Dear future students of TED 3380,
First things first…this social issues class is a blast and is very interesting. I was hesitant to come to this class and talk about issues that most people do not discuss in public. However, after being in this class…it has opened my eyes and I have gotten to discuss some pretty interesting material. This is not your regular class. You talk about a lot of issues that are hush hush. The greatest and coolest part of this class will be your professor. He is awesome! Dr. T makes class fun and exciting. Yes, it is a long class…but he gives you breaks and makes it go by pretty fast. He is an outgoing man who makes discussing hard topics a little bit easier. He is comical and very sweet. I really did enjoy this class and was sad that it had to end. I hope you love it as much as I did!
Sincerely,
Ashley Jackson
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Discussion Circle Question
Chapter 10- Building a Teaching Community: About passion in the classroom
Main Ideas and Themes
Chapter 10 talks about how we as teachers need to make the classroom a stimulating and interesting place for children. They should want to learn and desire more of it. If the classroom is not fun and exciting then how can we expect children to learn and grow? In order for there to be learning, children need to actually want to be taught and listen to what is being taught to them. We as teachers need to bring our own passions with us and touch our students in our own ways.
Consistent/Inconsistent with Experiences as a Student/Novice/Teaching Associate
As a student, I have had many experiences with this quote from Chapter 10. My favorite teachers were the ones that gave something extra to our classrooms and made class interesting. In the second grade I had Mrs. Britain who was a wonderful teacher. She is the reason why I am going to be a teacher and hopefully one day I will be as great as she was. She came into our classroom every day with a smile on her face and ready to teach us everything we needed to know in a fun and fascinating way. She would always have exciting activities for us and if we were good we would get a sticker. Once we filled up our sheet we could choose from the treasure chest and get something fun out of it. I do not ever remember class being dull and I always was ready and excited to learn something. Another teacher who was passionate and made class appealing was my eighth grade history teacher Mr. Sir. He made learning history exciting and he knew everything and anything about American history. I loved coming to his class and learning something new about our history. I did great on his tests and never once dreaded coming to class. He loved what he did and that is how every teacher needs to be.
As a novice tutoring my student last year in TED 1312, I tried to always make my lessons fun and stimulating. I wanted to help my student learn while making it fun for him so he would actually want to learn what I was teaching him and remember what was being taught. I loved every day of tutoring and had a wonderful student. I tried my hardest to always entertain him and teach him exactly what he needed to know. I am ready for my future as a teacher and cannot wait to see what the future holds.
Consistent/Inconsistent with Teaching Beliefs and Practices
This quote is dead on with what I believe. I think that every teacher should love his or her job and be excited for each day that they teach their students. We should all bring something interesting to the table and create a fun learning experience for our children so that they will truly learn the material and want to learn more of it. Sadly, many teachers these days do not have the passion that is needed when teaching. It is a job that they come to and are just ready for a paycheck. In the words of Benjamin Franklin, “The secret of success is to make your vocation your vacation.” I firmly agree with this. You should enjoy your so called “job” and make it a vacation in which you love coming to it. I am ready to become a great teacher and touch the minds of many children. I cannot wait to make teaching fun and interesting.
So What? Impact on Future Professional Development
Our future will be a sad place if our teachers are not passionate and love what they do. We need teachers who are going to entice our students and create a learning experience that is fresh and entertaining. Learning should be fun and once it is not then how can we expect our students to want to learn?
Chapter 10- Building a Teaching Community: About passion in the classroom
Main Ideas and Themes
Chapter 10 talks about how we as teachers need to make the classroom a stimulating and interesting place for children. They should want to learn and desire more of it. If the classroom is not fun and exciting then how can we expect children to learn and grow? In order for there to be learning, children need to actually want to be taught and listen to what is being taught to them. We as teachers need to bring our own passions with us and touch our students in our own ways.
