AND OF COURSE THE ASSIGNMENT IS STILL DUE TODAY. ANY RESEARCH HELP YOU GET TODAY WILL HOPEFULLY BE USEFUL FOR YOUR FINAL DRAFT.
Scheduling Change: Because of a conflict at the library, our library research day will be MONDAY (11/12) in ROOM 101A of the library, rather than Wednesday as indicated on the syllabus. Therefore, this Monday proceed directly to 101A, where you will learn the library research system and, we can hope, find a bit more time to work on your research for the current assignment.
Please tell anyone from the class that you might see that class will be taking place, and tell them of the venue change. Thanks.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
11/7
As we discussed, the assignment for Monday is part 3 of the next project, the works cited page. In addition, if you have not given me a topic for your paper, or haven't cast it in the format we discussed during today's class, I suggest you do so via email as soon as possible. While I want the topic to be at the top of your works cited page for Monday, it would be best for you and for your research over the weekend if you have a set topic which I've seen and approved.
Note that many articles in the journals are quite long. The key here, then, is to read selectively and carefully yet quickly, but to also be sure you understand the author's entire argument and (because this will be required for the outline) know enough about it to quote from it without misrepresenting their point either generally or in the specific quotation you've chosen.
Lastly, the directions for this assignment are quite clear--look to the prompt (the handout today, but also available to the right) for all answers to how to approach this assignment.
Note that many articles in the journals are quite long. The key here, then, is to read selectively and carefully yet quickly, but to also be sure you understand the author's entire argument and (because this will be required for the outline) know enough about it to quote from it without misrepresenting their point either generally or in the specific quotation you've chosen.
Lastly, the directions for this assignment are quite clear--look to the prompt (the handout today, but also available to the right) for all answers to how to approach this assignment.
"As, such, I'm copshow menace and a shoe commercial demigod- one of the rough boys from our " hood and the living, breathing embodiment of hip-hop flava" The paragraph above this quote described the experience an young immigrant women had in an all black Los Angeles neighborhood. The quote proves that every single black male is associated with crime of some sort, as being some kind of a gangster. They are also associated with always listening to rap or hip hop.
"Then we became free on paper yet oppressed still."
This quote best explains the fact that, yes, slavery has been abolished many years ago along with racism, but we are all very aware of the racism that still exists today, especially towards African Americans.
"We were just about all slaves, so we were all niggas"
The word slave, is automatically associated with the word nigger. White people aren't the only ones who make this association, you see this in my quote because that quote was made by an African American.
"Then we became free on paper yet oppressed still."
This quote best explains the fact that, yes, slavery has been abolished many years ago along with racism, but we are all very aware of the racism that still exists today, especially towards African Americans.
"We were just about all slaves, so we were all niggas"
The word slave, is automatically associated with the word nigger. White people aren't the only ones who make this association, you see this in my quote because that quote was made by an African American.
Arguable Topics
Social Class will always be a problem because there is nothing we can do to change it.
They write that no matter what we do there is a point where we identify and “agree on a rigid ‘class’ hierarchy.”
We don’t decide in what class we are but we are in the class we fit and there is nothing we can do to change it.
We will always decide by ourselves that we “fit the psychological profile of” whatever class we fit.
The only way to go is to go white.
The goal of people is to be “born white” or “achieve whiteness”. It never I want to be Asian, Hispanic or Black. Like what is so bad about that.
Arguments
The culture we are born into and brought up in influences our decisions and provides a predictable future. Certain expectations are determined based on your culture as Annie Dillard seems to explain in "How to Live" when she states "You enjoy work, and will love your grandchildren, and somewhere in there you die." Presumable predictions classify a person according to their society.
Social status of a person may be defined by their race despite the irrationality, provided that media enhances ones classification according to clothes, accessories etc. According to Donnell Alexander who wrote "Cool Like Me" being black results in an automatic classification as 'cool.' He writes, "when mainstream America looks for cool we look to black culture. Countless new developments can be called great, nifty, even keen. But, cool? That's a black thang, baby."
