Critical Reflection #3 — Racism Here in Marin

While reading this week’s two readings Another Kind of Public Education “Social Blackness, Honorary Whiteness, and All Points in Between” by Collins and “The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an ‘Aberration’” by Alexander, many points stated reminded…

The Mask of American Color-Blindness

At the beginning of Another Kind of Public Education, I was suspicious of Collins’ use of the term “color-blind” to describe our society…

Color-Blind Racism

What? Both Collins and Alexander discuss issues that are relevant to my community partner and issues that interest me in general. I am an aide in a Canal Alliance English learning classroom. Canal Alliance has set up a program to take adults from the Canal and give them the opportunity to learn…

Undercover Racism

In the readings, “Another Kind of Public Education, ‘Social Blackness, Honorary Whiteness’”, by Patricia Collins and “The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an Aberration”, by Michelle Alexander, they both discuss the racism that exists among society and how it continues to exist. Within Collins’…

Routine

In the police station, especially working in administrating cases or as a badged officer, one can become desensitized to the type of duties they perform, as they start to follow a routine without questioning it. Whether that is an investigation, arresting the criminal, or logging in the case into city records…

Reducing Racial Disparities

What?

Throughout the article “The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an ‘Aberration,” Michelle Alexander highlights structural inequity and uses incarceration practices in the United States as an example. Alexander recognizes that “A third of black men had…

Mass Incarceration

A topic of interest to me is the point said by Alexander in “The Injustice of this Moment Is Not an ‘Aberration.’” Before delving into her main point, she says, “Obama claimed that his administration was focused on deporting: ‘Felons, not families. Criminals, not children. Gang members, not a…

Education and Intersecting Structural Injustices

What?

In The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an ‘Aberration’, Alexander focuses on the parallels and intersections of mass incarceration and the criminalization of immigration (crimmigration) and mass deportation. She…

Paving the Path

This week’s reading was centered around the topic of how racism affects people of color in their everyday life, such as housing and educational opportunities, because of the structure that society is built on which favors Whites.