyway.” In this case the teacher is only looking at the race of the individual and making the assumption the African American student was responsible due to heritage in correlation with her disposition,…