Summary Of On The Run By Alice Goffman

Research today has limits and standards to protect study participants and researchers alike, all in an attempt to facilitate ethical data collection for reliable results. A universal research body, such as the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at UVM, governs these set values. However, early anthropological research often deviated from ethical standards and broke basic research rights. Such is the case with Zora Hurston’s compilation of collected stories in Mules and Men. After returning to her hometown in Florida, she begins listening to stories from locals, building a cultural interpretation of the locals. Continuing her studies, she travels to New Orleans to pursue research in Hoodoo, a sacred and protected practice. Her unethical approach breaches IRB standards regarding her methods of safety, consent, and confidentiality, violating the UVM Institutional Review Board’s human subjects protection guidelines.

Over the course of this project, I was able to grow an understanding of the importance of listening and remaining silent. As someone who enjoys articulating their every thought, I find myself immersed in conversation, not the environment around me. With the ethnography project, I had to retitle myself as the “quiet girl,” and creepily lurk around the gym to gather information on the dynamics of the Little Bob. Listening is as important as speaking. I believe that in obtaining this skill, it creates better writers. Listening allowed me to notice the music in the background that you have never gave a thought to before, it allowed me to notice the overall “vibe” of the place, and it allowed me to understand the dynamics and personalities of the people inside the gym.

Nathan faced ethical questions in approaching this research project using an undercover method of observation: Did she lie to people? Was permission given by the university? How to handle the Research Board? Could she record her findings or conversations since she did not disclose her identity? Can an anthropologist really go “undercover”? These are a few of the concerns and criticisms the author faced during this project.

Informed consent is and was at the time of Scheper-Hughes’ fieldwork an important aspect of ethical research. Scheper-Hughes was criticized by Irish anthropologists for not obtaining the full and informed consent of her participants before conducting her research, and this criticism is warranted (Callahan 311:1979). It is clear from the villagers’ reactions when she returned to Ballybran some years later that this is in fact true. Scheper-Hughes herself remarked that many felt betrayed by her book, and that they initially had no idea what she would publish (Scheper-Hughes 2000:148). Schrag argues that part of informed consent should be to communicate honestly the research objectives of the ethnographer, which

In On The Run, Alice Goffman focuses on a particular group of young Black men living in a poor neighborhood, struggling to live a “good” and “fair” life. These boys from 6th street are segregated from resources that would be found in more economically advanced neighborhoods. A “resource” that they do run into more than often is over policing in their neighborhood. As they are disproportionately targeted for arrest to fill quotas, this constant behavior and events deemed as a norm (even little children play a game about cops catching and being overly aggressive to Black boys), hinders their process at advancing within American society. Systematic oppression against a minority group slows and puts racial tension progress at a standstill, as they are continued victims of larger forces. What truly works against them once locked up and released, is that they were not given a chance based on race, now it becomes based on race plus their criminal history. People in such situations are left with one option, in order for them to survive and provide for their families, they must do it through illegal activity. Locking people up and returning then into the same environment which had limited resources does nothing to solve larger powers at play. Laws and documents may exist that describe an “equal” and “fair” society, but without action, words seem to hold less value. The Declaration of Independence, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, are both documents meant to symbolize

Imagine a trip to one of the most beautiful mountain sceneries in the world. Now imagine that this scenic trip also includes sporting entertainment and historic landmarks. Welcome to the mountains of the Pyrenees. There is absolutely nothing to lose and possibly everything to gain by booking a summer vacation to this realm of marvelous and beautiful land. The Pyrenees is an exquisite range of mountains located in southwestern Europe. This intensely beautiful mountain range is the barrier dividing Spain and France. It is approximately 21,380 square miles and contains parts of twelve French and Spanish provinces. Discover the beautiful significance of the Pyrenees National Park. Witness the historical thrilling events of the Tour de France as it passes through the Pyrenees route.

The people on this earth were born to adapt and show with nature and spread their unique culture with one another. In the short story, “Everyday Use,” Alice Walker illustrates each character with unique personalities. Walker as an activist of the movement, wrote this story eventually to prove the differences between cultural boundaries. We can also see those cultural boundaries affecting the family’s relationship. Changing your name and adapting into a new culture doesn’t necessarily make you the origin towards that culture. As we tie the author and Dee together, we can also see a huge difference between these two people.

