As a minority in race and gender, I am aware of the issues raised in the books we are reading. It could be overwhelming and frustrating, and most importantly depressing when putting all these issues under the critical theory lens. Although I still believe that everyone has the potential to make a difference, I do have a lot of doubts. After all, we are still facing the harsh reality after centuries and centuries of efforts collectively. Race, gender, class and sexual bias are undeniably there and everywhere. Is it due to the failure of our education system? What is it? With all these questions in my mind, I interviewed several colleagues to understand how they make sense of these issues The first person I talked to is a Chinese friend who
We have worked together for more than 10 years and know each other very well. She is white, catholic and attends church regularly. She and her husband hold an extreme republic view and would jump to criticize the current president whenever that topic is raised. In my eyes, she represents a typical white supremacy person who shares many of Dorland Trump’s viewpoints. Her husband is working for a disability office as a medical staff. She is very upset about the broken system that does not offer support to those who truly need the benefit. She respects those who achieve success through hardworking and she supports Ben Carson because she respects him as a decent person. When I asked her whether she thought racism is a problem now, she totally denied it. She said it was a problem many years ago but now these black people just made this up. She dismissed the black life matters movement. She told me that she had worked with people of different race background and she treated them based on their work not on their skin color. I challenged her to picture herself as a black person. She admitted later that she was ignorant in racism. She told me that she was raised up in a very racist family who would never accept a colored person. When I asked her about gender inequity, she said she did not think so. I told her some facts and she seemed reluctant to acknowledge this. I am not sure whether raising the awareness of gender inequality would help the oppressed people because it will make them feel mistreated and unsatisfied. Rather, raising the awareness to the authority (they might already know this and choose to turn a deaf ear to the issue) should be more efficient because they are the decision maker and likely bring a change to the culture by taking the issues into the consideration. For ordinary people like my colleagues, many have insecure feeling about their jobs deep down, it is challenging for them to risk their job to a
3) Why does she believe so much in Affirmative action?: If Affirmative action was to be implamented then white people would be discriminated just because they were white. If she is trying to abolish racism, causing racism towards another race isn't solving the problem.
Race is a social migrainous issue that many societies are faced because it divides people and brings many negative impact between people such as hatred, heartache, or even bloodshed. Even though race is hard to recognize and rarely happen in American society due to the successful civil rights movements, some people of minority groups are always feel the pressure of the Whites privilege that heavy weigh on their shoulders which hold them back from success, for example, Yosso, the author of Critical Race Counterstories Along the Chicana/ Chicano Educational Pipeline, addresses the educational disadvantage that Chicana/Chicano students are suffered because of race and racism. Yosso’s counterstories have affected people’s
Critical Race Theory (CRT) began in the field of law and has been used as a theoretical framework in educational research for over 15 years (Savas, 2014). Gloria-Ladson-Bilings and William F.Tate IV’s wrote an article, “Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education”, in 1995 and began the use of Critical Race Theory as a lens for future studies in education. The first tenet of CRT looks at race and racism through historical contexts. To explore this tenet, I will take a brief glance back to the beginning of our country and the beginning of white as a superior race.
concerns racial equality in America. The myth of the “Melting Pot” is a farce within American society, which hinders Americans from facing societal equality issues at hand. Only when America decides to face the truth, that society is not equal, and delve into the reasons why such equality is a dream instead of reality. Will society be able to tackle suc...
As a freshman at Cal-State Fullerton I began to ask my self where inequalities come from and what causes them, why does society use the term minorities and why minorities are oppress. While working at the Volunteer & Service Center I was invited to join a group that plan an event called the Social Justice Summit. This event was a grassroots event that helped raise awareness about different inequalities and oppressions in the community to over 500 community members. With this event, I understood that there isn’t one solid answer that exists about what causes inequalities and oppressions. And even now, the only thing that is clear is that people need to know what is happening in the world. This is why I want to continue my education in the field of Ethnic Studies. Specifically I want to find out the struggles of the Chicano/a population. Find out about pass movements and what we can learn about those movements, what we can improve about those movements, to help the Chicano population today.
Critical race theory (CRT) is a framework that may be useful for examining how racial climate impacts the undergraduate experiences of African-American students on college campuses (Murphy, Gaughan, Hume, & Moore, 2010). CRT draws from a broad base of literature in sociology, history, ethnic studies, women’s study, and law (Murphy, Gaughan, Hume, & Moore, 2010). CRT consists of five elements: 1) the centrality of race and racism, and their intersectionality with other forms of subordination, 2) the challenge to dominant ideology, 3) the commitment to social justice, 4) the centrality of experiential knowledge, and 5) the transdisciplinary perspective (Murphy, Gaughan, Hume, & Moore, 2010). Applying CRT to education is different than other CRT applications as it challenges traditional paradigms, methods, texts, and separate discourse of race, gender, and class by showing how social constructs intersect to impact on communities of color (Murphy, Gaughan, Hume, & Moore,
In this world we are constantly being categorized by our race and ethnicity, and for many people it’s hard to look beyond that. Even though in the past many stood up for equality and to stop racism and discrimination, it still occurs. In this nation of freedom and equality, there are still many people who believe that their race is superior to others. These beliefs are the ones that destroy our nation and affect the lives of many. The people affected are not limited by their age group, sex, social status, or by their education level.