Consistent/Inconsistent with Experiences as a Student/Novice/Teaching Associate
As a student, I have had many experiences with this quote from Chapter 10. My favorite teachers were the ones that gave something extra to our classrooms and made class interesting. In the second grade I had Mrs. Britain who was a wonderful teacher. She is the reason why I am going to be a teacher and hopefully one day I will be as great as she was. She came into our classroom every day with a smile on her face and ready to teach us everything we needed to know in a fun and fascinating way. She would always have exciting activities for us and if we were good we would get a sticker. Once we filled up our sheet we could choose from the treasure chest and get something fun out of it. I do not ever remember class being dull and I always was ready and excited to learn something. Another teacher who was passionate and made class appealing was my eighth grade history teacher Mr. Sir. He made learning history exciting and he knew everything and anything about American history. I loved coming to his class and learning something new about our history. I did great on his tests and never once dreaded coming to class. He loved what he did and that is how every teacher needs to be.
As a novice tutoring my student last year in TED 1312, I tried to always make my lessons fun and stimulating. I wanted to help my student learn while making it fun for him so he would actually want to learn what I was teaching him and remember what was being taught. I loved every day of tutoring and had a wonderful student. I tried my hardest to always entertain him and teach him exactly what he needed to know. I am ready for my future as a teacher and cannot wait to see what the future holds.
Consistent/Inconsistent with Teaching Beliefs and Practices
This quote is dead on with what I believe. I think that every teacher should love his or her job and be excited for each day that they teach their students. We should all bring something interesting to the table and create a fun learning experience for our children so that they will truly learn the material and want to learn more of it. Sadly, many teachers these days do not have the passion that is needed when teaching. It is a job that they come to and are just ready for a paycheck. In the words of Benjamin Franklin, “The secret of success is to make your vocation your vacation.” I firmly agree with this. You should enjoy your so called “job” and make it a vacation in which you love coming to it. I am ready to become a great teacher and touch the minds of many children. I cannot wait to make teaching fun and interesting.
So What? Impact on Future Professional Development
Our future will be a sad place if our teachers are not passionate and love what they do. We need teachers who are going to entice our students and create a learning experience that is fresh and entertaining. Learning should be fun and once it is not then how can we expect our students to want to learn?
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Ashley Jackson
3/14/10
TED 3380
Teaching to Transgress 5 4 3 2 1: Chapter 8-14
5- In chapters 8-14 of Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks talks a lot about treating everyone the same. There is tension between white and black women, black and white males, and also their languages. People think that they can speak freely when they really cannot. hooks wants educators to teach that people that are different are good and there is nothing wrong with not all being the same way. hooks also talks about how teachers need to combine theory with practice. The teacher and student needs to work together.
4- 1.) Page 113: “In a feminist classroom, especially a Women’s Studies course, the black student, who has had no previous background in feminist studies, usually finds that she or he is in a class that is predominantly white (often attended by a majority of outspoken young, white, radical feminists…”
2.) Page 122: “Black discourse on feminism was often confined to endless debates about whether or not black women should involve ourselves in “white feminist” movement.”
3.) Page 130: “To engage in dialogue is one of the simplest ways we can begin as teachers, scholars, and critical thinkers to cross boundaries, the barriers that may or may not be erected by race, gender, class, professional standing, and a host of other differences.”
4.) Page 167: “Like desire, language disrupts refuses to be contained within boundaries. It speaks itself against our will, in words and thoughts that intrude, even violate the most private spaces of mind and body.”
3- “The Burning of Paper Instead of Children” (page 167) - poem by Adrienne Rich
Feminist (page 125) - the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men
Transgress (page 207) - to go beyond the limits imposed
2 – Two connections I had with the text were that I agree with bell hooks when she says that everyone should be accepted and even though someone is different it does not mean that this is a bad thing. If everyone was the same our world would be a boring place where nothing interesting and exciting ever happened. Another connection I had with the text is that I agree with hooks when she says that teachers and students need to work together in order to make our education a better place of learning. In order to become better teachers we need to test and try out different theories and see what works.
1 – What are some different theories that could be practiced in the classroom?
