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Yellow Rage Squashes Preconceptions of Poetry
They are not gentle, organic souls lamenting their plight as Asian Women but rather loud, abrasive, and berating audiences with a mixture of different curse words. This delivery represents the minority revelation in the last century: the toppling of white supremacy will not result from compliance. Yellow Rage understands this, for example, upon entering the…
If You Have to Rely on Race to Make a Joke, You’re Not That Funny
And I what I mean by that is this, if you are only able to make people laugh by making a joke about their race, are you really that clever? Typically, almost all of these jokes that mention race are based on over-used and untrue stereotypes, for example, within Andrew Schulz’s “Best BBQ by Race”…
“Iggy Iggy/ Too biggie to be here stressin’”
I agree with the author that Iggy Azalea uses Black culture and Black English within her rap music. Many people will argue that Azalea is using these tactics to gain credibility in the industry. While it is important to acknowledge how these tactics have advanced her rap career, it is not necessarily essential to analyze…
Whiteness in America
Upon reading chapter eighteen, “Whiteness and Ethnicity in the history of “White Ethnics” in the United States, the piece that I found most interesting was the process of immigrants becoming “white”. Specifically, as mentioned in the reading, the individuals immigrating from Europe who had fair skin yet had not adopted the privilege and ignorance that…
Coyote Nation
While reading the exerts from Coyote Nation, I found how societies in New Mexico used the physical body to create power for white Americans and expand colonization efforts. More specifically, how imperial efforts were able to associate the Native American/ Hispanic body with filth and the white body with cleanliness. This idea was highlighted in…
Racism in American Schools
What does the viral video from Carroll ISD indicate about our American school systems? When I first saw that the video was from Southlake, Texas, I was not surprised. When I saw that the video came from students in Carroll ISD, I was not surprised. Even as I was watching the video, I was…
To Go Against History
It was indeed no surprise to me when I read the Trump Administration’s memorandum that my jaw fell open. I was horrified yet not surprised at the text that was heavily laced with racism and white fragility. One thing that immediately caught my attention was describing the use of Critical Race Theory as anti-American. The…
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Exploring Critical Race Theory 