Nicola Chiaramonte stated in her review of Albert Camus’ literary works that he was born during the time of turmoil at the beginning of the First World War, then came the Depression and Hitler and finally the Second World War. “The world in which he grew up was a strugPatrick Moser in his criticism about Albert Camus explains, in part, the title of The Stranger. “If we are able to refuse the misleading aid of religion or of existential philosophies, we then possess certain basic, obvious facts: the world is chaos, a ‘divine equivalence born of anarchy’; tomorrow does not exist, since we all die. ‘In a universe suddenly deprived of light and illusions, man feels himself a stranger. This exile is irrevocable, since he has no memories of a lost homeland and no hope of a promised land’” (Moser).
The first chapter is about the origins and the purpose of CRT, the second chapter is an analysis of the methodological tools of CRT, the third chapter highlights the key themes of CRT, the fourth chapter provides us with some useful information about the racial inequalities in education and the last chapter is about the influence of CRT in education and the way that it helps us to understand some racial inequalities that take place in the field of education. 1. What is the difference between a. and a The Origins and Purpose of Critical Race Theory. Critical Race Theory (CRT) comes from the scholarship of Critical Legal Studies (CLS) which has observed the continuing domination and power of some groups, such as males and whites, over some other groups and it has argued that political and social change was necessary (Taylor, 2009). Derrick A.... ...
is still not a color blinded country; racism still exists. According to David Wellman, racism is “a system of advantage based on race” (Tatum 7). In another word, racism gives social advantages to some at the expense of others perceived to be inferior. For example, blacks have suffered from higher rates of unemployment than whites. Whites have more promotion opportunities, while racialized persons may find themselves subjected to excessive monitoring or may be more seriously blamed for a common mistake. In the educational system, racism is “prejudice plus power” (Tatum 7). Tatum believes that racial prejudice, when combined with social power…leads to the institutionalization of racist policies and practices (8). It seems that being white could enjoy societal privileges. Many black people like Tiana experienced different kinds of racism in their lives on many different levels. Not anyone like Tiana determines to spend her life fighting for racial and gender equality because they do not have opportunities to learn and explore the history of the race and the essence of the racism. School education does not only teach students the necessary knowledge about ethnicity and develop their awareness of differences, but also encourages them to rethink the troubling history and root causes and figure out ways to challenge, change, or conquer social inequality, discrimination, and
The abundance of west versus east comparisons has always been at war. From what utensils is the most effective way to eat, to which entity is it better to follow. Chinese Conflict Preferences and Negotiating Behavior: Cultural and Psychological Influences, by Kirkbride, Tang, and Westood (1991), is no different. This article submits a comparison of differences in conflict management and negotiation styles by westerners and easterners.
Up until this year, before taking the class intermediate composition, I thought I was a terrible writer. I was right. Writing isn’t something that I enjoy doing, nor am I good at. Writing is difficult for me because I’m not very good at explaining things in a professional manner, that can be easily well written. While writing you are expected to make little to no mistakes, which is not something I’m great at. I am so much better at explaining things with verbal words rather than written words. I had not taken any extra writing classes before this year rather than the mandatory ones. Like I had stated before, I hate writing, with a passion. I dread writing anything, especially an essay for school, like this one. I’m
The ability to reflect critically on one’s experience, integrate knowledge gained from experience with knowledge possessed, and take action on insights is considered by some adult educators to be a distinguishing feature of the adult learner (Brookfield 1998; Ecclestone 1996; Mezirow 1991). Critical reflection is the process by which adults identify the assumptions governing their actions, locate the historical and cultural origins of the assumptions, question the meaning of the assumptions, and develop alternative ways of acting (Cranton 1996). Brookfield (1995) adds that part of the critical reflective process is to challenge the prevailing social, political, cultural, or professional ways of acting. Through the process of critical reflection, adults come to interpret and create new knowledge and actions from their ordinary and sometimes extraordinary experiences. Critical reflection blends learning through experience with theoretical and technical learning to form new knowledge constructions and new behaviors or insights.
we don’t know them, is crucial. In this paper, I define compassion as a process of noticing others suffering, appraising its significance, feeling empathetic concern, acting towards alleviating their pain and learning from the experience. Each step of the process is discussed as follows:
When I first entered high school, I never had any indication that all my expectations would be shortly dissipated. When I thought of high school it had been the whole 90’s point of view where there were the cool kids and the cliques and the bullying and the jocks and so on. To my surprise however, people were more than their supposed position in the system, they were human, they were all free and all- like me, experiencing a brand new start to their lives.