3/14/10
TED 3380
Teaching to Transgress 5 4 3 2 1: Chapter 8-14
5- In chapters 8-14 of Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks talks a lot about treating everyone the same. There is tension between white and black women, black and white males, and also their languages. People think that they can speak freely when they really cannot. hooks wants educators to teach that people that are different are good and there is nothing wrong with not all being the same way. hooks also talks about how teachers need to combine theory with practice. The teacher and student needs to work together.
4- 1.) Page 113: “In a feminist classroom, especially a Women’s Studies course, the black student, who has had no previous background in feminist studies, usually finds that she or he is in a class that is predominantly white (often attended by a majority of outspoken young, white, radical feminists…”
2.) Page 122: “Black discourse on feminism was often confined to endless debates about whether or not black women should involve ourselves in “white feminist” movement.”
3.) Page 130: “To engage in dialogue is one of the simplest ways we can begin as teachers, scholars, and critical thinkers to cross boundaries, the barriers that may or may not be erected by race, gender, class, professional standing, and a host of other differences.”
4.) Page 167: “Like desire, language disrupts refuses to be contained within boundaries. It speaks itself against our will, in words and thoughts that intrude, even violate the most private spaces of mind and body.”
3- “The Burning of Paper Instead of Children” (page 167) - poem by Adrienne Rich
Feminist (page 125) - the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men
Transgress (page 207) - to go beyond the limits imposed
2 – Two connections I had with the text were that I agree with bell hooks when she says that everyone should be accepted and even though someone is different it does not mean that this is a bad thing. If everyone was the same our world would be a boring place where nothing interesting and exciting ever happened. Another connection I had with the text is that I agree with hooks when she says that teachers and students need to work together in order to make our education a better place of learning. In order to become better teachers we need to test and try out different theories and see what works.
1 – What are some different theories that could be practiced in the classroom?
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Ashley Jackson
2/27/10
TED 3380
Teaching to Transgress 5 4 3 2 1
5- In these chapters, Bell Hooks talks about how she thinks that teachers need to have the best instructional methods. Every teacher needs to value all of his or her students. Hooks also talks about how desegregation was a good and bad thing. She did not think it was fair that the black children were the ones having to be bused and go to schools where they were not wanted. Hooks really values Paulo Freire’s work. She talks a lot about feminism and how women were not treated the same as men were. I agree with most of the things she talks about and understand how desegregation was not fair to the black children and made it harder on them most of the time. I think that Hooks is trying to get her readers to understand that the world is not always fair and we need to change it and make it a better place.
4- 1.) Page 3: “School changed utterly with racial integration…Knowledge was suddenly about information only…Bussed to white schools, we soon learned that obedience, and not a zealous will to learn, was what was expected of us.”
2.) Page 13: “Throughout my years as student and professor, I have been most inspired by those teachers who have had the courage to transgress those boundaries that would confine each pupil to a rote, assembly-line approach to learning.”
3.) Page 59: “Children make the best theorists, since they have not yet been educated into accepting our routine social practices as “natural”.”
4.) Page 7: “Excitement in higher education was viewed as potentially disruptive of the atmosphere of seriousness assumed to be essential to the learning process.”
3- pedagogy (page 15) - the art or science of teaching; education; instructional methods.
voyeuristic (page 46) - an obsessive observer of sordid or sensational subjects
desegregation (page 46) - the elimination of laws, customs, or practices under which different races, groups, etc., are restricted to specific or separate public facilities, neighborhoods, schools, organizations, or the like
2- Two connections I had with the reading are first, I agree with Bell Hooks when she says that we need to value every student in our classroom. Each and every student is worth the same and each one should be treated equally. Another connection I had with the reading was that I do see every day how women are still treated and thought of differently than men. Our world has definitely become better about treating women almost as equal as men, but there are still some struggles we face today.
1 – How do you feel about feminism and what are some experiences you have had with women being treated not as equal as a man?