Social structure defines and predicts ones stance in a community as people of the upper, middle and lower class are easily distinguishable due to steretotypes associated with them according to Paul Fissels "A Touchy Subject" as he explains how the middle class has a "tendency to get very anxious...and nervous about slipping down a rung or two. On the the other hand, upper-class people love the topic to come up...proletarians generally don't mind discussions of the subject because they know they can do little to alter their class identity."
Social status of a person may be defined by their race despite the irrationality, provided that media enhances ones classification according to clothes, accessories etc. According to Donnell Alexander who wrote "Cool Like Me" being black results in an automatic classification as 'cool.' He writes, "when mainstream America looks for cool we look to black culture. Countless new developments can be called great, nifty, even keen. But, cool? That's a black thang, baby."
Social structure defines and predicts ones stance in a community as people of the upper, middle and lower class are easily distinguishable due to steretotypes associated with them according to Paul Fissels "A Touchy Subject" as he explains how the middle class has a "tendency to get very anxious...and nervous about slipping down a rung or two. On the the other hand, upper-class people love the topic to come up...proletarians generally don't mind discussions of the subject because they know they can do little to alter their class identity."
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Arguments Jason
Argument 1: you reveal a great deal about your social class by the amount of annoyance or fury you feel when the subject is brought up. A tendency to get nervous is middle class. Upper class love the topic . Lower class does not mind the topic because they can do little about it.
Argument 2: Eric liu, I was Chinese and the girls were white I thought this was the sole obstacle of my advancement.
Argument 3: From How to live Annie Dillard says "any culture tells you how to live your one and only life".
Argument 2: Eric liu, I was Chinese and the girls were white I thought this was the sole obstacle of my advancement.
Argument 3: From How to live Annie Dillard says "any culture tells you how to live your one and only life".
Debatable statements
Environments will drive people to conform with the “stereotypes” that pertain to them.
-This can be seen throughout Eric Lui’s passage as he lists the reasons why
he is white.
Social classes are necessary in order for societies to exist.
-This statement is taken from pg. 481: “Those who sell ‘executive desks’ and
related office furniture know that they and their clients agree on a rigid ‘class’ hierarchy.” In other words, no matter how you look at it, societies will always have social classes attached to them because some people will become doctors
while others will become janitors.
Racial inequality is largely due to the problems of culture rather than innate racism.
-Taken from pg 413: “By the mid-nineteenth century, Western science and
culture…” Culture will have a great effect on the way people think which can lead to ideas of racial discrimination and such.
-This can be seen throughout Eric Lui’s passage as he lists the reasons why
he is white.
Social classes are necessary in order for societies to exist.
-This statement is taken from pg. 481: “Those who sell ‘executive desks’ and
related office furniture know that they and their clients agree on a rigid ‘class’ hierarchy.” In other words, no matter how you look at it, societies will always have social classes attached to them because some people will become doctors
while others will become janitors.
Racial inequality is largely due to the problems of culture rather than innate racism.
-Taken from pg 413: “By the mid-nineteenth century, Western science and
culture…” Culture will have a great effect on the way people think which can lead to ideas of racial discrimination and such.
three arguable topics
1. Why do people these days deny there are classes in the US? People deny that there are social classes in their own town by the amount of money they have or what they are capable of doing with that money. they say that everyone is the same because they don't want to see the separation.
2. Why does certain racial and ethnic stereotyping seem humorous to certain kinds of people, but at the same time offend other kinds of people?
3. why does income determine how far one will get when it is? schools are paying class valedictorians when they should be giving more aid to people who actually need it
2. Why does certain racial and ethnic stereotyping seem humorous to certain kinds of people, but at the same time offend other kinds of people?
3. why does income determine how far one will get when it is? schools are paying class valedictorians when they should be giving more aid to people who actually need it
Topics on diversity and stereotypes
Although he supreme court now supports affirmative action in colleges, according to Robert Sherman, the author of "10 Questions College Officials Should Ask About Diversity", there are issues in trying to sustain this new found diversity.
