From The Harvest Video Analysis

What I feel about Jose Angel’s presentation is that he was brave to share his story that is a common issue to face in America. This was nice book to be written and how many obstacles does he go through. The tenor of the presentation showed that it is right to step up to say your story. Even though he is still undocumented, he is still able to step up and show to the world that it takes effort to achieve one dream. He did not start off easy and had many challenges to face as well as receiving opportunities. His book has been written from diverse backgrounds, which makes the tone different because it was written from several locations, and how he was feeling at that time.

In the film Harvest of loneliness:Bracero program it increased my knowledge greatly. When I was able to listen and see how they really were affected by this. The process of how they were chosen, it was very upsetting to see that they were choosen as if they were animals. They way they were treated like slaves. They were unable to support their families when they worked 100x more than the people that were paying them. They came to the US thinking they would have a fresh life for themselves and their families.

The book Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States illustrates the fieldwork of the author Seth M. Holmes by explaining the myriad aspects of migrant workers’ lives in the U.S.—from the politics to the social environments to the physical body. By not only studying, but living, the lives of these migrant workers, Holmes brings the reader a view unseen by the vast majority and provides the opportunity for greater understanding through the intense details of his work. The voices of vastly different characters—real people—are captured and expounded on without judgment but with deep consideration for all factors that contribute to each person’s life, opinions, and knowledge. Ultimately, a picture of intersectionality is painted in the colors of migrants, mothers, fathers, children, doctors, soldiers, executives, the poor, the rich, and more.

As an individual who has witnessed family friends of immigrants that came to this country over 20 years ago in hope of a better future. I understand why so many immigrants are willing to cross a border so dangerous and treacherous to reach a country that is called the land of opportunities. What we call The Unites States of America the land of the free. An average of 2,700 illegal immigrants are willing to cross the border each day leaving there families and risking their own life's to cross to the US. Mostly in the news we tend to hear only the superficial fact but never the real facts or the stories of the capture immigrants. If we would just take time to listen to the real stories of what I called the unforgotten children and women. We

Despite the fact that animal crush videos are illegal, Stevens still participated in the unlawful selling of these videos which depicted animal abuse via the form of dogfighting.

On the one hand, the student from the first video argues that undocumented immigrants should give them path to be part in American society.

My overall impressions of this week's materials were both intriguing and disheartening. We invite and coax immigrants to a better life and continue to mistreat them. In the article by Franklin Odo, Holehole Bushi songs are sung by the Japanese immigrants that are “direct expressions from the immigrants, themselves” (2). Women expressed their stories of pain, sadness, and longing for Japan. As well as their mistreatment and hardships at the sugar plantations. In the video Canefield Songs, they talk about how their wages were a mere 35￠ and if they were prostitutes they’d make 1$. Their work was difficult the hours were long and strenuous. To this day we choose the cheap route by producing products in other countries.They're paid low wages, long hours, and work in poor conditions. We would rather a harm others in turn to profit more.

This article stuck out to me to hear & see the statistics and charts. This is sad that many of these people came here with the intentions to have a better life, and have to get

Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz’s, Labor and Legality is a book written on the Mexican immigrant network in the U.S. She centers it on the Lions, a group of Mexican men from Leon, Mexico that all share their lives and help explain the many networks and strategies that are used in order to excel and gain happiness. There have been many different sorts of misconceptions about immigrants, and in recent years about undocumented immigrants from Mexico. The U.S. has made a sort of war on illegal immigrants and has made it a seemingly high priority in the media and in politics. Therefore, many Americans have been mislead and ill-informed about the history of immigrants/undocumented immigrants. Gomberg-Muñoz’s Labor and Legality helps set us straight. She unveils undocumented immigrants for the people that they are instead of the criminals that the media leads many to believe. Although she doesn’t have a wide range of participants for her study, I believe that she addresses many of the misconceptions and just plain ignorance that American people have of people that are undocumented; why stereotypes are supported by the people themselves, why politicians include stronger illegal immigration laws, and everything in between. Many of her topics reveal a sort of colonialism that the U.S. practices on Mexico; the exploitation of undocumented peoples to the benefit of the U.S. through economics, hypocritical laws and campaigns, and the racist and prejudice consequences.

In this course we learned about many different types of oppression, from the time America was first “discovered” and the discoverers began oppressing the Indians, to slavery, to the oppression of the mentally handicapped, all the way to more “modern” times in schools were students are being oppressed.

Each of their stories showed me just how much I had been missing from reading about DACA. I have not personally talked to anyone who is directly or indirectly affected by DACA or its removal, so these stories are really the first true insight that I have had to the personal, rather than the political or economic side of the debate. I think these stories are extremely important to know, because not everything can be summed up in a few numbers or

Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, shares his life-long journey as an undocumented immigrant in his text, “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant.” As the title suggests, Vargas attempts to convey to his audience, who likely never has and never will experience anything similar to what he has, what it is like to live as an immigrant in the United States of America. Skillfully, Vargas details the perfect number of personal stories to reach the emotional side of his audience, which is anyone who is not an immigrant. Through the use of his personal accounts Vargas is able to effectively communicate that immigrants are humans too while simultaneously proving his credibility, as he has experience and a vast amount of knowledge

The reading this week also really resonated with me, especially the ones about minority women and feminists of colour. As a white person, I will never understand the difficulties that POC face nor can I speak on their issues, but I can use my privilege to help elevate their voices when possible. One thing that particularly caught my attention was the section by Kiran Ahuja about diversity in schools and community, in my hometown there is currently an ongoing case to desegregate a school, which I never would have thought would still be a problem, not only was my school fairly diverse but so were the neighbourhoods in our district. The thing is that not all communities are like this, some are segregated, either intentionally or not, and this

Intersectionality has truly opened my eyes in cases where there is a possibility where two systems of oppression can be working together to make life a struggle for a certain group or race. In the political world when someone feels that they are being mistreated or being taken advantage of they make their voice heard. They search for the correct people to help them in their situation and once in court and they feel that they have been mistreated for example racially and gender discrimination the question now becomes well which one is it? Gender or race? It cannot be both. Well, why can’t we choose both options each is a brick in the wall of oppression that everyone has faced at least once in their life. Not to generalize the fact that people face more walls in their life than others based on certain privileges from the type of skin, class, or the global power of wealth and how much it is used for ill intentions. Intersectionality creates lenses in seeing the “bricks” of the wall, seeing what each one stands for and what it does to us. However, it also shows us where it is weak and way for us as scholars to find the weak points and change our groups future where we will no longer fear to speak about the injustices we see every day and will be able to fight and give knowledge to our “enemy” as well for they could see their error as well.

What stood out to me was how many women are forced into Human Trafficking and how many little organizations are to help women in those situations. Annie Dieselberg has an organization in Thailand, where former prostitutes come in and try to forget their past by making then move forward with their lives. The Uzbeks have threatened her numerous times but continues to offer her services to help those women. In 21st Century Sex Slavery Dieselberg mentions, "These women do not know what they are getting themselves into, they can be murdered, ganged rape, and even abused.” Women end up going through a lot of other situations when being forced into sex slavery.