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  Life, Deferred (Vida Diferida) [Video file] Avila-Hanna, B. (Director). (2017).. New Day Films. Retrieved June 1, 2020, from Kanopy.      This reading holds so much truth about the reality and the struggles of an immigrant in this or any country. Struggles of language, identity, culture, social status, legal barriers and many other issues that are shadowed and disregarded by the questioning of “Why did they come here in the first place”.  This issues are so evident in my life because I am surrounded by people and students that in their efforts to look for a better life “Something had to be lost, something had to die!” In this reading we can taste a little bit of the struggle of language loss and how it affects culture and identity, it reminded me about a documentary that I want to share with you. “Life, Deferred (Vida Diferida)”(Avila-Hanna, 2017) which shows not only the struggles mentioned above, but in addition, the struggles of facing society and legal pol...

THE ORIGIN OF RACE IN THE USA - VIDEO In this article, Johnson had the following main points:  Explain the origins of the idea of dominant race - White race The development of white power that lead to white privilege.  How white privileges of wealth and power are inherited but usually not perceived. How social systems create paths of least resistance (to follow social norms related to gaps of privilege and do not oppose them).   Origins of race Under Johnson’s perspective, the idea of a dominant race originated when the British struggled to conquer Ireland, and it was that frustration  caused by Ireland’s stubborn resistance that led the British to believe that Irish were inferior savage people. This was the invention of the concept of  race where the British were in the position of dominance.  Later on, the  British brought that cultural belief to North America, along with the sense  of superiority. During the 18th and 19th century, in the m...

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                            ( Kimberlé Crenshaw)        The first thing that came to my mind, when talking about intersectionality and after thinking about where I would fall; is something that we have been talking about a lot lately in our class and not necessarily from the same perspective. I’m referring to the stereotype of a “Heterosexual white man” and the “privileges” that come with it.       I would argue that despite all the privileges that a heterosexual white male is supposed to have, at the end of the day, each person is a whole unique world, as any of us. We are all human, are all faulty at something, all lack of something, are disadvantaged in an area, struggled in an area of life, have different shades of personality, have different levels of intellectual skills, raised in different environments or cultures, come from different socio-economic cl...

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