...by the diversity commission. It has been an honor and privilege working with the commission and I wish you the best in continuing to meet the ever changing diversity needs of the university and the surrounding community. Take care and God bless! Sincerely in warm regards, Question: What does the word ‘diversity’ mean to you? Large group session/personal reflection exercise Introduction This report contains the ideas, knowledge and insight that took place over a three and a half day session in Sackville, New Brunswick. The Youth For Diversity Project, aims to bring approximately 25 youth together in one arena to discuss, debate and create ideas and plans around the issue of diversity. Half of the session was spent looking at the individual and group definitions of diversity, with sessions that included both reflective and group exercises. Small groups were formed to further flesh out concepts around diversity—racism, ageism, sexual orientation, access to resources, etc.—to further understand the impact that diversity has had on us and those around us. To add to these sessions, four guest speakers were invited to address the group around particular issues that are present in our communities. The guest speaker topics ranged from immigration and refugee issues, queer youth issues, the Black Loyalists of New Brunswick and hate crimes which involve South-Asian and Muslim youth. The other half of the session was spent trying to understand and raise awareness to the...
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...English 123 II – 2.2 Final Project Milestone One: Annotation Bibliography By Vincent Berry WHAT IS YOUR RESEARCH QUESTION? Are record labels racism and political in the music industry? What impact does racism and politics have on the artist and fan base? SUMMORIZE SOURCE INFORMATION FOR EACH ANNOTATION Suisman, David. "Co Workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Black Swan Records and the Political Economy of African American Music." Teaching the Journal of American History Vol. 90, No. 4.March 2004 (2004): 1295-1324. Web. 1 Mar. 2004. African American owned Record Company, which produced records for African American consumers, was faced with attempts by a large record corporation to force them into bankruptcy. Why would a large company do this for such a small African American owned company? How would it merit attention from African American people in this medium when you have more important subjects like voting rights and lynching? Moreover, why would it merit any attention at all, not to mention, selling records to black consumers. This article answers these questions and investigates the rise and fall of the small record company and explores the political economy in which it operated. Black Swan Records created by Henry H. Pace, who saw a way to respond to a hostile environment that African American people faced with, both in the entertainment industry and in American society. The protégé of W.E.B Du Bois, also saw that African Americans were not equally even when they...
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...COMS 354: The Visual Culture of Crime Kristina Ezhova 260454703 April 9, 2015 “Monster”: Misogyny, Racism, and Popular Culture Kanye West is a prominent figure in popular culture nowadays and his reputation is quite complicated and conflicting. West is acclaimed as one of the best rappers of this era, and is celebrated as a successful entrepreneur and fashion designer. However, he is also frequently condemned for his outspoken personality and offensive attitude. From numerous acceptance speech interruptions to questionable interviews and statements, Kanye West has created a contradictory image for himself in the media and is often characterized as a misogynist. The music video for his single “Monster,” in which he collaborated with Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Bon Iver, and Nicki Minaj, was released in 2011 and almost immediately became known as deeply controversial: the six-minute clip, which depicts dead women hanging from ceilings and scantily clad in lingerie, was banned by MTV for its violence and explicit content toward women (Vassar). Undeniably, the misogynistic theme runs throughout the video, however, West has defended himself by stating that “the concept of models hanging or people being eaten alive or [other] type of visuals for a horrific video was purely artistic” and addressed the ignorance of misogynistic accusations by claiming that “they [women’s rights activists] couldn’t understand how a rapper can have a taste high enough to do something like that without being...
