In the book "Chinese Girl in the Ghetto" pages 111 and 107 sound very sarcastic. On page 111 when she got into a fistfight she kept thinking how this was beneath her, how she has a 4.0 GPA and fighting is not what smart Chinese people do. She sounds very conceited if you ask me. Then she was wondering why no one came to defend her. She answered her own question on page 107 on how Chinese people prefer not to be a part of confrontation yet she wonders where her friends are when the fight happens. It sounded like she was making excuses for her friends when she said "maybe they were not close or maybe they chose to stay away." Sounds like she was in denial. She is ashamed that she is being treated this way.

Seems to me Ying Ma is definitely interested in the immigration laws happening all in the United States. She has a very strong opinion about the cost of amnesty and legal immigration. Any thing political she writes about. She is not afraid to speak her mind from what i can see. however i don't really agree with some of the posts that she wrote. For example with the article she put for giving people a reason not to come to America cause it's to dangerous. I think she's just giving an excuse for people not to come to America. I can see that she tries to tie everything to immigration. She'll bring up the gun law and connect it with immigration by saying something like this :"they will do this and not this" type of thing. I am interested to see what she has to say though to get another perspective

What I find interesting about untouchables is how Bahka behavior is affected by this racial formation created through a caste sytem. A society full of division and unequality, where there is an idea of an inferior and superior race, class, and social status.

This paradign created by this racial and social caste system has Bahka wishing to be an Englishmen and enduring punishment by being an "Untouchable". "The grass is always greener on the other side right"? He has been through so much you would think he would grow up to be cold and soulless like some of his peers but he isn't. When the kid got hit with the rock and he was bleeding asking for help everyone turned the other cheek except for Bahka. Why is that? Why is it also even after this good deed he was ridicueled by his parents for it?

We see that the idea of racial formation is being forced on bahka by his own parents. This is what colonization at work. The motives of divide and conquer is at play here with the lower class choosing to expand the idea of who is superior within their own class

This cluster has definitely been an eye opener for me on race and culture. I now have these questions in my head like does the idea of slavery still hang around in today's society? Are we slaves to society through our jobs? I realize race is alot more complicated than I thought it was. Tannenbaun, which was my favorite read so far, has taught me that. I now pay attention to the news and what goes on around the world with a different perspective. I even have conversations about these things with my mom now. But with this knowledge I still feel sadness because i still see suffering in todays society because of their so called race.
Another eye opener is how I feel governments don't tell their society everything and lie to their people. Will U.S.A take back it's american dream? Guess we'll have to wait and see.

This idea that I'm living in a paradign and I didn't even know it is a bit overwhelming but now my new goal is to find a way out of it. A paradigm can sometimes feel like someone has already decided your future and how you are gonna live it. I don't want that to be me. Whatever I do I know I'm gonna make it. But anyway these classes have taught me aa lot and want to continue to learn more and raise more question

We a graph thats shows statistics of the ammont of Anti-islamic hate crimes commited between the years on 1995 to 2008. It shows the hate crimes were very low till 2001 when it increased drastically. then  between 2002 and 2008 it lovered bhut still was hight than it was before 2001. In this graph we can conclude in 2001 there was alot of anti-islamic hate crime due to 9/11 terrorist attack. We can understand to an extent why people would feel a certain way about about islamic people however it does not justify the commitment of hate crimes against innocent people. What gets me fustrated is people expect the violence to stop with more violence. One of the problems i have with this source I would like to know what was the percentages of who committed these anti- islamic hate crimes.

Jasmine Huerta

Jasmines blog "A Mixed Race" was very interesting and very true. Jasmine claims is Tannenbaum, no matter how racist he is approves "black" and "white" people having children. It is the only way the "Negros" ever belong in a white mans society. This book was written around the time of the civil war so that is to be expected from Tannenbaum. But Now I wonder in our generation will these stereotypes, not just in the black community but for every race, ever go away. Will there be a day where all people won't look at each other by skin color or by race. Just look at each other as people. what do you think?
I also agree that Tannenbaum was very descriptive on how he feels about the mixing of "Whites" and "Blacks". It felt like as our teacher would say that he was a bit of a "creep" while writing this. He fantasizes about a Black women who owns her own slaves. It's a bit "raunchy" which was how i described it in my blog.
However Jasmine also claims "When black women had this choice, it was a downfall either way whether working in the fields and possibly getting raped or live in a house with a white man just satisfy his every sexual desire and serve him in anything else" (Huerta 2nd Paragraph) is a interesting. For some women they had no choice but to be the mistress or it was hard labor. This is what Tannenbaum approves? Now matter how they have children wether its love or rape the ends justify the means.
"A Mixed Race"is a good blog but can use a bit more evidence. You definitely got a good claim should use this claim in your first essay but use more of the book to support. "The Biological transmutation from one race toward another, the new type of beauty, the new race was being evolved every" (tannenbaum 121) is a great quote to use for this claim. all of page 121 and on is great evidence for your claim

The end of the book has been interesting. We see the author believes slavery is an idea that will never fade until we can look a "Black" judge and only look at him as a judge. when skin color does not matter on how you look at a person. Until that day the affect of slavery will linger. Then he goes a bit "raunchy" at the end. He claims the only way a black person can belong in a white mans society is if the parents is both black and white. So he approves them having sex wether it's from rape or love cause the ends justify the means. It's a very weird way on how he brings up this subject. I am not going to lie it was a bit uncomfortable. This book showed me so many different perspectives on slavery. Even though he is still rascist.