According to Robert Sherman in "10 questions College Officials Should ask", focusing on race to solve the lack of diversity problems "may be feedingthe stereotypes"
In "Coming Into the Country" Gish Jen says, "the monent we feel certain rights to be inalienable... we become American". In other words it's saying that it doesnt matter what rituals or stereotypes your culture has, as long as you feel you are free and no one can tae that freedom, you are American.
According to Robert Sherman in "10 questions College Officials Should ask", focusing on race to solve the lack of diversity problems "may be feedingthe stereotypes"
In "Coming Into the Country" Gish Jen says, "the monent we feel certain rights to be inalienable... we become American". In other words it's saying that it doesnt matter what rituals or stereotypes your culture has, as long as you feel you are free and no one can tae that freedom, you are American.
arguable topics
Argument: Students from higher income families will do better in school than those who have families with a lower flow of income. This issue is addressed when Robert Shireman notes in his essay “10 Questions College Officials Should Ask about Diversity”, while discussing a financial aid program, “his institution actually has a large enrollment of low-income students, and it is possible that their campus experience would benefit from a larger enrollment of less-needy, high-achieving students”
Argument: Those who conform or assimilate to a culture’s customs, actually feel torn and somewhat heartbroken when they abandon their original culture’s customs. This argument can connect to the idea Eric Liu conveys in his writing “Notes of A Native Speaker” when he says, “These were the moments when I realized I was becoming something other than my parents”.
Argument: Being cool is a necessity in order to get through life. As Donnel Alexander proclaims in his article titled “Cool Like Me”, “Humans put cool on a pedestal because life at large is a challenge”.
Argument: Those who conform or assimilate to a culture’s customs, actually feel torn and somewhat heartbroken when they abandon their original culture’s customs. This argument can connect to the idea Eric Liu conveys in his writing “Notes of A Native Speaker” when he says, “These were the moments when I realized I was becoming something other than my parents”.
Argument: Being cool is a necessity in order to get through life. As Donnel Alexander proclaims in his article titled “Cool Like Me”, “Humans put cool on a pedestal because life at large is a challenge”.
Arguments
Social class exists even in an industry in which the jobs are the same.
A Touchy Subject 481. "In the construction business there's a social hierarchy of jobs, with "dirt work," or mere excavation at the bottom; the making of sewers, roads, and tunnels in the middle; and work on buildings (the taller, the higher) at the top."
-The relation between the argument and this quote is that even in an industry like construction, where the workers do the same thing(construct), social class of lower, middle, and higher exists.
Racism is the cause of race, as opposed to it being the product of race.
Pg 413: "If prejudice is about ideas--unreasonable judgements or convictions--then discrimination is about behavior--unreasonable treatment based on class or category. Racism is a structural problem, a form of discrimination based on group identity that is embedded in institutional process of exclusion. As such racism is a social construct, more a cause than a product of race."
-The relation between the argument and this quote is that, the quote explains that racism is an unreasonable treatment towards a certain group, by means of using a exclusion method defined by society. This shows that racism, which treats a certain group unfairly by kicking them out, causes that group to be labeled as a certain race. An example of this would be, if you were to exclude a colored person from yourself because of their color, you categorize them as black,yellow, or brown. Thus your act of racism, has caused you to label that person as a "race."
A Touchy Subject 481. "In the construction business there's a social hierarchy of jobs, with "dirt work," or mere excavation at the bottom; the making of sewers, roads, and tunnels in the middle; and work on buildings (the taller, the higher) at the top."
-The relation between the argument and this quote is that even in an industry like construction, where the workers do the same thing(construct), social class of lower, middle, and higher exists.
Racism is the cause of race, as opposed to it being the product of race.
Pg 413: "If prejudice is about ideas--unreasonable judgements or convictions--then discrimination is about behavior--unreasonable treatment based on class or category. Racism is a structural problem, a form of discrimination based on group identity that is embedded in institutional process of exclusion. As such racism is a social construct, more a cause than a product of race."
