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Class Dismissed and The Academic and Social Value of Ethnic Studies

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                                   For this blog post, I will be touching on two things assigned to us this week. An excerpt from the film Class Dismissed   which can be watched here , and the research review entitled, The Academic and Social Value of Ethnic Studies .  I would like to start with the short video first. This video starts by discussing how children going to school for learning is fairly new for us as a society. Children used to be homeschooled by their mothers, but when Massachusetts’ first Department of Education made it so children from the age of four to 16 had to attend school regularly, things changed. They were taught to be on time, to listen to authority and many other things that would make them ideal workers and military personnel. This was during the industrialization of our country, so the government wanted children to learn how to be productive members of the cha...

The Four I's of Oppression

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  I’m choosing to do a reflection on the Four I’s of Oppression . According to the Training Resources for the Environmental Community, there are 4 groupings of oppression. The first one is ideological oppression, which is rooted in our value systems and often appears as “common sense.” An example of this would be calling someone a “real girl” or a “real boy” like Luna Malbroux said in her video about the four I’s of oppression. This is also the thought process that pink is a girl's color and dresses should only be worn by women. In grade school, I was close with a girl who primarily wore boy's clothes. She had no desire to transition to a boy, she just felt that those clothes were more comfortable for her. She would constantly get made fun of because of her style. She wasn’t seen as a “real girl” because she wore boyish clothing.  The second type of oppression is internalized oppression. While this is the last type that Malbroux speaks on, it is still very common in our socie...

Other People's Children By Lisa Deplit

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    I'm choosing the option of reflection for this post about Other People's Children by Lisa Deplit. This reading begins with two different people of color sharing their experiences in predominantly white environments. The first is a black male grad student reflecting on his time at a predominantly white university. This student says, “It seems like if you can’t quote Vygotsky or something, then you don’t have any validity to speak about your own kids” (Delpit 21). While I absolutely validate his experience and feelings, I feel as though not all white people think like this. He made incredibly broad statements about white people as a whole. I know that there are absolutely white people who think that, but I also know that there are white people who value the perspective of a black student in the classroom. The other person is a black woman who teaches in a multicultural elementary school but works with predominantly white teachers. Again, she makes the generalization t...

Privilege, Power, and Difference By Alan Johnson

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  This post will follow the quotes option in the blog post assignment doc . This book is titled Privilege, Power, and Difference, written by sociologist Alan Johnson. In his introduction, he explains that his goal in writing this book is to show how we can move forward in society and evolve past white privilege amongst other privileges such as straightness, maleness, and classism. He also says something that I believe to be incredibly important. His purpose is not to make anyone feel as if they are to blame. This feeling of blame that often gets put on unsuspecting people can cause the opposite effect of what was desired. The desired effect is societal change and equal opportunities for people of all races, classes, genders, and sexual orientations.  In chapter one Johnson writes, “Men’s violence and harassment aimed at women is epidemic in the United States” (Johnson 3). He wrote this as one example of how it is not just class or race that divides us. It's gender and sexual ...