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As a young woman of color raised by a single mother, there have been many instances where I’ve faced immense adversity in various places within my community. Growing up in Oklahoma there have been numerous times where I’ve been the only brown face in the room, there have been times where I’ve been the woman in the room, the only voice from a marginalized community, and so on and so forth. Being “the only” something or someone in rooms or meeting supposedly at the forefront of social change and…

Jane Elliott was, by far, the most controversial speaker that I have heard at Texas A&M University-Commerce. On October 4th at the Sam Rayburn Student Center, she fiercely discussed the racism that is woven throughout our American culture, and she started by mentioning that children in America are taught to be racist from the day they are born. She used strong, and sometimes inappropriate language, which bothered me initially, because it can imply lack of professionalism. As her speech continued…

The American lawn is one with a rich history of not just grass types and landscaping techniques, but of the personalities of everyday people spilling out before their house for the whole world to see. With the ever-changing and ever-increasing busyness of life, people are forced to either neglect their beloved lawns or hire outside help in order to maintain a high caliber image. This is where companies, such as Lawn Butler, come into play. They give average, busy people the chance to maintain…

People may ask “Why are there stereotypes.” People are stereotype based on common knowledge of that type of person. Some blacks are stereotyped as criminals and old people are stereotyped as unable to do most physical labor and for this reason may lose a job to a younger less experience person. In this sense many people are stereotyped in the wrong way, this is because rarely does everyone fit all parts of a stereotype. As stated in (Hinton, 2000) young black men that are a witness to a crime…

doctors tend to categorize African Americans to have. Doctors are looking at the physical aspects of the persons carrying the disease, dissecting it base on the color of their skin rather than hereditary traits. The danger in this is disavowing the claims of social and environmental effects on the individuals. These are prominent variables that may affect the expression of this and many other diseases. Root says “people we customarily classify as black or white—are divided by genes or heritable…

academically successful role models for culturally diverse students. b. Culturally diverse teachers are less likely to provide exclusionary discipline (i.e., suspensions, expulsions, or detentions) and students receive more instructional time. i. African American students are more likely to avoid the “school-to-prison” pipeline because they are praised more by teachers of color, so they feel more confident taking risk and in facing…

1.3 Assignment Chapter 9: 1. Describe a time when a person or a group of people made an assumption about you that was not true. On what was the assumption based? Did it lead to any form of discrimination? Explain. A time when a group of people made an assumption about me but was not true was in college, two of my classmates and one professor though I was from the Middle East because of a few facial features but I’m from Puerto Rico I didn’t mind I have been told this since I was little by…

Bud changes throughout his journey to find his father.In Bud not Buddy by Christopher paul curtis, Bud’s emotions and character changes.As he searches for his father he changes from brave and clever to peaceful and joyful. At the beginning Bud is brave and clever.Bud shows his bravery by escaping from the locked Amos’s shed.In the text, it says”I grabbed the handles of the window and gave them one last jerk.I guess being scared gives you strength because this time the window flew open with a…

Researcher, Lauri Johnson, conducts a study testing how white teachers reacts to a racially diverse classroom. According to Johnson majority of teachers in today’s classrooms are white, and when asked about teaching racially diverse children they would respond with “I don’t see color” (Johnson, 2002, p, 154). The goal is to get teachers to see race being that they are teaching racially diverse children. Additionally, Johnson goes on to state that, because many people of color are not teachers,…

America is full of diversity. We have different races, ethnicities, and religions all around us. But, if you fall into the minority category, you will experience a different side of America that those who are white will not experience. This “different side” would be racial profiling. It’s not that everyone doesn’t do it, or hasn’t had it done to them. It’s the fact that the circumstances in which the racial profiling takes place. Racial profiling has many effects on negative effects people that…