Ailing By Liz Cruz Summary

One’s identity has the ability to play a central role in one’s schooling experience and in return, affect the way they perceive the world around them. Growing up in an Asian household located in a predominately Asian American neighborhood located in the San Gabriel Valley, I always identified myself strongly to my race and took pride in being a first generation Asian American child. Race has definitely affected my schooling experience in many different ways, both positively and negatively. In addition, there were a variety of other aspects such as stereotypical gender roles and socioeconomic class status which factored into the way I learned in the U.S. education system. In this paper, I will examine how race, class, and gender played a big role throughout my schooling experience.

At the school she attended, her white friends tried to rub off her blackness. That one sentences when I read it, I was in shock! How could they do that to her? I continued reading and read she tried out for the football team. Eventually, as she grew older, and the years went by, she became a mother of two children named Alberta Stewart and Norma Holt, and a grandmother of five grandchildren Crystal, Alyssa, Michael, and Drew Stewart, and Sabrina Holt. Even though she had children and grandchildren’s, she felt her identity, as a Black Deaf woman was not defined, it was not until later in life where she found her

While reading, Make Your Home Among Strangers, readers are able to see connections between Lizet's problematic life and their own. The main connections related to me while reading was the difficulty to make friends and to deal with our home lives changing. Lizet struggled to make friends at Rawlings because everyone only looked at her for her ethnicity, and not her true personality. Her own roommate made comments consistently saying, "This is my roommate, Liz. She's Cuban" (Crucet 88). Lizet could not relate to many of the

On the very first day of the class, Introduction to the Black Experience, we learned that people are defined by their culture and geography. We are also defined by the gaze of others and our own gaze. This realization led me to contemplate what the “black experience” means to me. As a first generation Haitian-American woman at Wellesley College, it has become clearer to me how important the language and culture of parents has been in shaping my identity. I have also begun to think more critically about how my identity as a woman of color separates me from black brothers as well as my white peers at Wellesley.

“What doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger” (p. 28). In the scientific novel Survival of the Sickest by Sharon Moalem with Jonathan Prince, self-acclaimed “Medical Maverick” Dr. Moalem makes in-depth analyses of current human diseases that, ironically, may have led to the survival of mankind in the past. He presents a novel concept that greatly contradicts what have been universally accepted beliefs surrounding biology and the process of human evolution for a long time. With the use of myriad scientific studies and research, he formulates surprising theories about a positive correlation between disease and humanity. Moalem narrates the scientific world’s findings that strongly exemplify his assertions, however arbitrary they may seem at first. Three of the diseases that he examines, hemochromatosis, Type 1 diabetes, and favism, could have been particularly useful for resistance against other illnesses and survival in a historically harsh environment.

Also like Jackie, Beals had a life-changing experience, she was going to be one of the first African American students to attend an all-white school in Little Rock Arkansas. On her way to becoming one of the first African Americans to attend an all-white school, people did many hateful things to her. She had to be brave and confident to accomplish her goal of becoming the first African American to integrate into an all-white school. In paragraph eighteen, Beals states, ”We stepped up the front door of Central High School and crossed the threshold into that place angry segregationist mobs had forbidden us to go.” The “segregationist mobs” tried to prevent Beals’s entry into the school, which is a challenging event. These events caused Beals to grow and develop into one of the pioneers to integrate into an all-white school in Little Rock, Arkansas. In paragraph eighteen the text states, “Where none of my people had ever walked before as a student.” Beals’s reactions impacted her society by ending segregation in schools across the country. In paragraph sixteen, Beals states, “I felt proud and sad at the same time, Proud that I lived in a country that would go this far to bring justice to a Little Rock girl like me. But sad they had to go to such great lengths.” Her reactions impacted her society because now that the United States

It is often said that kids don’t usually understand race or racism, and that is true until Janie is met with kids who have faced oppression all their lives. Janie is a young girl who is raised by her grandmother in the deep South during the 1930’s. Janie lives among many white kids and doesn’t realize that she is not white until she sees a photo of the children and cannot identify herself in the picture. “Dat’s where Ah wuz s’posed to be, but Ah couldn’t recognize dat dark chile as me. So Ah ast, ‘where is me?’ Ah don’t see me’”(9). Janie didn’t know that she was a black girl because she had always been treated the same as the white kids, and they never treated her any differently than anyone else. The only kids that ever abused her with their words were the other black kids at school, they always teased her for living in

Ernest endured the hatred from the students and despite threats and requests aimed at preventing him from graduating; he became the first African-American to graduate from Little Rock Central High School. Ernest’s accomplishment did in fact give the world one more example that African-American’s were just as intelligent as white people were. As Ernest reminisced about how far integration had come, he said that,” What we had accomplished had a huge impact on the progress of integration, but we are nowhere near the point we should be. I’ll continue to do everything I can to promote integration to this day.”

Thoughts of her skin and family consume Emma Lou, even at her high school graduation. She is the only "Negro pupil in the entire

The article is about a Honduran girl named Aleichia Williams, and she talks about having a “race crisis” when she had moved from New York City to North Carolina. (Huffington Post, Aleichia Williams) While she was in middle school, she was made aware for the first time of racial profiling based on first impressions. With racial profiling, people can also make stereotypical inferences of what a specific race likes when it comes to food, music, etc. Since people can occasionally label someone from first glance of what race they think certain people are; it can be seen as labeling someone based on the color of their skin.

Harriet did not expect to have such a hard time living with White students. She assumed that since she attended a school in a White neighborhood and interacted with White people in high school, that the experience would be the same at Cornell. What she did not take into account were the cultural differences that emerge when living in the same environment. The experience for her was unpleasant:

Juliana has put in countless hours of her own time to find internship, job, and research opportunities for me and so many other undergraduate students. Being a part of an established ACS chapter has opened so many doors to all of us, and Juliana deserves so much of the credit. By starting this chapter, her influence will continue to benefit young chemists (or anyone who joins the club) for years to come. This is what makes Juliana stand out against so many other educators. Her hard work will give undergraduate chemists a better educational experience even after she graduates. What’s truly special is that she does this with no expectation of reward. Juliana gives her time selflessly, because she wants to see every undergraduate she connects succeed in their schooling, and eventual career.

The article wants to express that color is it’s on entity. Race is not always the issue. The complexion of an individual’s skin determines their acceptability. This “acceptability” causes inequality amongst the black community. Individuals with lighter skin tones are given opportunities that individuals of a darker tone are omitted from. Employers may not discriminate when it comes to race but the might when it comes to the appearance of an applicant.

Engineering major Ethan Hernandez, who is of Latino and Caucasian descent, is hard to miss when walking through campus. His red hair and dark eyes are a reflection of his mixed ethnicities. Hernandez believes his background has helped him become more accepting of other ethnicities. “Diversity breeds tolerance,” he said. “I think my background lets me see more easily through racial

One identity should not influence one’s future goals and expectations. Every individual should have the opportunity for a bright and successful future, and one’s skin color nor race should affect the chances of this possibility. In Maryam Laura Moazedi’s article, “Your Skin Color Shouldn’t Dictate Your Future” she portrayed a photo of three newborn babies, lying next to each other, possibly in a hospital. All three are wearing white diapers but only the middle child’s diaper is hidden beneath a layer of thick clothing. The two babies on the opposite sides are very pale skinned and have a bit of light brown hair. The child lying on the right has a blue and yellow toy car and a white rattle placed next to him. These two white babies entered the world