Asian American

Are Rising was very inspiring. I enjoyed the way it depicted African American education over time. Throughout the movie it made me ponder on a discussion my cohort and I had in our Culture Diversity in Education class. We were discussing the academic achievement gap amongst Minorities and White/Asian Americans. One of my classmates believed that the achievement gap between the cultures was due to parental involvement, and Asian students performed at a higher rate than minorities because…

The Void in Roy Choi’s Life Growing up as an Asian-American in the United States, especially in the city with a big character within itself, Los Angeles, there is always that game of tug-o-war between two cultures. In Roy Choi’s autobiography and cookbook, L.A. Son , he talks about growing up in Southern California as a Korean-American. He takes the readers on a ride along memory lane as he talks about his experiences growing up as a Korean-American in Los Angeles, where he ended up, how he…

Caucasian plan by creating Asian-privilege as a tool for Anti-Blackness. “That’s really the key to all this. The work of the African American freedom movements had made white liberals and white conservatives very uncomfortable. Liberals were questioning whether integration could solve some the deeper problems of economic inequality. And by the late 1960s, conservatives were calling for increased law and order...Across the political spectrum, people looked to Asian Americans — in this case,…

within the South Asian diaspora is shaped around the specific values and morals put upon the women. These specific morals and values were placed upon women overtime by the kinship and communities within the South Asian diaspora. Considering the movie, Mississippi Masala, features a relationship between Demetrius, an African American, and Mina, a Ugandan Indian, it can be used to explore the South Asian diaspora view on interracial relationship. The movie includes a very close South Asian…

the practice of “Gatekeeping”. According to Ngai, Lee, and Luibheid, excluding immigrants based on race, national origin and sexual orientation through immigration laws were the norms for maintaining the social and political dominance of the white American population. Even in the Nationality Act of 1790, citizenship was only obtainable to “free white persons of good moral character”, which became the basis for many immigration policies today, excluding people of color (Ngai 2004 pg. 37). White…

The news article “’Go Back to China’: Readers Respond to Racist Insults Shouted at a New York Times Editor” discusses the racial insults said to Asian-Americans. Micheal Luo published a letter online to someone who had told his family to go back to China (Luo, 2016, para. 3). Luo (2016) received many replies from Asian-Americans telling their stories of similar experiences encountering racism (para. 4). In the class The Myth of Race and Reality of Racism, we discuss the definition of racism.…

There are rare cases when you see a show or movie with an asian or hispanic or middle eastern lead. “almost never do Asian male characters have love interests in movies. And more often than not, if an Asian female character is the main love interest, she 's being fought over by a white guy and an Asian guy, with the white guy ending up with the girl.” That shocking trope was pointed out in an interview with John Cho and Kal Penn…

Depression Treatment among Ethnic and Racial Minority Groups Alain Ricoh Flores Contra Costa College  Abstract A study that includes the focus in the ethnic-racial minorities with a sample of 561 participants in the United States such as the African American group is primary subject of the research. The study portrayed the premature discontinuation of psychiatric treatment among ethnic-racial minorities is a persistent concern. But the previous researches that was focused on identifying the…

only makes the six o’clock news when young African American males such as Eric Gardner and Michael Brown, are left to die on a city street product of being hit by an official bullet or an official “take-down technique”. In my previous provocation, I deliberated in context about sociological “privilege”, specifically how during the chaotic and turbulent 1950s and 60s, a white student was awarded an opportunity towards success, while the African American student became the forgotten character of…

or religion, for example. The total population for Green Bay is 104,057. There is a lot of cultural diversity in the city of Green Bay, with a mixture of all races varying in amounts throughout the city. These people vary from caucasian, black, asian and hispanic with all of them contributing to the city to make it unique and full of diverse cultures. suburbanstats.org/population/wisconsin/how-many-people-live-in-green-bay as of early 2015. . Green Bay's citizens are not wealthy as far as the…