In my hands are grains of Jasmine rice: bought from the supermarket, imported from Thailand, grown by Thai farmers. Just like the bags of Jasmine rice, my grandparents and parents originated in Thailand and moved to the United States. With them, they brought over their food. The food I eat today is the food my […]
I never really cared to ask about my family’s history to be honest. Most of what I know is from what I’ve overheard from conversations among family members. I just thought, “Eh, maybe this is all there is to know so why bother ask about it?”. I thought I already knew much of my family’s […]
Exploring the website Be More was a great experience as it was a departure from the normal 60-70 page readings due every week. Frankly, I enjoyed it much more than the usual readings since the website was interactive and easier to understand. The readings are cool too, but I liked the idea of exploring a […]
On Wednesday, March 30th, Mark, Sandy, Robin, and I left Brooklyn College to head to the African Burial Ground in Manhattan. We left immediately (by immediately, I meant we stopped by Burger King and bought food; we had coupons yaaas!) after English class at approximately 11:00 am. We went ahead of the rest of the […]
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva offered an interesting plan to assuage racial conflicts in Racism without Racists. He proposed something he called a “triracial system”. Explaining the structure of the system he writes, “the emerging triracial system will be comprised of ‘whites’ at the top, an intermediary group of ‘honorary whites’-similar to the coloreds in South Africa during formal […]
In “Black Behind the Ears”, Ginetta E.B. Candelario brought up an interesting point about how Dominicans in America used a tactic of embracing their “Latino identity” in order to combat “anti-black racism” and to distance themselves from their African heritage. Giving an example of this, Candelario writes, “Doña Campos clearly understood that she and her children […]
While reading “Making the Model Minority Myth” by Robert. G. Lee, I could not help but laugh at how true of a description of Asians in America we were given. A lot of the characteristics of Asian Americans talked about in the article resonated with me because as an Asian American myself I can say […]
Right off the bat, I have already lied to you. The title of this post says that I took “a little walk” to the High Line. And right off the bat, I have failed in properly being an ethnographer due to this lack of retelling with accuracy. The truth is that it was not a […]
