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Allison Vo posted a new activity comment 6 years, 4 months ago
In reply to: Nadeen Kharputly edited the blog post Week 10 responses in the group Ethnic Diversity and the City: Hi everyone, Please reply to this thread with your responses (150-300 words) to this week’s r […] ViewAs I was skimming this week’s responses, I noticed a recurring sentiment condemning the use of violence as a means for transformative social change. But let me ask this – who are the truly violent ones? What constitutes violence? Who has the power to execute violence? Who has the institutional power and material resources to define violence and i…[Read more]
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Allison Vo commented on the post, Week 9 responses, on the site 6 years, 4 months ago
In reply to: Nadeen Kharputly wrote a new post on the site Ethnic Diversity in the City Hi everyone, Please reply to this thread with your responses (150-300 words) to this week’s readings. Some guidelines for f […] ViewIt was not until college that I acquired fragments of my family’s immigration history. I have always been a refugee, from the womb to my birth to my everyday existence. And now the year is 2017, and there continues to be a constant stream of refugees flowing into the U.S. and any other countries that will “accept” their resettlement – playi…[Read more]
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Allison Vo posted a new activity comment 6 years, 5 months ago
In reply to: Nadeen Kharputly edited the blog post Week 8 responses in the group Ethnic Diversity and the City: Hi everyone, Please reply to this thread with your responses (150-300 words) to this week’s readings. Some g […] ViewThis week’s readings on sanctuary cities was really informative and reminded me of my own hometown. I live in the city of Garden Grove, but have moved around many other cities in Orange County before my parents bought our home in ‘08. These cities are small neighboring cities stitched together by large immigrant populations – Vietnamese, Lat…[Read more]
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Allison Vo commented on the post, Week 7 responses, on the site 6 years, 5 months ago
In reply to: Nadeen Kharputly wrote a new post on the site Ethnic Diversity in the City Hi everyone, Please reply to this thread with your responses (150-300 words) to this week’s readings. Some guidelines for f […] ViewThe LA Time’s article and nativist sentiment expressed by Sam Herrera, outreach director of Stop the Magnet, reminded me of the contradictions and binaries surrounding immigration. First, although I can’t jump to major conclusions, the last name “Herrera” is non-Anglo, which makes me question their ethnic heritage. Compounding on the convers…[Read more]
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Allison Vo commented on the post, Week 4 responses, on the site 6 years, 6 months ago
In reply to: Nadeen Kharputly wrote a new post on the site Ethnic Diversity in the City Hi everyone, Please reply to this thread with your responses (150-300 words) to this week’s readings. Some guidelines for f […] ViewThe topic of gentrification is always personal and complex to me, as it re-presents cities as communities and unravels the layers of individuals and their stories of ongoing resistance, survival and everyday livelihood. Within the scope of a year, I have observed the myriad forms of gentrification invade/pervade aspects of (my/our) community…[Read more]
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Allison Vo commented on the post, Week 3 responses, on the site 6 years, 6 months ago
In reply to: Nadeen Kharputly wrote a new post on the site Ethnic Diversity in the City Hi everyone, Please reply to this thread with your responses (150-300 words) to this week’s readings. Some guidelines for f […] ViewTa-Nehisi Coates’s article underlines the capitalist values inherent in U.S citizenship. When the “emblem of American citizenship” is codified and revered in homeownership, the consequences of value materializes in property values determining life chances and outcomes. When African Americans and Black Americans are denied access to homeo…[Read more]
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Allison Vo commented on the post, Week 2 responses, on the site 6 years, 6 months ago
In reply to: Nadeen Kharputly wrote a new post on the site Ethnic Diversity in the City Hi everyone, Please reply to this thread with your responses (150-300 words) to this week’s readings. Some guidelines for f […] ViewScott Kurashige’s chapter elucidates the relationships between U.S. militarism/expansionism and the physical structurings of everyday life in the context of sub/urbanization. Discourses of (racial) impurity, uncleanliness, and disease pervade the U.S racial landscape, resulting in both covert and overt consequences for communities of color s…[Read more]
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Allison Vo commented on the post, Week 1 responses, on the site 6 years, 6 months ago
In reply to: Nadeen Kharputly wrote a new post on the site Ethnic Diversity in the City Hi everyone, Please reply to this thread with your responses (150-300 words) to this week’s readings. Some guidelines for f […] ViewLipsitz’s article underscores the racial-spatial purity projects enacted to construct and uphold the superiority of a whiteness that relies on the simultaneous construction and demonization of blackness. To exist in a “white spatial imaginary” requires the simultaneous (de)construction of a “black spatial imaginary” because the measureme…[Read more]
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Allison Vo joined the group Ethnic Diversity and the City 6 years, 6 months ago