2/27/10
TED 3380
Teaching to Transgress 5 4 3 2 1
5- In these chapters, Bell Hooks talks about how she thinks that teachers need to have the best instructional methods. Every teacher needs to value all of his or her students. Hooks also talks about how desegregation was a good and bad thing. She did not think it was fair that the black children were the ones having to be bused and go to schools where they were not wanted. Hooks really values Paulo Freire’s work. She talks a lot about feminism and how women were not treated the same as men were. I agree with most of the things she talks about and understand how desegregation was not fair to the black children and made it harder on them most of the time. I think that Hooks is trying to get her readers to understand that the world is not always fair and we need to change it and make it a better place.
4- 1.) Page 3: “School changed utterly with racial integration…Knowledge was suddenly about information only…Bussed to white schools, we soon learned that obedience, and not a zealous will to learn, was what was expected of us.”
2.) Page 13: “Throughout my years as student and professor, I have been most inspired by those teachers who have had the courage to transgress those boundaries that would confine each pupil to a rote, assembly-line approach to learning.”
3.) Page 59: “Children make the best theorists, since they have not yet been educated into accepting our routine social practices as “natural”.”
4.) Page 7: “Excitement in higher education was viewed as potentially disruptive of the atmosphere of seriousness assumed to be essential to the learning process.”
3- pedagogy (page 15) - the art or science of teaching; education; instructional methods.
voyeuristic (page 46) - an obsessive observer of sordid or sensational subjects
desegregation (page 46) - the elimination of laws, customs, or practices under which different races, groups, etc., are restricted to specific or separate public facilities, neighborhoods, schools, organizations, or the like
2- Two connections I had with the reading are first, I agree with Bell Hooks when she says that we need to value every student in our classroom. Each and every student is worth the same and each one should be treated equally. Another connection I had with the reading was that I do see every day how women are still treated and thought of differently than men. Our world has definitely become better about treating women almost as equal as men, but there are still some struggles we face today.
1 – How do you feel about feminism and what are some experiences you have had with women being treated not as equal as a man?
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Ashley Jackson
2/23/10
TED 3380
The Shame of the Nation: Essay 1
Dear President Obama,
After reading Jonathan Kozol’s book entitled The Shame of the Nation, I am shocked and cannot believe that the United States has let our public schools become so bad. School should be a place where children can come and learn and have fun. School for some children is supposed to be a safe haven away from the pressures and hurts at home. Why is it that our public schools are still segregated and run down? Kozol paints a brutal picture into our heads and after reading this book something needs to be done.
Jonathan Kozol wants his readers to remember how terrible schools are and not every child goes to a nice, wonderful, and clean school. Kozol talks about some very low income schools and all of the terrible learning styles the students have to deal with. On page 43 he says, “During the 1900s, physical conditions in some buildings had become so dangerous that a principle at one Bronx school, which had been condemned in 1989 but nonetheless continued to be used, was forced to order that the building’s windows not be cleaned because the frames were rotted and glass panes were falling in the street, while at another school the principal had to have the windows bolted shut for the same reason. These were not years of economic crisis in New York. This was a period in which financial markets soared and a new generation of free-spending millionaires and billionaires was widely celebrated by the press and on TV; but none of the proceeds of this period of economic growth had found their way into the schools that served the truly poor.” It is heartbreaking to think about all the people in the world that could easily afford to help these kinds of schools all over the world and nothing is being done. In my opinion, the primary thesis of The Shame of the Nation is that there are some terrible schools and neighborhoods that need so much help. People need to stop living their lives not knowing or caring about people who live and go to school in low income areas every day. Kozol talks about how America can afford to help these low income schools but chooses not to.
I support Kozol’s claims of “Apartheid Schooling” in the U.S. and think that there needs to be numerous changes done so that schools are not still segregated. On page 15, an African American girl in one of the low income schools says, “What’s it like…Over there-where other people are.” This girl is asking what it is like over where the white people live. She lives only a few minutes away and has no clue what life is like where the white people live. How can America still be like this today after apparently desegregating schools years ago?
