“Obstacles are barriers and to overcome them is to do whatever it takes to prevent them from stopping you from going where you want to go”. An obstacle is anything that keeps you from achieving your goal; it could be physical, financial or resource limitations. It could be moral opposition or anything that impedes you from comfortably achieving one's goal. Martin Luther King Jr overcame his obstacle in the Movie Selma. He gave Africans Americans the full right to vote.
Some may live through being sexually abused, live in extreme poverty, or even fall victim of being physical or verbally abused. Whatever the reason is, this book shows an outlet for these struggles. The only way we can help others fight these intersectionality issues is by knowing your privilege and using it to help the oppressed with no voice. In Brittney Cooper’s article “Feminism’s ugly internal clash: Why its future is not up to the white women” she states that “the future of feminism is not up to the white women. Not by themselves anyway”.
During this English class, we learned about past and present traumas faced by Indigenous people in order to reconcile and learn from our mistakes. To reconcile and learn about past traumas we have to be able to see how discrimination still happens today and how racism is still present in our world today. Both the texts AlterNatives by Drew Hayden Taylor and The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson are appropriate for NBE3U-E because they teach students about the underlying stereotypes and discrimination towards Indigenous people as well as the violence that still happens today. Discrimination and stereotypes towards Indigenous people is shown when Colleen makes assumptions about Angel and when Michelle makes discriminatory comments towards
In “Cultural Knowledge aand Social Inequality”, By Annette Lareau, she address interesting data’s that demonstrates the upward mobile adults from middle class. Under instituitions and cultural knowledge, she discusses how cultural knowledge matters when white and African American young adults of differing class backgrounds navigate key institutions. She found that middles class young adults had more knowledge than working class regarding how institution worked. This study is and can be very useful for working class young adults, and is topic we should dig deeper into. In the article “Black America and the Class Divide” an interesting data from Du bois, which really connects to this reading I believe is “Du Bois knew, of course, that any black
In Jacquelyn Dowd Hall’s “The Long Civil rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past”, the author sees the past politicized through the revisionism of the New Right. Hall states that the goal of the article is to focus on how the New Right “distorted and reified” the Civil Rights Movement, to present a progressive “truer story” (Hall, 1235). Examining the political aspect of the movement the author focuses on the attempt by conservatives to reestablish laws on civil rights. Hall argues that the “war of ideas”, enforced by the New Right has “entrenched” its view of the Civil Rights Movement into the minds of society (Hall, 1238). Politicizing the movement, Hall examines Civil Rights interaction with those that criticized the movement.
In chapter one, "Privilege, Oppression, and Difference, Allan Johnson begins his argument that "difference is not the problem"( Johnson, pg 5 ). The author goes on to explain that difference by itself is not the problem, rather difference in conjunction with our ideas that cause fear. That being said, discrimination was a bigger problem in the past and it still is today. We starts with talking about Rodney King and racism he had received from police officers in Los Angeles. Johnson continues on with the idea that people are judged not for who they are or the things they have accomplished, but how they are perceived by others.
In todays’ society does race matter? Who in society thinks that race matters and who thinks it no longer matters? In our daily living we experience different types of racism. Some of us experience racism because of the color of our skin, the country we migrated from or just because we speak a different language. Additionally, people can be judged by the way they dress, or the food they eat.
Oppression: prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control. The oppression that the main characters face in Hansberry’s “A Raisin in The Sun”, has their combined and individual dreams deferred or prevented, corresponding to Langston Hughes’ “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)”. The Younger family in “A Raisin in The Sun” must withstand multiple forms of oppression, social and economic. Socially, they are subjected to systematic racism and racial stereotypes that leads to them being nearly forced to give up a dream.
Some policy implications include merely to admit the unfairness and wrong doing and understanding that it is causing a conflict and then to find possible goals and alternatives to resolve the issues. Finding ways to lower inequality and increase and returning individual political rights. Bettering school systems, more job opportunities for people, rebuilding communities typically in the black communities, and even though low income results in poverty and other economic problems it can a be a much harder and longer process to overcome. Still implementing these strategies could make a huge change to this country and to people of color lives.
There is one scene in the book that shows the protagonist being the oppressor, and not the oppressed. Harper, the oldest of Mr. children, gets married to a woman completely different from Celia. She is strong-minded, assertive, and does not take anything from anyone. Harper was not used to his wife’s strong personality, so he asked both his father and Celia their opinion on how to handle his wife. Both Mr. and Celia agreed that Harper should beat Sofia into submission.
To begin with, I wanted to give a short summary of the three assigned reading assignments for this week which included: “Making System Of Privilege Visible” by Stephanie M. Wildman with Adrienne D. Davis, “ Shifting The Center” by Arturo Madrid, and “Pedagogy Of The Oppressed” by Paulo Freire. In “Making System Of Privilege Visible” by Stephanie M. Wildman with Adrienne D. Davis it mostly talks about a “system of privilege”, and oppression. The “system of privilege” is the dominant race or ethnicity in a society, or having certain unearned advantages over different groups because of one or more social identities. On the other hand, oppression is denying, preventing, or prohibiting someone from the opportunity to not be fully human. In
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an agreement between the United States, Canada and Mexico that sets the rules for international trade and investment. NAFTA region is home to 444.1 million people, 33.3 million of whom live in Canada, 304.1 million in the United States, and 106.7 million in Mexico and producing $17 trillion worth of goods and services. Trade has increased between these countries since NAFTA was put into effect in January, 1994 (United States Trade Representative, “North American Free Trade Agreement”). Opponents of NAFTA include labor groups, environmental, consumer and religious groups. They worry that NAFTA will encourage companies to find the lowest wages possible, destroy American jobs and threaten democratic
During this week, we have covered numerous topics, none more prominent than the oppression of women. Everyone had different opinions, allowing me to take into account different views on the issue. In one of the texts we examined, “Oppression”, Marilyn Frye, a philosopher, debates the subjugation of women. She states the cultural customs that causes oppression of women. I do agree with her view that women are oppressed, but I do not agree that it is just women.
In conclusion, With oppression women back then and now are being denied their human right to be equal and that should not be the case. Oppression is an unjust treatment and women should not have to go through it. There were many examples of oppression in The Yellow Wallpaper. This was a good example of how oppression can affects someone and how depression plays a big role in
Oppression is defined as prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control. Cruel and unjust punishment is just the beginning for the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Charlotte Gilman while writing the “The Yellow Wallpaper” deciding to make it into a series of diary entries from a woman who is suffering from post-partum depression. The narrator begins by describing this large home that she and her husband have rented for the summer. Their summer house stands away from the road and contains many locks and little houses.
