Question 1: In “Interview With Julia Alvarez, 2009 F. Scott Fitzgerald Award Honoree”, interviewer Elizabeth M. Huergo, PhD., an English professor at Montgomery College, discusses briefly the concept of hyphenated space in the word Dominican American with Julia Álvarez. Álvarez states, “Uncomfortable space between is where the stories begin” (00:10:41- 00:13:00:00). Álvarez believes that the idea of being able to speak on behalf of two cultures, two nationalities are what make one a good writer.…
This thesis attempts to apply postcolonial studies on the case of Korean Chinese who are doubly dislocated and otherized, as I argue. It examines the identity of Korean Chinese as Korean ethnic minority in China and also ethnic return migrants in South Korea expressed in the literature. It explores the factors that trigger the identity crisis of Korean Chinese and constantly causing them to search for a new home. In doing so, two works written by a second-generation of Korean Chinese novelist…
African Americans do not go to trial because they are advised that they would earn an easier sentence from pleading guilty; innocent people are coerced into pleading guilty because it known that they will have a smaller chance of beating the charge in court. Some reasons for African Americans being dismissed from jury duty include: too young or old, single or divorced, religious or not, failed to make eye contact, lived in a poor part of town, had served in the military, had a hyphenated last…
Intro: Racial Profiling has been around for many years, and in fact continues to this day. What is racial profiling and when did it start? What kind of people does it affect? How many people died because of racial profiling itself? These are just some of the questions that I am going to answer for you today. Racial profiling in my opinion is horrible and should be stopped, but it could only be stopped if people wanted it to stop. There are many things on the news today about the shooting with…
Geronimo: A True American The brave Bedonkohe Apache leader Geronimo was able to accomplish many astonishing feats before he died at the age of seventy-nine in 1909. Some of these achievements include continuing his journey of bettering the lives of his people despite his own family being murdered when he was only twenty-nine (27). Geronimo fully embodies the hard-working and no excuses attitude that many Americans strive for. Geronimo in many ways possesses the same moral code and ideas that…
complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country 's representatives can figure out what is going on.” This was released by Trump’s campaign on June 28th of 2016—he is now the president-elect of the United States. Since 9/11, Americans have been taught to embrace islamophobia by big media outlets attempting to profit off injecting fear into the general public’s mind, spreading the bigoted owner’s bigoted views. These views have so widely caught on in our society that…
my desire for an American one. I wanted nothing to do with being Vietnamese or Asian because all that it had brought me was a sense of inferiority and constant bullying. My desire to suppress my Vietnamese identity brings up a point that is brought up by Ms. Mori, the protagonist’s friend with benefits. During one of their conversations, she asks, “So why are we supposed to not forget our culture? Isn’t my culture right here since I was born here?” (73). She is a Japanese American who has…
Yolanda to truly show how different other countries were compared to America at this time and how influential American young people were during the 1960s. America is well-known for their forcement on people different than the ‘immigrants’ we truly are. Although the 60’s was the time of love and acceptance, true acceptance didn’t really exist. People were becoming more acceptant of African Americans in the country due to Martin Luther King Jr.’s major movement. One problem America has always had…
about their race. This has been an ongoing problem in the African American community in the U.S. There have been incidents that have occurred that have been made internationally known like, the beating of Rodney King in 1991 and more recently the murder of Trayvon Martin. These events cause fear in the African American community when the police are involved. In the Rodney King beating consisted of a videotape of an African American male being beat continuously by four police officers during…
there is a dramatic difference in the risk of incarceration for persons who do not complete high school. Research by Bruce Western and Becky Pettit shows that 68percent of African American male high school dropouts had served time in prison by the age of 34 (Western & Pettit, 2010). Consider this: African Americans make up an estimated 15 percent of drug users, but they account for 37 percent of those arrested on drug charges, 59 percent of those convicted and 74 percent of all drug…