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Tag: Resistance
Opinion
âWe Didnât Cross The Border, The Border Crossed Us:â The Importance Of Ethnic Studies
I once heard a story about a man that needed to go North from Mexico to the United States in the 1940s. At the time, Guerrero, Mexico was depleted of resources and there were no jobs for the people. It spread throughout the city that there was work in the United States through a temporary workers program. The man knew this was his chance to go North so he went to where all the laborers were gathering to leave.
July 16, 2019
Women
âI Just Said That!â
Have you ever had that moment when you were in a meeting and proposed an idea for consideration to solve a problem? In an instance, you are abruptly interrupted. Your colleague regurgitated your idea as if it was their own. As you look around the table for a connection of affirmation, in your head you are thinking, âI just said that!â
April 15, 2019
African-American
Resistance Strategies for Black Graduate Students in Higher Education
Being a Black woman at a predominantly White institution (PWI), I experience simultaneously racialized and gendered encounters that leave me feeling anxious and incensed. The social justice spaces that I found in graduate school help me to navigate challenging experiences and to speak truth to power. I share this brief composition as a testament to the strategies of resistance that my peers, colleagues, faculty and I use to persist in higher education.
April 4, 2019
African-American
Celebrating #NastyWomen of Color
I walked a mile from campus to a church where my local polling place to vote was, like many United States citizens did throughout the nation on November 6, 2018. However, this midterm election seemed to have a different energy as âunexpectedâ candidates throughout the nation emerged in response to the political conditions they found themselves in after the election of Trump. Who were these âunexpectedâ candidates, women of color!
November 12, 2018
Opinion
Why We Celebrate
Graduation season brings me tremendous joy. I love seeing the various photos, video clips, and stories of graduates who have overcome tremendous odds. Unfortunately, this yearâs commencement season has been marked by institutional efforts to police how proud graduates mark the occasion.
May 20, 2018
Latinx
Rodriguez: Resistance or Permanent State of Insurrection?
People of Mexican descent that live in this country, live in a permanent state of dehumanization and thus also part of a permanent state of insurrection that, technically, can never end.
April 16, 2017
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