-The relation between the argument and this quote is that, the quote explains that racism is an unreasonable treatment towards a certain group, by means of using a exclusion method defined by society. This shows that racism, which treats a certain group unfairly by kicking them out, causes that group to be labeled as a certain race. An example of this would be, if you were to exclude a colored person from yourself because of their color, you categorize them as black,yellow, or brown. Thus your act of racism, has caused you to label that person as a "race."
Monday, November 5, 2007
11/5
For Wednesday, read and/or familiarize yourself with pages 427-444 and 461-465 in Seeing & Writing. In addition, read Eric Liu's 'Notes of a Native Speaker' if you haven't done so already.
When you have done that, post here three arguable topics for an imaginary essay on the subject of stereotyping, racism, or class. Critically, these topics must be drawn from a question or topic found in the reading for Monday and/or Wednesday. Broad (but not too broad) questions of stereotype, racism, or class are of course fine, but there must be in your one or two sentence description of the paper's imaginary argument a connection between a quotation from the text(s) and your argumentative topic.
When you have done that, post here three arguable topics for an imaginary essay on the subject of stereotyping, racism, or class. Critically, these topics must be drawn from a question or topic found in the reading for Monday and/or Wednesday. Broad (but not too broad) questions of stereotype, racism, or class are of course fine, but there must be in your one or two sentence description of the paper's imaginary argument a connection between a quotation from the text(s) and your argumentative topic.
I am an ABC
I have straight black hair.
I speak mostly English.
I am not fluent in Chinese.
I celebrate Chinese New Year.
I eat dinner with my family every night.
I do not like math.
I went to Chinese school for 5 years.
I respect my elders.
I am becoming a buisness woman.
I enjoy watching television.
I speak mostly English.
I am not fluent in Chinese.
I celebrate Chinese New Year.
I eat dinner with my family every night.
I do not like math.
I went to Chinese school for 5 years.
I respect my elders.
I am becoming a buisness woman.
I enjoy watching television.
Ways to say I am Korean
-My mother owns a nail salon
-I watch korean dramas
-My house is never without kimchi
-I take my shoes off when I go inside a home
-Most of my friends are Korean
-I can game for 24 hours straight
-I am very ethnic
-I speak fluent Korean, and accented english
-I took a plane to America
-I have been asked if my father owns a deli
-I attend a church in which most, if not all members of the congregation are korean
-I watch korean dramas
-My house is never without kimchi
-I take my shoes off when I go inside a home
-Most of my friends are Korean
-I can game for 24 hours straight
-I am very ethnic
-I speak fluent Korean, and accented english
-I took a plane to America
-I have been asked if my father owns a deli
-I attend a church in which most, if not all members of the congregation are korean
Ten ways to say I am a B.A.P.
Here are some ways you could say I am a B.A.P.
1. Since elementary school, my social life was determined by my membership in Jack and Jill.
2. I eat fried chicken with a knife and fork.
3. Ebonics is not a part of my vocabulary.
4. When I attended Holyoke, I only dated boys from Amherst, Brown or Dartmouth.
5. Being a legacy predetermined my acceptance into A.K.A.
6. I summered at our house in Sag Harbor or my girlfriend’s in the Vineyard.
7. I know I will always find t hat perfect outfit when shopping at Lord & Taylor or Sack’s.
8. I only wear my mink at social occasions, never to work.
9. I cruise to the Caribbean in February and the Mediterranean in August.
10. My MBA in finance assures my invitation to many clubs and committees.
1. Since elementary school, my social life was determined by my membership in Jack and Jill.
2. I eat fried chicken with a knife and fork.
3. Ebonics is not a part of my vocabulary.
4. When I attended Holyoke, I only dated boys from Amherst, Brown or Dartmouth.
5. Being a legacy predetermined my acceptance into A.K.A.
6. I summered at our house in Sag Harbor or my girlfriend’s in the Vineyard.
7. I know I will always find t hat perfect outfit when shopping at Lord & Taylor or Sack’s.
8. I only wear my mink at social occasions, never to work.
9. I cruise to the Caribbean in February and the Mediterranean in August.
10. My MBA in finance assures my invitation to many clubs and committees.
Ways to say I am Dominican
- I love to dance merengue and bachata.
