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For my storytelling as a resistance project, I knew that there was a story that I wanted to share that was very impactful to me. For this project, I decided to focus on something close and personal to me which was health care in the United States. As a current healthcare worker, this is somethingContinue reading “Final Project Topic”

The article “What It’s Like Being Black at a Predominantly White School”  written by Stephanie Tate, explains her transition from high school to college and the challenges that she has faced in college being a person of color. Stephanie Tate is a young African American woman who at the time the article was written attendedContinue reading “#StoryTellingAsResistance”

In many of the texts we have read this semester, we have seen how the act of creating s narrative can be used to fight discrimination and injustice. Typically, these narratives tend to be personal narratives where someone recounts either their own story or the story of someone they knew dearly. These stories help toContinue reading “Story Telling As Resistance”

Min-Zhan’s story focuses on her struggle to transverse two different discourse communities that were at odds with one another. Min-Zhan grew up in China during a period of lots of political change. At home, her parents had taught her to speak english; which her family used as their primary language. At school, she was taughtContinue reading “From Silence to Words”

My home language is, in reality, only slightly different from what I would be writing for a class or for an institution. I say this because I speak “somewhat” academic English; the ways that I differ from true “academic” English come from my background of living in New Jersey and my mom’s German heritage. MyContinue reading “How Do We Deal With Language Discrimination?”

In his speech “Kill the Indian, Save the Man”, Richard Pratt states the goal of the Carlisle Boarding School and its ambition to help the native peoples of America. As shown through Pratt’s speech, it was common by many Americans to think of the native’s way of life as savage; as it was so muchContinue reading “Personal Narratives as Resistance”

One of the concepts that Paulo Freire examines in the Pedagogy of the Oppressed is how oppressed groups are supposed to deal with the knowledge of being oppressed once they are aware of their oppression. According to Freire, for the oppressed to be liberated from their oppression they must “perceive the reality of oppression asContinue reading “Defining Oppressed and Oppressor”