I agree with every issue Kozol talks about in his book. Whether it is that there are segregated, worn-down schools or that there are programs put into place to help schools but nothing is really ever done. Every child deserves to go to a great school that will teach them correctly and everything they should learn about.
In order for these schools to become better there needs to be a lot of changes done to our public schools. The teachers in these schools can make the biggest differences. Every teacher should be adequately certified to teach and be a positive and motivating person. He or she should want to change this problem and do all that he or she can to help these children. We must always try to help each and every individual child and make sure that they are in an encouraging environment. Every student in a teacher’s classroom is worth so much. Not only can teachers make a difference, but the programs and organizations we put into place. Instead of making a program and not following through or really trying to help we need to actually make a change and follow through with what we put into place. Every person needs to be active and give all they can to helping these schools.
In conclusion President Obama, we have the opportunity to have great schools where every child feels welcome and loves coming to them. We cannot stand by any longer and watch as our public schools keep being segregated and falling apart.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Ashley Jackson
2/23/10
TED 3380
The Shame of the Nation: Essay 1
Dear President Obama,
After reading Jonathan Kozol’s book entitled The Shame of the Nation, I am shocked and cannot believe that the United States has let our public schools become so bad. School should be a place where children can come and learn and have fun. School for some children is supposed to be a safe haven away from the pressures and hurts at home. Why is it that our public schools are still segregated and run down? Kozol paints a brutal picture into our heads and after reading this book something needs to be done.
Jonathan Kozol wants his readers to remember how terrible schools are and not every child goes to a nice, wonderful, and clean school. Kozol talks about some very low income schools and all of the terrible learning styles the students have to deal with. On page 43 he says, “During the 1900s, physical conditions in some buildings had become so dangerous that a principle at one Bronx school, which had been condemned in 1989 but nonetheless continued to be used, was forced to order that the building’s windows not be cleaned because the frames were rotted and glass panes were falling in the street, while at another school the principal had to have the windows bolted shut for the same reason. These were not years of economic crisis in New York. This was a period in which financial markets soared and a new generation of free-spending millionaires and billionaires was widely celebrated by the press and on TV; but none of the proceeds of this period of economic growth had found their way into the schools that served the truly poor.” It is heartbreaking to think about all the people in the world that could easily afford to help these kinds of schools all over the world and nothing is being done. In my opinion, the primary thesis of The Shame of the Nation is that there are some terrible schools and neighborhoods that need so much help. People need to stop living their lives not knowing or caring about people who live and go to school in low income areas every day. Kozol talks about how America can afford to help these low income schools but chooses not to.
I support Kozol’s claims of “Apartheid Schooling” in the U.S. and think that there needs to be numerous changes done so that schools are not still segregated. On page 15, an African American girl in one of the low income schools says, “What’s it like…Over there-where other people are.” This girl is asking what it is like over where the white people live. She lives only a few minutes away and has no clue what life is like where the white people live. How can America still be like this today after apparently desegregating schools years ago?
I agree with every issue Kozol talks about in his book. Whether it is that there are segregated, worn-down schools or that there are programs put into place to help schools but nothing is really ever done. Every child deserves to go to a great school that will teach them correctly and everything they should learn about.
In order for these schools to become better there needs to be a lot of changes done to our public schools. The teachers in these schools can make the biggest differences. Every teacher should be adequately certified to teach and be a positive and motivating person. He or she should want to change this problem and do all that he or she can to help these children. We must always try to help each and every individual child and make sure that they are in an encouraging environment. Every student in a teacher’s classroom is worth so much. Not only can teachers make a difference, but the programs and organizations we put into place. Instead of making a program and not following through or really trying to help we need to actually make a change and follow through with what we put into place. Every person needs to be active and give all they can to helping these schools.
