Cultural Autobiography part 2

Taking this class changed my story since the beginning of this course. When I first started this course the beginning if the semester I was not really fond of other races. I was only used to being around people of color and people of my own descent. This part of me was not done by choice; it was my parent’s choice to enroll me into African American immersion based schools, which lead to that. But taking this course changed that. I’ve never been surrounded on a regular basis by a group of diverse individuals. I’ve learned that if I had the option I would have definitely preferred a diverse campus/environment instead of my parent’s decision of African American immersion schools. This course gave me the opportunity to develop a wider perspective and way of looking and thinking of other races. Before this class I’ve never thought that any color skin made one better than the other of have I ever had negative feelings about another race not only because I’m not a racist, but because I’ve never had to really interact with them. During the course of this semester I’ve gotten many different insights and thoughts of other races that I probably would have never realized or found out if I never took this class. At the end of the day I’m proud that I declared my minor of ethnic studies.

The islamerica event was one that I attended. It also placed a change on my cultural autobiography in a few ways. The first was presenting me with a great amount of knowledge and a greater feeling of what other people have and are struggling with today. It’s like now that I’ve experienced all that I have this semester I now have a heart and a feeling for other races than my own.

 

 

Minority Inequalities Blog #5

The research that I am presenting in my final research paper is dealing with minority women in the workplace. While conducting my research I ran across an article titled Minority Women face double jeopardy of workplace harassment. In summary this article was a study done at the University of Toronto. The researchers were interested in two theories of harassment: additive and multiplicative. The study consisted of surveying workers at three male dominated manufacturing plants and three female dominated social service organizations. In conclusion the author proved that minority women are harassed more than others. This article applies to my research because as I stated before my topic is minority women in the workforce and how they are perceived, valued and rewarded. I hope to use this research to continue with my findings that there are gender as well as race inequalities on the workforce against African American women.