I should start by saying that I do believe that some symptoms of gentrification are not intentional, a belief presented in Recent Trends: Gentrification and Globalization. As an amateur artist, I can confirm that there is a need for low-cost workspaces. Art supplies are quite expensive, yet as art projects can pile up, affordable places […]
I come from an interracial family. We have similar goals in life, particularly about education. After all, opportunity is what is supposed to make America quite appealing. Due to my background, certain opportunities, namely higher education, have been available. My grandfather encouraged my father to pursue higher education, probably because he wasn’t able to. My […]
The biggest question raised in Ehrenreich and Hochschild’s Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy is: why aren’t we doing more for these women? American feminism has covered issues about women in the workforce, yet we ignore the women who work here from other nations. Now, it has been argued that the […]
I didn’t expect the museum to be so small. To me, such a tragic site deserved much more. And yet, the size was perfect. It was intimate. The exhibition was not about slavery alone, but about people. This is made clear when one sees the central display: models of a family gather around to coffins, […]
I should start by saying that I noticed the criticism towards the Eduardo Bonilla-Silva document, Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States, first. Thus I do not deny the possibility of bias. I can see why people find Bonilla-Silva’s article to be rather horrible. In 2006, Bonilla-Silva couldn’t […]
In “Behind the Black Ears”–and Up Front Too? Dominicans in The Black Mosaic,” by Ginetta E.B. Candelario, the idea of “the box” is presented. The box is the idea that racial identity is more important than national or ethnic identity. A Dominican woman, Carmen Quander, said, I am a person of color and very proud […]
On the way to the High Line is Chelsea Market, an indoor gallery of stores. People whisked to and fro, in and out, buying lobsters, sandwiches, shirts, and more. The lighting is average, but the brown halls give off a dark feeling, like a portal to a new realm. A portal that included an energetic […]