Me: As I performed the posture test on myself I already knew that I would have proper posture. Due to the fact that when I was younger, I looked in the mirror and noticed that I had a slouchy posture. I had (Lordosis) and an anterior pelvic tilt, which made me look awful from a side point of view. I wanted to fix my posture and learned that I had weak abdominal muscles and tight hamstrings along with weak gluteus maximus muscles. As I learned how to fix my problem, I began doing exercises for those muscles for flexibility and strength gains. For my exercises in detail I began standing for a long period of time and would flex my gluteus maximus muscles and keep them tight for a period of time to strengthen them which would be for a few minutes. This fixed the slight curve in my lower back. The next step I performed was the same as with my gluteus maximus muscles but for my abs which helped keep a good posture naturally without thinking about my posture deviations and how to fix them. I could now begin to stand naturally with a good posture. The last step I did was stand against a wall with my back and neck flat against the wall and I would press my tongue against the top of my mouth to

In Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”, Walker juxtaposes two different daughters in their quest for a cultural identity. The narrator, their mother, talks about how each daughter is different; Dee went off to college and became well-educated, contrary to their impoverished and low status as black women in the south. Meanwhile, Maggie isn’t nearly as educated as Dee is, but is still literate. The entire story centers around Dee’s visit with her new Muslim significant other. The story’s climax is when Dee wants to take two special quilts back home, but those quilts are for Maggie. These precious quilts comprise their culture. Henceforth, Dee does not deserve to take the quilts with her because she has decided to take on a culture that varies significantly from her own and she is already used to getting what she wants.

Once the song was fully memorized I practiced it with the recording accompaniment. I learned when to come in from the piano intro and how long to wait after the different phrases and sections. There were no dynamics for the voice part, so I added them in where I saw fit based on the phrases and lyrics, and was highly influenced by a recording sung by Cecilia Bartoli at the Berliner Philharmoniker with Daniel Barenboim.

Traditional Bengali bangles with a western outfit will add my cultural elements in the everyday life. The addition of cultural element in everyday life. The addition of cultural element in everyday life can show how much value one has for it. Few people add cultural elements in everyday life just to show off, while others use cultural elements to add more value to it. In Everyday Use by Alice Walker has characters that value their cultures and heritage in different ways. Alice Walker chooses Everyday use as the title of her story because the story deals with how each character value culture in everyday life.

Fassin considers ethnography to be, “about entering and communicating the experience of men and women in a given context: their way of apprehending the world, of considering their place in society and their relations with others, of justifying their beliefs and actions. It is an attempt to… explore another universe, often initially foreign but progressively becoming more familiar”(Fassin, XX). He sticks true to his believes in Enforcing Order, since he conducts his ethnographic research by having first person interactions with both those in the side of the law as well as those that are posed to be criminals. Fassin is able to provide quality accounts of how each of the sides in the story sees themselves, and how they view their relationships with others. By getting different points

When the ethnographic observation is conducted through covert observation, the data collected must allow the inadvertent participants to remain anonymous by creating fake names and avoiding faces when taking pictures. This will protect the results of the current study as well as my reputation for future studies.

Sarah “Saartje” Baartman stands as an historic symbol of the racial injustices and sexual exploitation of African American women. Baartman is a female from South Africa whose body shape became a fascination in western society. Her ample hips and large buttocks were not idealized, but seen as savage, deviant, and apelike. In Europe, during the 19th century, she became an object that was exhibited in “freak” shows under the name of Hottentot Venus. Hottentot was the face of the inhumane performances that abrogated her basic human rights. Not only was Baartman used for entertainment purposes, but she also became a subject for scientific studies. Sarah Baartman represents the history of inhumane treatment

1 The poem "Women", written by Alice Walker, discusses the hardships of her mother and other women during the time of slavery and how they overcame these struggles for their families to have better lives. She not only shows us how strong these women were, but also how loving and caring they were. In this poem, Alice Walker uses many literary devices including metaphors and imagery. Throughout lines 12-18, Alice implicates women as tough generals in the army, leading armies of soldiers into battle.