Category Archives: Uncategorized

When I was in my freshman year of college, I experienced post-traumatic stress for the first time. It shouldn’t have happened. There wasn’t a reason for it to happen, but it did. He never touched me and he never hurt me physically, he never even technically did anything that could be called abuse. Maybe IContinue reading “Blog #7: How I Resist”

Lynette Adkins uses her YouTube video “Being Black at a PWI” to start a conversation surrounding the intersectionality and the pressures put upon the black community, specifically in being asked to be an advocate for their entire identity group. Here, Lynette Adkins tackles this project of interviewing black students at University of Texas as aContinue reading “Blog Post #6: Whiteness? On My College Campus? It’s More Likely Than You Think.”

In Martinez’s text “Critical Race Theory Counterstory as Allegory: A RhetoricalTrope to Raise Awareness About Arizona’s Ban on Ethnic Studies,” she highlights the way in which people can become undermined by using the allegory of a woman named Rosette Benitez. Rosette Benitez is an esteemed professor and a “pioneer in the field of Biomedical Engineering,”Continue reading “A Response to Critical Race Theory: What Does Narrative Tell Us About Resistance?”

In Min-Zhan Lu’s text “From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle,” Lu describes her experiences growing up in China in a family that spoke predominantly English at home. From an early age, she was taught by her family that English was what made her father successful. She therefore began to equate her ability to speakContinue reading “#4 The Discourse of Home: A Reaction to Min-Zhan Lu”

I feel that my heritage language is fairly similar to the way that I represent myself in positions where I have to be more professional. I think that the main difference depends on the audience I have. Sometimes, even in a professional setting, especially at my job as a peer Writing Tutor, I will findContinue reading “Blog Post #3 What is Your Heritage Language?”

Zitkala-sa’s narrative acts to subvert the ideas represented in Pratt’s text because she underscores the ignorance and lack of understanding that the white people had towards herself and her people. While Pratt totes the idea that whiteness is equal to being civilized, she constructs a story that paints a very different image. In her passageContinue reading “Zitkala-sa on the Carlisle School”

In Paolo Freire’s first chapter of his book Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Freire discusses the important differences between privilege and oppression and where the lines between the two exist. This chapter explores the power dynamics of the oppressor and the oppressed, highlighting the fact that often the oppressor does not realize they are creating aContinue reading “Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed: The Separation of Identity and Oppression”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”