- I eat a lot of plaintains.
- I always ask for a discount on everthing I buy.
- I travel to Dominican Republic with my baggage passed the weighing limit.
- I eat rice beans and chicken every day.
- I own a hair salon.
- I have 5 brothers, 10 uncles, 25 cousins and 1 nephew.
- I go to a school where everyone calls me "primo"(cousin).
- I usually go to family parties.
- I celebrate my birthday in my house kitchen.
I am a Video Game Addict
- I talk about things most people don’t talk about.
- I like computer role playing games.
- I smell bad.
- I look unprofessional.
- I talk to my self.
- I have comic books.
- I love reading books about fantasy.
- I not healthy.
- I only talk about video games.
- I sound like a nerd.
I am from the south
I work on a farm with the land and animals.
I have many different types of guns.
I am a devout Christian.
I have many children.
I drive a pick-up truck.
I wear blue overalls.
I hate city-folk.
I wake up to a rooster's call.
I have a Confederate flag.
I am a cowboy.
I have many different types of guns.
I am a devout Christian.
I have many children.
I drive a pick-up truck.
I wear blue overalls.
I hate city-folk.
I wake up to a rooster's call.
I have a Confederate flag.
I am a cowboy.
Sunday, November 4, 2007
I am a Mexican
I am 5 feet tall
I am an illegal immigrant who hopped the border
I am a taco eater
I am a busboy,painter,dishwasher, etc.
I am a proud mother and or father of 9 children
I am a resident of Corona, Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, etc.
I am a soccer fanatic
I am very proud of being Mexican
I am frequently confused with Ecuadorians
I am a gang member
I am an illegal immigrant who hopped the border
I am a taco eater
I am a busboy,painter,dishwasher, etc.
I am a proud mother and or father of 9 children
I am a resident of Corona, Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, etc.
I am a soccer fanatic
I am very proud of being Mexican
I am frequently confused with Ecuadorians
I am a gang member
I am a teenager
I am a teenager.
I like to watch animations.
I prefer to read mangas than novels.
I like to wear t-shirts more than shirts.
I don't drink and smoke.
I like to play video games.
I like to wear jeans.
I am young.
I like to have fashionable products such as ipod and psp.
I am daydreamer.
I like to watch animations.
I prefer to read mangas than novels.
I like to wear t-shirts more than shirts.
I don't drink and smoke.
I like to play video games.
I like to wear jeans.
I am young.
I like to have fashionable products such as ipod and psp.
I am daydreamer.
I'm a female.
I'm emotional.
I'm dependant and unstable.
I cook.
I clean.
I make children and take care of them.
I nag.
I'm either uneducated or ditsy or both.
I get things with my outer appearance.
I am a gold digger.
I'm materialistic.
I love make-up, jewelry and fine clothes.
I'm a bitch.
I like to snuggle, share feelings and cry.
I hate sports and action movies.
I'm weak.
I'm dependant and unstable.
I cook.
I clean.
I make children and take care of them.
I nag.
I'm either uneducated or ditsy or both.
I get things with my outer appearance.
I am a gold digger.
I'm materialistic.
I love make-up, jewelry and fine clothes.
I'm a bitch.
I like to snuggle, share feelings and cry.
I hate sports and action movies.
I'm weak.
I am a male Asian American
I am very good at math.
I don't speak back to my elders.
I do not need to be heard.
I study all of the time.
I don't exist; rather "we" exist.
I plan to become a doctor, lawyer, etc.
I live with my parents.
I plan to support my parents until they die.
I am not very sociable.
I have slanted eyes.
I don't speak back to my elders.
I do not need to be heard.
I study all of the time.
I don't exist; rather "we" exist.
I plan to become a doctor, lawyer, etc.
I live with my parents.
I plan to support my parents until they die.
I am not very sociable.
I have slanted eyes.
I am rich
I have many maids
I get what I want, when I want it
I go on luxurious vacations and stay at the finest hotels
I recieve spa treatments daily
I am a member of a very exclusive country club
I have an unlimited credit card
I wear clothes from some of the top clothing lines
I have a mansion in Bel-Air
I have underlying confidence
I pay people off in order to get them on my side.