In conclusion President Obama, we have the opportunity to have great schools where every child feels welcome and loves coming to them. We cannot stand by any longer and watch as our public schools keep being segregated and falling apart.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Ashley Jackson
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Ashley Jackson
2/14/10
TED 3380
Race Matters 5 4 3 2 1: Chapters 5-8
5- Cornel West talks about many different things in these chapters. He brings up affirmative action, black-Jewish relations, black sexuality, and ends his book talking about how powerful Malcolm X was and that we need to be more like him in order to change this world. He wants people to not just accept affirmative action but actually take real action to help race issues. Also, we need to be more like Malcolm X who spoke with power and rage.
4- 1.) Page 116: “Without some redistribution of wealth and power, downward mobility and debilitating poverty will continue to drive people into desperate channels.”
2.) Page 119: “Americans are obsessed with sex and fearful of black sexuality.”
3.) Page 131: “Only by living against the grain can we keep alive the possibility that the visceral feelings about black bodies fed by racist myths and promoted by market-driven quests for stimulation do not forever render us obsessed with sexuality and fearful of each other’s humanity.”
4.) Page 151: “Only if we are as willing as Malcolm X to grow and confront the new challenges posed by the black rage of our day will we take the black freedom struggle to a new and higher level.”
3- Realpolitik (page 96) - political realism or practical politics, esp. policy based on power rather than on ideals
Conflate (page 98) - to fuse into one entity; merge
Nadir (page 104) - the lowest point; point of greatest adversity or despair
2- This reading reminded me of the time when I was talking with my friend who did not agree with different race marriages. We talked about it for a while and I began to become really frustrated with her. I did not understand why she thought it was not right to do that. Cornel West talks about how whites see different race marriages as a bad thing and he is true. There are many white people that think that this is not right. I do not understand why it is wrong and will never get why people can be so closed minded. Also, the reading reminded me of when I studied about Jews during the Holocaust. They went through so much and I do not understand how people could treat people that way just because of who they are. African Americans struggled just like the Jews did. They both are still struggling today.
1- What can we do, as teachers, to help our students of different races in our classroom feel comfortable with each other?
2/14/10
TED 3380
Race Matters 5 4 3 2 1: Chapters 5-8
5- Cornel West talks about many different things in these chapters. He brings up affirmative action, black-Jewish relations, black sexuality, and ends his book talking about how powerful Malcolm X was and that we need to be more like him in order to change this world. He wants people to not just accept affirmative action but actually take real action to help race issues. Also, we need to be more like Malcolm X who spoke with power and rage.
4- 1.) Page 116: “Without some redistribution of wealth and power, downward mobility and debilitating poverty will continue to drive people into desperate channels.”
2.) Page 119: “Americans are obsessed with sex and fearful of black sexuality.”
3.) Page 131: “Only by living against the grain can we keep alive the possibility that the visceral feelings about black bodies fed by racist myths and promoted by market-driven quests for stimulation do not forever render us obsessed with sexuality and fearful of each other’s humanity.”
4.) Page 151: “Only if we are as willing as Malcolm X to grow and confront the new challenges posed by the black rage of our day will we take the black freedom struggle to a new and higher level.”
3- Realpolitik (page 96) - political realism or practical politics, esp. policy based on power rather than on ideals
Conflate (page 98) - to fuse into one entity; merge
Nadir (page 104) - the lowest point; point of greatest adversity or despair
2- This reading reminded me of the time when I was talking with my friend who did not agree with different race marriages. We talked about it for a while and I began to become really frustrated with her. I did not understand why she thought it was not right to do that. Cornel West talks about how whites see different race marriages as a bad thing and he is true. There are many white people that think that this is not right. I do not understand why it is wrong and will never get why people can be so closed minded. Also, the reading reminded me of when I studied about Jews during the Holocaust. They went through so much and I do not understand how people could treat people that way just because of who they are. African Americans struggled just like the Jews did. They both are still struggling today.
1- What can we do, as teachers, to help our students of different races in our classroom feel comfortable with each other?
