through their cell phones. A place where individuals are making changes to benefit themselves and the future generations. Today’s generation are living for the moment and not really thinking about the consequence for their actions. Pico Iyer and Bell Hooks both argues that people should start making “inner changes” in order to make “outer changes.” So what does this mean? Individuals should start thinking differently‚ stop challenging each other and start cooperating. With this one can possibly obtain
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African American Studies Final Paper The first reading I chose was “A’n’t I a woman” by Soujourner Truth. Soujourner Truth was originally named Isabella Baumfree at birth. Truth was born into slavery on November 26‚ 1883 in New York where she was later freed by the New York State Emancipation Act of 1827. This was written ten years before the Civil war and at this point‚ African Americans began fighting for their freedom. “A’n’t I a Woman?” was first heard during a famous speech given at a women’s
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I Need Him Sharon Flake tells the story of a girl who is struggling with her relationship in “So I Ain’t No Good Girl.” The narrator would do anything and everything for her boyfriend. She deals with him looking at other girls and the fights they have as a couple just to keep on being his girlfriend. You could even say she favors boys over her education. Even though Raheem‚ the narrator’s boyfriend‚ is abusive; she still stays with him. Flake provides the narrator’s emotions throughout the
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As I read the essay‚ “Trayvon Martin and I ain’t shit” by Questlove‚ I could already see the inaccurate negative responses pile up in the original posting on facebook. Not for his writing or stance on the case but for his revelation that the world we live in today is still very racist. I felt the pain and inconvenience of a man who lived his life to extreme measures‚ to protect others while belittling himself. Questloves size‚ and race prohibited him from living his life to his full potential because
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Bell Hooks’ Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom proposes an engaged pedagogy to handle the overwhelming sense of boredom‚ disinterest‚ and apathy that teachers and students feel about the learning experience. According to the author‚ the feeling of student alienation in the educational institutions can be traced to discriminatory‚ racist‚ and classist policies present in these settings. Hooks (1993) leverages on her past experiences to show the impact of race and gender on
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Telling Woman`s life is one of the most interesting class that I learned from. It changed my thought about being a woman and how women are valuable. I read different stories about what is the meaning of feminist‚ how woman suffered because of race‚ being a female and distinguishing between her and the man in social life‚ and how it is very important for women to express their idea and their feeling. Being a woman from different culture‚ I should think about the meaning of feminist and how to explain
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evident in Jerry Mander’s essay “The Walling of Awareness” and bell hooks’ “Touching the Earth.” In “The Walling of Awareness‚” Mander examines how the construction of big cities has impaired people’s relationship with nature. Similarly in bell hooks’ “Touching the Earth”‚ she argues that when the blacks migrated to the North they suffered both physically and mentally from their lost relationship with the land. Although Mander and hooks agree that we are disconnected to nature‚ both examine these losses
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Wells would’ve been comrades in arms (maybe no gun for bell hooks!) if they were contemporaries. I can’t help but wonder if hooks studied Ida B. Wells as she developed her feminist theories. There are many‚ many similarities between these two women in terms of feminist theory and their work against ideologies of oppression and domination. As I read through Wells’ autobiography‚ I was constantly reminded of bell hooks. For example‚ when bell hooks talks about her feminist theory‚ she places emphasis
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This Ain’t Chicago is Zandria F. Robinson’s study of the relationship between location and race‚ class‚ and gender. She identifies the regional differences‚ specifically of the African-Americans living in the south and north. The study analytically separates the southern blacks from their fictive kin and whites they correlate with in order to explore the differences in regional identities. The study took place in Memphis because Zandria believes that it “sits at the physical‚ temporal‚ and epistemological
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and Making Culture: Representing the Poor” by bell hooks‚ she is evaluating the misrepresentation of the poor and their values by society and explaining how humanity should change the way they label the underclass. Much of the nation believes that the poor do not have any values‚ morals‚ work ethic‚ integrity‚ and cannot be trusted. This is supported by hooks‚ concerning her college teachers and classmates remarks regarding the poor‚ when she quotes‚ “I was shocked…by the comments of professors and
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