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...community were still very prevalent factor. Musicians, poets, writers and other creatives still managed to flourish. On the contrary, poverty stricken neighborhoods consumed by drug activity, prostitution, racism and scarce resources seemed to have impacted the majority throughout the city. This may have been a result from the continuation of oppression that blacks experienced from the residuals of The Great Depression and The Great Migration. The author vividly describes Harlem in a sober manner. Poverty is the clearest painted picture. One can picture homeless people walking about, trash filled streets and numerous people in a state of stagnation, just standing outside roaming. There sounds of hopelessness and lost souls can be heard as the unnamed narrator describes the condition of Harlem at that time. When his brother goes away to jail, the disappointment rattles through his voice. The conversation with Sonny's drug addicted friend yields a sense of sympathy and disgust at the same time. Upon Sonny's return, the narrator depicts Harlem as a place of entrapment. He was bringing his brother “back into the danger he had almost died trying to escape” (76). During the flashbacks that the narrator detailed, the reader can get in tune with the hardships many of the residents in this area experienced. The schools were of lesser value to white ones, with scarce resources and high drop out rates. The projects were congested and realistically uninhabitable, though as they grew up they...
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...Diversity, before this course was really just a word to me. Studying the meaning of diversity and learning about the benefits that a brought forth when living in a diverse culture has made this word much more than just letter but a goal for a new lifestyle. Learning that we as people can be broken down into simple groups, “there are four groups of people identified by race, ethnicity, religion, and gender” (Schaefer, 2012). From these groups we can be further more separated into our separate cultures. When we come together from different walks of life and create a diverse culture, we gain the knowledge and skills of many people with new and different ideas to better our culture. America is a great example of diversity, we are a nation made of immigrants from every other nation in the world and also compiled of our Native Americans. Our diverse nation has earned us a nick name as a melting pot, which as explained by Schafer is a “diverse racial or ethnic groups or both, forming a new creation, a new cultural entity.” Not only do we learn about others when we study cultures and groups, we also learn about ourselves; discovering things about our ancestors and how we came to where we are today. The most basic of groups for me would be simply white, while historically this group was actually to describe the English and did not include the Irish. When we think of white in the terms of race we now think of just a skin color and not what nation the person or their ancestors...
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...George Romero is one of the most creative innovators of the zombie film genre and uses the scary images of zombies feeding on human beings to depict a crumbling American society. The America Romero focuses onfocused on by Romero is one where consumerism and racism have become very rampant creating inequalities (Gagne, 1987). Romero does not explicitly show the inequalities in the movies but he uses symbols to show the societies levels that perpetuate poverty, often the poor African Americans. In his interview with the NY Times, Romero said that his zombie movies are symbols of revolution, a generation consuming another. This paper will discuss the theme of consumerism/consumption as portrayed in the Romero’s films in reference...
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...examples of how these women writers challenge the essentialists’ claims. Beauty standards are a prevailing theme in “The Bluest Eye,” by Toni Morrison. Young black girls, like the character Pecola, have to face the hurdles that the color of their skin causes for them. A theme in the novel is that whiteness is a sign of beauty, and the closer you are to fair skin the closer you are to being beautiful. This is seen when Pecola is on the playground at school and “A group of boys [were] circling and holding at bay a victim, Pecola Breedlove...It was their contempt for their own blackness that gave the first insult its own teeth” (Morrison 54). The author’s purpose of this encounter is to show how racism can occur within a race. The boys are insecure about the dark color of their skin, so they project their hatred onto Pecola who has darker skin than they do. By portraying the struggles of a young, dark skinned girl, Morrison is writing about a controversial topic and one that most would not be brave enough to discuss. While Morrison outwardly writes about confrontational issues, she also uses symbols and metaphors to take the reader deeper into the subject of race and social status. The character Claudia MacTeer is a foil for Pecola Breedlove. She does not idolize the white porcelain dolls. Instead, she “had only one desire: to dismember it. To see what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find beauty” (Morrison 20). The doll is a symbol for the perfect human through the gaze of...
