The migration of impoverished workers from developing countries to those already developed is akin to a transaction. By tending to work deemed unsatisfactory by middle to upper-class women, migrant workers improve their families’ financial backing to the extent that they become the primary breadwinners within their households. The term household is used loosely in describing […]
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 […]
The article, Global Women: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, shocked me because I wasn’t aware that so many women from third world countries migrate to first world countries just to make money by taking care of other people’s children. Of course, I was aware that maids and nannies exist, but I didn’t realize […]
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 […]
I had gone looking for a field of some sort. As we walked down Broadway, that seemed less and less likely. Feeling pressured by the ticking time, already 5 minutes late, it seemed impossible we would find the right place. Broadway is a busy commercial area. Surely there isn’t space for a graveyard. I pictured […]
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, […]
The African Burial Ground Memorial visit was mind opening. The memorial was small but it’s significance was far greater. It’s tribute to the real colony builders that sacrificed their flesh and bones for the foundation of New York was touching. The movie that was shown stated that the way we treat our dead is a signifier […]
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 […]
The African Burial Ground was something I had neither seen nor ever heard of before prior to our trip. The fact that it had never made its way into any of my classrooms before this semester, despite twelve long school years. I found it interesting that I had been to museums and monuments, such as […]
“I WANT TO LIFT THE VEIL OF DELUSION THAT SEPARATES US.” Veil of delusion. Intense words. A delusion implies an irrational belief, so for Anurag Gupta to voice this desire…this attempt to lift a veil of delusion, he must have his own rational argument behind Be More. As I looked through the website some more, […]
