Daniel Cohen Roots Exercise My family are primarily the descendants of Jewish immigrants from Russia, but even my grandparents are second-generation. However, my family looks very, very white, and doesn’t interact with the Jewish community, resulting in a white American lifestyle, and all the benefits and disadvantages that come with it. My mother went to […]
by Daniel Cohen The African Burial Ground is quiet and peaceful, but it is still in Manhattan. And Manhattan is a very, very noisy place. The burial ground is near the intersection of Lafayette and Centre Streets, not to mention right near Broadway, resulting in the serenity of the memorial sharply interspersed with the noise […]
Daniel Cohen Discussion Blog Post #3 Browsing the BeMore website, I immediately admired their purpose, which seems to be to eliminate the social construct of race. However, the key claim of their “Vision2040” campaign trailer, that there won’t be a racial majority by 2040, seems a bit odd. I find that human attempts to predict […]
Daniel Cohen Discussion Blog Post #2 In the present day, after centuries of social reform, it is tempting to declare racism over. In a sense, it is, at least overtly. Public figures who say racist things in public are ostracized, programs are in place to allow the disenfranchised (who are often of a racial minority) […]
Daniel Cohen Discussion Blog Post #1 Ginetta E. B. Candelario wrote a splendid analysis of the Anacostia Museum’s Black Mosaic exhibit, which covers the history of black immigrants in the Washington, D.C. area. Candelario’s principal argument is that the U.S. has a very binary concept of race, whereas many black immigrants from regions such as […]
As I stand on the High Line, I look around. Wind blows throughout the area, the cold breeze like a knife scraping across the unprotected parts of my skin, namely my hands and face, since I don’t own a ski mask and I neglected to wear gloves. On my right side, I see a rather […]
