Readings: Beverly Tatum, “The Complexity of Identity”…
One story that caught my attention was in the introduction. It was the story of Jerry. Garcia-Hernandex describes the way they both grew up similarly: “we were both raised in the Texas borderlands…We were born into a community that is almost entirely Mexican. We are both Spanish speakers whose…
What? Events from the past regarding racial violence are very similar to today’s events. These events can’t be separated because they fit into the same category of racial inequity. Times may be different but society’s actions remain the same. In Just Mercy, Stevenson describes his meetings with…
After listening to the podcast, “The Myth that Busing Failed”, I was intrigued by the idea of busing. Not once in my life had I ever heard about this concept to try and desegregate African American and white students. The myth that Hannah-Jones challenges is that busing failed…
In this week’s reading Amnesty or Abolition: Felons, illegals, and the case for a new abolition movement by Kelly Lytle Hernandez, she discusses the connection between America’s long history of immigration policies to the discrimination and continuing alienation of immigrants by…
I think one of the main points of Garcia-Hernandez’s that stood out the most was the innate disparity implemented between a child born in the United States and a child brought over. Both have no control over their existence, no understanding of crime, no sense of politics, and no voice of…
For this week’s critical reflection, we were assigned to watch Parts 1–4 of the College Behind Bars documentary by PBS. The documentary follows groups of prisoners located in various New York prisons who are enrolled in an educational program such as the Bard Prison Initiative…
