The event, diversity on campus, brought up important points of treatment towards students of color at St. Olaf. Personally, I stand behind the movement, but disagree with the process in which they’re using. Despite this, I believe the event held an importance within our St. Olaf community in how we rally together and morally hold ourselves to a high standard. There were many things I enjoyed hearing at the event; however, my favorite was the idea of tokenism and its effects at St.Olaf College. I enjoyed the detail to your opinion on tokenism and the people who you referred to in the presentation are highly educated in the area of tokenism. Many of the students claimed to be tokens of the school, but I didn’t really receive a full perspective or idea as to what direct actions make them …show more content…
However, when a woman asked you if you felt like a token, I had no idea how you were going to respond. I thought your response was professional, yet hinted at some areas of improvement of where you may have felt tokened by the administration, specifically through your application process. Another thing I enjoyed about the presentation was the human interaction and conversations that came after the presentations. Though I didn’t agree with what everyone said, it’s important to let people feel heard. This helps everyone out because it allows people to hear others thoughts and opinions which helps reform or reaffirm their beliefs. I call it, progress through reforming or reaffirming individual beliefs. These conversations allow people to ask you questions about certain things at St. Olaf and lets them speak about their experiences at St.Olaf. As a white student attending St.Olaf, I don’t experience tokenism. Now, I believe there are forms of tokenism at
For my speaker critique, I went and listened to Tamber Bustance speak about “Unintentional Bias”. Bustance is the manager of Diversity Development Services at Grand Rapids Community College, who does most of her work with non-profit organizations. At Grand Rapids Community College, Bustance aims to educate students about diversity and prevent stereotyping. Before working at Grand Rapids Community College, Bustance graduated from Grand Valley State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications. Prior to working with non-profit organizations, Bustance worked as a television news producer. Overall, Tamber Bustance was completely qualified for speaking about “Unintentional Bias.”
Overall the conference was great but there was one con. There was a guy who was such a douche excuse my language, but just the way he carried himself had some things he said, for instance "I don't mind being a token black guy at a firm".
In the first presentation, I noticed an event called the Greensboro Sit-ins. This was a single event that sparked a nationwide movement and flood of support for the civil rights movement and the issue of business owners withholding service from those who were not white. On February 1st, 1960, 4 students of the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat at a whites-only lunch table, requested service, and were then denied and asked to leave. When they left, they went to tell campus leaders what had happened and as a result gained people that wanted to participate in the sit-in. It is said that “the next morning twenty-nine neatly dressed male and female [NCATSU] students sat at the Woolworth’s lunch counter,” the same counter where those first four students sat (NorthCarolinaHistory.org). After this happened, protests occurred each week and hundreds of students were showing up at Woolworth’s. Following this, more and more students from around the US were staging sit ins at segregated lunch counters as a form of non-violent protest against discrimination.
The race most focused in during the course was the African American race. Throughout the course we focused on segregation, educational inequalities, voting rights, housing rights, and affirmation action for African Americans. All of these topics show the discrimination of the African American race. We focused on the challenges confronting the US from 1400s to the 21st Century. Some of these challenges included race inequalities: structural, institutional, and individual. We talked about the interaction between race, gender, and class during the period of African American constitutional history. One topic was The Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King Jr., and how they have helped the progression the African American race. It was the 50th anniversary year of the March of Washington. At
My presentation consisted of 13 slides discussing a variety of topics: my background, my freshman year of high school, my thoughts on college as a high schooler, diversity, what colleges look for in potential students, how expensive college is, how i feel about college now as a freshman, high school regrets, and other advice. I answered various questions ranging from relationship advice to how intense my transition from high school to college was. During the session, which lasted an hour for each group, there was no teacher present, simply
The Civil Rights Symposium began with the Introductory Remarks from Dr. Christine Stanley. She gave thanks for all of the support that went into making this symposium possible and then she stated that the reason why we are here is because the Civil Rights Act did not resolve all of our racial problems. The first main speaker was Dr. Joe Feagin who talked about inequality fifty years after the Civil Rights Act. He talked about the length and depth of racial discrimination that we still face today and that the racism today is subtle and sneaky, but still very much there.