I get what I want, when I want it
I go on luxurious vacations and stay at the finest hotels
I recieve spa treatments daily
I am a member of a very exclusive country club
I have an unlimited credit card
I wear clothes from some of the top clothing lines
I have a mansion in Bel-Air
I have underlying confidence
I pay people off in order to get them on my side.
i am a mother
i am a woman.
i have very maternal feelings
i can feel empowered in my kitchen
i have not seen an unanimated film since before Disney's "The Lion King"
i can do more at one time than any working person i know
i have more hobbies than the average grandmother
i am forever cleaning somthing sticky off of the hand and faces of my children
i drive a minivan
i carry everything in my pocket-book, just in case
i have no time for myself or my husband
the closest i have come to a manicure in the last four years is finger painting with my children
i wouldnt trade my role for anything else in the world
i regret nothing
i have very maternal feelings
i can feel empowered in my kitchen
i have not seen an unanimated film since before Disney's "The Lion King"
i can do more at one time than any working person i know
i have more hobbies than the average grandmother
i am forever cleaning somthing sticky off of the hand and faces of my children
i drive a minivan
i carry everything in my pocket-book, just in case
i have no time for myself or my husband
the closest i have come to a manicure in the last four years is finger painting with my children
i wouldnt trade my role for anything else in the world
i regret nothing
10 ways to say im a nerd
I where glasses
I play chess
I love science
I where suspenders
I am awkward towards girls
I have only nerd friends
I walk funny
Im part of an exclusive book club
I snort when i laugh
I watch the discovery channel
I play chess
I love science
I where suspenders
I am awkward towards girls
I have only nerd friends
I walk funny
Im part of an exclusive book club
I snort when i laugh
I watch the discovery channel
I am old
I am old.
I walk with a cane.
I carry candy in my purse.
I wear too much makeup.
I can not drive.
I like to talk to people.
I enjoy telling people stories.
I have gained a lot of knowledge.
I am wiser than you.
I get up early.
I like to watch birds.
I walk with a cane.
I carry candy in my purse.
I wear too much makeup.
I can not drive.
I like to talk to people.
I enjoy telling people stories.
I have gained a lot of knowledge.
I am wiser than you.
I get up early.
I like to watch birds.
20 ways to say I'm Italian-American
1. I am family centered.
2. I am Roman Catholic.
3. I have at least one picture or statue of Jesus in my house.
4. I eat Sunday dinner at 2pm.
5. I know how to make the best sauce and meatballs.
6. I have at least one mechanic, plumber, electrician, accountant, travel agent or lawyer in my family.
7. I have at least 5 cousins who were named after my grandfather that live on my block.
8. I lived in a small house but still had two kitchens.
9. I know how to make a meal for 28 people.
10. My mother has plastic covered furniture.
11. I’ve been to the Vatican at least once.
12. My family fights over if its “sauce” or “gravy”.
13. I’ll have 25 people in my wedding party.
14. I respect those who respect me.
15. I Respect my elders.
16. I take great pride in my nationality.
17. I have family in Italy.
18. I am artistic.
19. I am a lover.
20. I Know how to have a good time at a party.
2. I am Roman Catholic.
3. I have at least one picture or statue of Jesus in my house.
4. I eat Sunday dinner at 2pm.
5. I know how to make the best sauce and meatballs.
6. I have at least one mechanic, plumber, electrician, accountant, travel agent or lawyer in my family.
7. I have at least 5 cousins who were named after my grandfather that live on my block.
8. I lived in a small house but still had two kitchens.
9. I know how to make a meal for 28 people.
10. My mother has plastic covered furniture.
11. I’ve been to the Vatican at least once.
12. My family fights over if its “sauce” or “gravy”.
13. I’ll have 25 people in my wedding party.
14. I respect those who respect me.
15. I Respect my elders.
16. I take great pride in my nationality.
17. I have family in Italy.
18. I am artistic.
19. I am a lover.
20. I Know how to have a good time at a party.
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