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...The Territory, My Enemy: Rudy Salas, Sr., a sculptor and painter, his father's hatred of gringos stemmed from fighting against them when Pershing went after Pancho Villa in Chihuahua. When he went to first grade he realized that the gringos were his “enemy,” but was told he was inferior simply due to the fact he was Mexican. Also, knew that his teachers, white teachers, were his enemy as well, but he did not know why. He refers to his feelings of racism as an "insanity" he developed after being beaten by police in 1942 when he was a zoot-suiter. His eardrum was soon fractured, and then became deaf because of the retaliation amongst the officers from a punch he had thrown. He says he does not like feeling the hatred toward white police officers. Going back and forth with this story, but saying, ”But you see, I’m still prejudice against whites, but I’m not a racist!” Here’s a Nobody: These Curious People, goes over the time Stanley K. Sheinbaum, former president of the Los Angeles Police Commission, talks about the time that Maxine Waters, congresswoman from Los Angeles, asked him to go with her to Nickerson Gardens to view the police response to gang meetings. She explained there meetings as “gang member coming together to form truces.” Josie Morales in Indelible Substance is a clerk-typist for the city of Los Angeles who witnessed the Rodney King beating. She lived in the apartment next to that of George Holliday, the man who shot the videotape of the beating. Morales reports...
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...Diversity Awareness class, I’ve always thought diversity was more geared around discrimination and racism. Through weekly readings and discussions, I have discovered that diversity is much broader than that. There are many countries that are mixed culturally with people from all over the world, but none like the United States. The United States has the largest mixed culture in the world. Growing up in South Carolina I was exposed to different cultures, however I never fully witnessed some of the cultural things I’ve witnessed since joining the Army. My time in the Army has taken me places I never would have imagined and have exposed me to many different cultures. Reasons for taking BEHS Diversity Awareness I am pursuing a baccalaureate degree in Criminal Justice and it is required for me to complete 6 semester hours of Behavioral and Social Science courses. I’ve always been fascinated with understanding and learning more about different cultures and their beliefs but never took the time. Prior to selection of this course, I read the course scopes to decide which Behavioral and Social Science course would peak my interest, and be more useful in my degree field. Having a future plan to enter into the Law Enforcement field upon retirement from the Army, I figured increasing my understanding and knowledge of racism...
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...Post-National Enquiries Post-National Enquiries: Essays on Ethnic and Racial Border Crossings Edited by Jopi Nyman Post-National Enquiries: Essays on Ethnic and Racial Border Crossings, Edited by Jopi Nyman This book first published 2009 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 12 Back Chapman Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2XX, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2009 by Jopi Nyman and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-0593-9, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-0593-3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments ..................................................................................... vii Chapter One................................................................................................. 1 Introduction Jopi Nyman Part I: Crossing Racial Boundaries Chapter Two ................................................................................................ 8 Between Camps: Paul Gilroy and the Dilemma of “Race” Tuire Valkeakari Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 30 Breaking the Apartheid: Blocking Actors of Color in Globalized Multicultural...
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...Rosenberg, Executive Director Saskatchewan Association for Multicultural Education Project #58 July 2001 This research was partially funded through a grant from the McDowell Foundation. However, the points of view and opinions expressed in project documents are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation. The purpose of the Dr. Stirling McDowell Foundation for Research into Teaching is to fund research, inquiry and dissemination of information focusing on instruction (both teaching and learning) in the context of the public elementary and secondary education system. Specifically, it will: 1) contribute to knowledge about teaching and learning; 2) encourage educational inquiry through a wide range of methodologies; 3) support the involvement of practising teachers in active research projects; 4) encourage organizations as well as individuals to determine and act in areas of research and inquiry; and 5) encourage experimentation with innovative ideas and methodologies related to teaching and learning. The Foundation is an independent charitable organization formed by the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation in 1991. It is governed by a Board of Directors with the assistance of an Advisory Committee of representatives from the educational and business communities. The selection and evaluation of projects funded by the Foundation is carried out by a teacher-led Project Review Committee. Inquiries concerning research supported by the McDowell Foundation...