I really liked the presentation about sexuality in Cuba, Puerto Rico and The Dominican Republic. This gave me a better understanding on how people suffer when coming out and dealing with constant criticism in their country.
Newspaper headlines and public forums demand educational reform with growing frequency. Race-sensitive admissions policies are often at the center of these debates. For example, according to the Los Angeles Times on March 21, 2001, the Los Angeles Community College district trustees are scheduled to vote for a resolution to support the University of California’s move to reinstate affirmative action in its admissions policies. This reinstatement has visible student support as seen in the March 15, 2001 rallies at the UC Regent’s meeting in which over 1,000 supporters of affirmative action came out to voice their opinion. This activity closely follows two other perceived victories for affirmative action proponents when two recent court
Overall I think are presentation was good the reason why I think that is. Are presentation was about the apollo missions one through eleven and what each objective was for each mission. Each mission was an important role for nasa because they learned many things like the mistakes they made and the new things they discovered throughout the missions. It's fascinating how much they were able to achieve in a short period of time.
During my sophomore year of high school, news reports broke of "race wars" taking place at Brevard High. I am well aware of the fact that this place I call home is often riddled with complaints of racism, bigotry, and prejudice. While I have never personally experienced this injustice, I sympathize with those who have and hope wholeheartedly that genuine and real change takes place, allowing Brevard to shed that off-putting image in time.
On Wednesday, March 15, 2017, I attended the JMU Diversity Conference held at Festival. I attended the workshop titled, “Engaging With Black Lives Matter and Supporting Our Communities.” Originally, I was thinking this workshop was going to be a small group discussion of how to bring the movement Black Lives Matter into our JMU community. This was indeed the case, but there was also more to it. This discussion was led by three librarians, who work on displays that are put up around the two libraries. These displays usually have a topic that is based off of what is brought up as important to the committee. This specific time it was the movement “Black Lives Matter”, where the display read, “Understanding Black Lives Matter: This is not a
I will be observing a Hofstra University organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The intent of the NAACP Chapter at Hofstra University is to educate, uplift, and unify the students of Hofstra University and the surrounding community. They discuss issues surrounding the black community and bring about different ways to help alleviate the pressures the black community faces. A main issue facing the black community throughout the United States is police brutality and the exploitations of the innocent young, black men with the use of violence.
Racial diversity is something that is often discussed on college campuses. As a student who self-identifies as a minority in more ways than one I often feel like I have a pretty good understanding of the subject of racism and race. However, often times when these issue are discussed I learn something new; this was the case when reading the articles this week. This week’s articles examined the issue of race from different perspectives. This allowed me to re-examine the issue in a fuller manner; it also allowed me to question some of my own notions that I hadn’t really challenged before.
Both of these statements stunned me and made me question the systematic world of business. Another important note I had was the Malcolm X quote which stated, “Tokenism only benefits the few, not the masses. Distancing oneself from the community they exclude” (Malcolm X). Another important part was tokenism and diversity efforts. These are the four I picked up on. First, racists are the problem and we tend to make them out to have a particular face. Second, diversity as a debt. Third, Racism as paranoia. Fourth, minorities have an advantage. Seeing these things from time to time in my every day. I think the four are great because they are noticeable to people, affect themselves, and have well researched theories. You are my teacher and you were the speaker, so there were many similarities. One part in particular was when you mentioned the MTV video of colored people and saying microaggressions towards white people to show them what they’re experiencing. The clip was funny and it did prove some valuable points. Your mentioning of it fit in nicely with the conversation. Something I found intriguing were the students responses to if they feel tokened at St. Olaf. In their responses, many felt tokened. I had not put that much thought on if Tokenism exists at St. Olaf so I had never thought about it from that
I think the presentation “Scholarship as Feminist Engagement” was super interesting and I wish each presentation could have been each an hour because I would have liked to know more about the topics. It is amazing how you can take academic subjects and study the same type of subject like feminism in each of them. I think one of the things that stuck out to me was Dr. Nodulam’s presentation was when she was discussing sex positive. I believe that sex should not be something that is completely public, I think that is between the couple but I do believe that there should be some type of public awareness that sex is a thing and no one should be embarrassed talking about it. I think it was interesting when Dr. Nodulman was discussing how the store