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HEIDI EMMENEGGER posted a new activity comment 6 years, 7 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 […] ViewAlthough I love reading, and have enjoyed every article and chapter you have assigned us, a movie is able to stimulate more than one sense and I think evokes a more emotional and personal connection to the story. Visuals as well as audio were a huge part of “Do the Right Thing” by Spike Lee. There is also something about a primary source, alt…[Read more]
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HEIDI EMMENEGGER posted a new activity comment 6 years, 8 months ago
In reply to: Nadeen Kharputly edited the blog post Week 9 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 […] ViewI am very proud that San Diego takes in a lot of refugees, and up until this year I never had contact with any refugees. I am a volunteer homework coach at the local library near my house (Balboa Library) and now that I have been doing it for a few weeks, regular students have started coming in. There is a group of five or six 10th grade boys who…[Read more]
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HEIDI EMMENEGGER posted a new activity comment 6 years, 8 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 […] ViewI pride myself in staying moderately up to date with current events, not that Trump’s attacks on Sanctuary Cities was small news, but I was at least familiar with this idea of a sanctuary city going into the readings. I did not know however, as the first article by Darla Cameron explains, how it was that a city could refuse federal policy. But a…[Read more]
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HEIDI EMMENEGGER commented on the post, Week 7 responses, on the site 6 years, 8 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 […] ViewI really value our discussions in class because everyone has a personal story they are not afraid to share and I really believe this adds another dimension of understanding to what we learn in class. Immigration is something that touches everyone’s lives and if your family has somehow magically avoided any direct contact with an immigrant, A…[Read more]
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HEIDI EMMENEGGER posted a new activity comment 6 years, 9 months ago
In reply to: Nadeen Kharputly edited the blog post Week 4 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 […] ViewReading the articles this week, I was struck by the idea of gentrification as a modern term because affluent white people have been displacing residents and “rebuilding” the “deteriorating” areas since Europeans first stepped foot on the Americas. Did we not displace the Native Americans under the guise of renewal and rebuilding of what we deemed…[Read more]
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HEIDI EMMENEGGER commented on the post, Week 3 responses, on the site 6 years, 9 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 […] ViewI really enjoyed this piece because I felt like for the first time the article was offering a solution, no matter how impractical, to the unjust and oppressive treatment African Americans have been facing in the U.S. Comparing the suffering and later reparations of the Jews after the Holocaust to that of slaves in the U.S. is a very powerful…[Read more]
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HEIDI EMMENEGGER commented on the post, Week 2 responses, on the site 6 years, 9 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 […] ViewI absolutely loved this piece, mostly because I felt like I was learning about a part of our history I had never encountered before (which is insane because Massey and Denton cover a relatively large time period). I think that most high schools cover “American History” and talk about slavery–although it was brought up today that Texas decided to…[Read more]
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