The article “Life is no Disneyland” immediately caught my attention, and it was a really interesting read and easy to follow. It also gave me some new interesting facts. For example, what the Dream Act was. I have never heard of that before. I was also quite shocked by the following line…
What? Drawing on and citing the article, discuss a few of the reasons that Hannah-Jones makes the following statement and how she evidences and supports this claim:
When reading “Life is No Disneyland,” Yunuen’s story discussed similar issues that immigrants that are a…
“I don’t have a criminal record and don’t wish anyone harm. I’m just a person trying to live. Why can’t I have the chance to make a living?” (Life Is No Disneyland, 113). This is a question that many undocumented immigrants grapple with every day. In this reading…
A big misconception about undocumented immigrants is that they are dangerous, illegal, and steal our jobs, bringing violence and crime to America. From my experience volunteering at Canal Alliance, I can pretty strongly say that these misconceptions are not true, and I have…
My structural issue I am researching is the stereotype that immigrants steal all of America’s good jobs. While there isn’t a whole lot of intersection between this root issue and the reading from this week, there are certainly many other themes…
Nikole Hannah-Jones highlights an important discrepancy in what people have called busing. She points out how people used the terming busing in order to try and argue that what they wanted was not about race, even though it very clearly was. Hannah-Jones illustrates how people tried to…
Hannah-Jones states, “The term ‘busing’ is a race-neutral euphemism that allows people to pretend white opposition was not about integration but simply about a desire for their children to attend neighborhood schools. But the fact is that American children have ridden buses to schools…
These were the top 10 stories published by Self, Community, & Ethical Action in October of 2019. You can also dive into daily archives for October of 2019 by using the calendar at the top of this page.