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Ashley Jackson
2/6/10
TED 3380
Race Matters 5 4 3 2 1: Preface- Chapter 4
5- After reading, I think Cornel West wants his readers to remember that race does matter and African American people are treated differently than people that are white. So far, West talks about how nihilism invades black communities. Black people are nothing to white people and are not treated how they should be; equally. Cornel West is trying to tell the people of America to step up and quit being so closed minded. There are people of different races in America and it should not matter what color they are.
4- 1.) Page XVIII: “With roughly 40 percent of black children living in poverty and almost 10 percent of all black young adult men in prison, we face a crisis of enormous proportion.”
2.) Page 6: “To engage in a serious discussion of race in America, we must begin not with the problems of black people but with the flaws of American society- flaws rooted in historic inequities and longstanding cultural stereotypes.”
3.) Page 7: “Afrocentrism, a contemporary species of black nationalism, is a gallant yet misguided attempt to define an African identity in a white society perceived to be hostile, It is gallant because it puts black doings and sufferings, not white anxieties and fears, at the center of discussion.”
4.) Page 22: “Nihilism is to be understood here not as a philosophic doctrine that there are no rational grounds for legitimate standards or authority; it is, far more, the lived experience of coping with a life of horrifying meaningless, hopelessness, and (most important) lovelessness.”
3- Nihilistic (page 20) - total rejection of established laws and institutions. Anarchy, terrorism, or other revolutionary activity. Total and absolute destructiveness, esp. toward the world at large and including oneself
Apartheid (page XVII) - A rigid policy of segregation of the nonwhite population. Any system or practice that separates people according to race, caste, etc.
Paucity (page 12) - smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness
2- I have not had many experiences with racial issues. My parents raised me to be open minded and friends with anyone with any skin color. I have always gone to a school that was not closed minded and accepted everyone. The few times that I have had to deal with racial issues are when people would say things to someone out in public or someone I was friends with might say a comment or two. It is so sad that people care and say things about African Americans. I really do not understand how people can be like that?
1- What are some experiences you have had with race?
2/6/10
TED 3380
Race Matters 5 4 3 2 1: Preface- Chapter 4
5- After reading, I think Cornel West wants his readers to remember that race does matter and African American people are treated differently than people that are white. So far, West talks about how nihilism invades black communities. Black people are nothing to white people and are not treated how they should be; equally. Cornel West is trying to tell the people of America to step up and quit being so closed minded. There are people of different races in America and it should not matter what color they are.
4- 1.) Page XVIII: “With roughly 40 percent of black children living in poverty and almost 10 percent of all black young adult men in prison, we face a crisis of enormous proportion.”
2.) Page 6: “To engage in a serious discussion of race in America, we must begin not with the problems of black people but with the flaws of American society- flaws rooted in historic inequities and longstanding cultural stereotypes.”
3.) Page 7: “Afrocentrism, a contemporary species of black nationalism, is a gallant yet misguided attempt to define an African identity in a white society perceived to be hostile, It is gallant because it puts black doings and sufferings, not white anxieties and fears, at the center of discussion.”
4.) Page 22: “Nihilism is to be understood here not as a philosophic doctrine that there are no rational grounds for legitimate standards or authority; it is, far more, the lived experience of coping with a life of horrifying meaningless, hopelessness, and (most important) lovelessness.”
3- Nihilistic (page 20) - total rejection of established laws and institutions. Anarchy, terrorism, or other revolutionary activity. Total and absolute destructiveness, esp. toward the world at large and including oneself
Apartheid (page XVII) - A rigid policy of segregation of the nonwhite population. Any system or practice that separates people according to race, caste, etc.
Paucity (page 12) - smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness
2- I have not had many experiences with racial issues. My parents raised me to be open minded and friends with anyone with any skin color. I have always gone to a school that was not closed minded and accepted everyone. The few times that I have had to deal with racial issues are when people would say things to someone out in public or someone I was friends with might say a comment or two. It is so sad that people care and say things about African Americans. I really do not understand how people can be like that?
1- What are some experiences you have had with race?
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