Category: race
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aphasic narrative in Spanglish
Independent Project Paper January 28, 2005 Yongho Kim In this paper I argue that the recently premiered film Spanglish, a documentary about the “integration” of a Mexican single mother into white U.S. society through the eyes of her daughter, represents a form of an essentialist reading of their social texts that can be analyzed using…
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Contested Bodies: Immigrants as a Singularity in Minnesota's Political Terrain
Contested Bodies: Immigrants as a Singularity in Minnesota’s Political Terrain Minnesota Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Internship Paper January 27, 2004 Yongho Kim The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride of 2003 was a national movement aimed at claiming immigrants’ rights in the legislative branches of the United States. It gathered a critical mass of religious, labor, progressive…
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a decommodification agenda by capturing state power?
so after reading Patrick Bond’s Strategies for Social Justice Movements from Southern Africa to the United States fpif.org/papers/0501movements_body.html Bond is thinking about circular state measures that eventually weaken local communities, and talks about fundamental change that doesn’t rely on state power, when he writes: …South Africa’s independent left fully understands the need to transcend national-scale…
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Protected: MNFR second journal entry
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Class Notes. movements. Introduction
class notes, Freedom Movements January 24, 2005 -SNVC (?) we are reading M.L.King and N.Mandela, not because they are everything that their respective movements represented, but in order to get an initial idea of what the main body of texts “representative” in public discourse of the movements is about. That way it is possible to…
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RE: Permission to translate White Nationalism and the Multiracial Left
From: Yongho Kim To: Kil-Ja Kim, Kenyon Farrow, Mellon Minority Fellows Undegraduate Fellowship at Macalester Date: Mon Dec 6, 2004 9:15 am Subject: RE: Fwd: Permission to translate White Nationalism and the Multiracial Left Ms. Kim and Mr. Farrow, thanks for letting me post your article “White Nationalism and the Multiracial Left” on the web.…
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Protected: MNFR summary on september part one
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[scrap] For this GOP member, usual labels won't fit; Dennis Sanders is used to shattering stereotypes as a gay, black Republican
But it would be dangerous for the gay community as a whole to put all our eggs in one basket. To me, equal rights should not be a partisan issue.”
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Beginning again, from refugee to Citizen
BEGINNING AGAIN: FROM REFUGEE TO CITIZEN Keynote Presentation by Professor Ahmed I. Samatar. “Somalis in America,” conference held at Macalester College, July 15-17, 2004. I. Introduction: II. Why People Decamp A.Push. B. Pull. C. Terms. III.Waves and Models IV.The Somali Moment A.Tacabir vs. Qaxootin: B.Issues: V.The Dialectic of Critical Adaptation A.English Language B.Racism C.Somali and…
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Making connections with the audience: professionalism and alienation
Yongho Kim Labor’s Story through Music May 10, 2004. (due May 7th – three days late ) Making connections with the audience: professionalism and alienation In reflecting on the production of “Forgotten”, I want to focus on the difference between the performance at the Union Hall and the one at Macalester in the level of…
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imagined conversation between Benjamin Filene and Ruth Glasser on "authenticity"
Yongho Kim Labor’s Story through Music May 10, 2004 (due April 15 – 3 weeks late) [DJ plays “We shall not be moved” by the Almanac Singers] Glasser: I like how the band uses the banjo, which gives it a more folk feel. Were the instruments made in the east coast before being sold to…
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Coalition-making in The Fuse’s Seattle 1919
Yongho Kim Labor’s Story through Music February 25, 2004 Coalition-making in The Fuse’s Seattle 1919: Class Solidarity and Divisiveness, and Incorporation of the Other in post-World War I Unionism. Seattle 1919 addresses issues of class solidarity frequently present in the newly emerging U.S. unionism and attempts to unite workers from different race, gender, and skill…
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Ejercicio Etnográfico: Consumo de la cultura latina popular en los EEUU
Theorizing U.S. Latina/o Popular Culture. Prof. María Elena Cepeda Macalester College , Febrero 11, 2004 Yongho Kim Ejercicio Etnográfico #1: Consumo de la cultura latina popular en los Estados Unidos Metodología: Mis preguntas podrían categorizarse en tres: Las dos primeras tenían el fin de aprender más de cerca la vida diaria de los entrevistados y…
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[Comment] Blues people: negro music in white america
Yongho Kim Telling Labor’s Story through Music February 10, 2004 Baraka points out in chapter 2 that West African music provided a baseline for the music sung by African-Americans who came to the United States through slavery. Two main tenets of these West African roots are the multilingualism of its lyrics and the narrow albeit…
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Integration Paper on Race and Ethnicity
Introduction to Sociology Professor Sharon Preves Due by December 9th Turned in by December 16th (7 days late) The U.S. banned the discrimination based on race, sex or ethnicity, through the Civil Rights Act, almost 40 years ago in 1964. However, more subtle, permeating forms of racism are prevalent in today’s U.S. society according to…