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...groups. The authors examine the connections between cultural diversity, innovation and thriving, prosperous urban communities, in relation to the economic, social and cultural mix of Britain’s population. They developed tools to harness the potential of diverse communities, and their powers of innovation, for use by policymakers, planners and practitioners. These include a set of indicators of openness to check the readiness of a city to take advantage of diversity, and the intercultural lens through which professionals can examine the familiar in a new light. The study evaluated six aspects of local activity: public consultation and engagement urban planning and development business and entrepreneurship schools the arts and creative industries sport. The project went further by helping participating cities to develop specific economic, social, cultural and planning policies and so to become role models for others. The study draws on local case studies and in-depth interviews with 33 intercultural innovators in seven UK cities, with comparative analysis also conducted in Europe, North America and Australasia. It is aimed at policymakers and practitioners in local and regional government, neighbourhood renewal and community cohesion. This publication can be provided in alternative formats, such as large print, Braille, audiotape and on disk. Please contact: Communications Department, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, The Homestead, 40 Water End, York YO30 6WP. Tel: 01904 615905. Email:...
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...Why Has Star Trek Lasted For So Long: The Longevity of Star Trek Thomas E. Stevenson Limestone College Author Note Thomas E. Stevenson, Department of Social Work, Limestone College. This research was supported in part by a grant from the Sample Grant Program. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Thomas Stevenson, Department of Social Work, Limestone College, Gaffney, SC 29340. Contact: saevok09@gmail.com Abstract This paper will explore the science fiction show Star Trek. It will look at Gene Roddenberry’s original idea behind the 1960s show. What made it so appealing? Why has it lasted so long? Also does JJ Abrams’ Star Trek lack the Gene Roddenberry’s vision? ). It began nearly fifty years ago in the 1960s with the original show simply called Star Trek. The setting of the show is the 23rd century aboard the Starship Enterprise. The ship is commanded by a Caucasian man from Iowa named Captain James T. Kirk. His first officer/ science office is the half-Vulcan half-human Spock. The ship’s chief physician is a Caucasian man from the southern state of Georgia. The ship’s chief engineer is the Scotsman Montgomery Scott. The bridge communication officer is a black African woman Nyota Uhura. The ship’s helmsman is Asian-American Hikaru Sulu. Finally, the ship’s navigator is man of Russian decent Pavel Chekov. Why Has Star Trek Lasted For So Long: The Longevity of Star Trek From its beginning, Star Trek made a strong commitment to what is now...
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...those who are participating hence these students will gain confidence and this will help them to communicate their ideas and feelings building trust between them and the educator. The brainstorming session should be non-judgmental and accept the ideas of each and every one. When educators are accepting ideas she is demonstrating caring that help students have pride in the classroom and reduce their frustration and stress. A creative learning environment will be established where students will feel comfortable by asking and answering question. The educator will listen to her learner’s opinions thus building trust and a positive rapport. ii) Racial mix and different culture As teacher leader, I would promote mutual respect and tolerance among learners by showing them the impact that racism can have on others. If we want to change the society we need to educate ourselves first (Baldwin, 2001).I would group my students in teams and assign them a small presentation on previous racism attack that happened around the world. The facts that students will learn on racism attack might bring emotions in them and make them realise how their friends feel when they are being harassed. The group will work require each student to contribute to the assignment. In this way students learn that each person in a group can contribute and has something of value to say. Through the creation of a team, educators can attempt to break down the superficial barriers that students may see when they are individuals...
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...restrictions of present reality. Each tutorial activity is crafted to correlate with the concerns of the lecture material. Tutorials transpose the fundamental concerns dealt with in the subject matter of the lectures and ‘activate’ these ideas by having students demonstrate their knowledge not just in the form of individual written exercises, but through the vitally necessary process of engaging their tutors and peers in structured discussion. It is thus clear that the success of a tutorial is dependent on student participation, and as clear that the success of a tutorial depends on students being intrigued by the content of the course. In order to achieve this, the tutorial exercises are related to the South African context. Scientific racism is one radical dimension of the misappropriation of science that allows science and technology to be problematised for a generation of students enamoured and ensconced within a highly technological world. As a genre which explores technology’s perils,...
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