Category Archives: Uncategorized

When I first read the final project assignment, I had a lot of thinking to do. Many issues are important to me, but which one could I talk about in narrative story form stemming from my own experiences with these issues? I couldn’t discuss any of them because not one issue directly and forcefully impactsContinue reading “Blog Post 7: Initial Project Thoughts”

In Lynette Adkins’ YouTube video, “Being Black at a PWI | UT,” she interviews different black students that attend the University of Texas about their experiences finding community on campus. What we know and what we assume about Lynette as the author of the piece are different, though. In the video, Lynette doesn’t once stateContinue reading “Blog Post 6: Being Black at a PWI”

Aja Martinez’s allegory tells a different resistance story than the ones we have read up to this point. Besides the fact that she’s resistance-writing fictionally, the main player is assimilationist. Rosette Benitez doesn’t fit the mold of “oppressed speaking out against the oppressor.” In fact, she almost becomes the oppressor by trying to breakout fromContinue reading “Blog Post 5: Whose Dream is “American?””

But I was unable to acknowledge, grasp, or grapple with what I was experiencing, for both my parents and my teachers had suggested that, if I were a good student, such interference would and should not take place. Minzhan Lu, From Silence to Words, pg. 443 This quote, sourced from deep within the text, encompassesContinue reading “Blog Post 4: Home & School Discourse Conflict”

I grew up very privileged. I went to a $30,000 per year private school in Central Jersey for all 15 years of my pre-college education and was expected not to do anything but succeed and go on to college. With that in mind, I started studying the English language at age three through reading assignmentsContinue reading “Blog Post 3: My English Education & Me”

When looking at Zitkala-Sa’s “The School Days of an Indian Girl” and Richard Pratt’s “Kill the Indian, Save the Man,” the common theme connecting the two pieces is civility vs. incivility. The core difference is who is considered civilized and who is considered uncivilized in each. I view the two narratives linearly, wherein the peoplesContinue reading “Zitkala-Sa vs. Pratt: Blog Post 2”

In these two passages, Freire explores the idea of what I’m calling “oppression acceptance and assimilation,” which combines two different phases of the oppressed’s experience with their oppressors. At the beginning of the passage, Freire claims, “But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselvesContinue reading “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Chapter 1, Pages 45-46”