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Marianne Delatorre 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 […] ViewSpike lee’s film “Do the Right Thing” was a brilliant movie that tied all the course themes of this class together. Some course themes include gentrification, police brutality, segregation, etc. Spike Lee draws the black spatial imaginary for the audience showing the very realities of what it means to live in a vibrant, diverse “hood”, but be co…[Read more]
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Marianne Delatorre posted a new activity comment 6 years, 4 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 […] ViewThis week’s readings made me think the idea of “American benevolence”, a doctrine used to rationalize U.S. empirical interventions as “humanitarian” and emphasize “liberation”. This term I recall from reading several works surrounding critical refugee studies was utilized during the Vietnam War to justify the influx of southeast Asian refugee…[Read more]
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Marianne Delatorre 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 […] ViewReading this week’s articles reminded me of what’s going on in my hometown, National City. A few months ago, ICE raided a home, took undocumented parents away from their four children, and then deported them. This left the oldest child, a 19 year old college student, to care for his younger siblings. As Trump’s policies came into effect, my small…[Read more]
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Marianne Delatorre 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 […] ViewIn Ngai’s “The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 and the Reconstruction of Race in Immigration Law”, she underscores how immigration acts written in the early twentieth century, such as the national origins act (1924), drew the contemporary racial landscape in which race relations became prominent in American society. In other words, law reified race into…[Read more]
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Marianne Delatorre 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 […] ViewBoth subject matter in Solnit’s “Death by gentrification: the killing that shamed San Francisco” and LeDuff’s “What Killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones?” reminded me of how policed communities of color are. Yesterday, we watched “The Fall of I-Hotel” in my ethnic studies class remembering how urban “renewal” in San Francisco had evicted first gener…[Read more]
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Marianne Delatorre 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 […] ViewSan Diego is segregated along racial and ethnic lines, as Adrian Florido reports in his article entitled “How Segregation Defined San Diego’s Neighborhoods”. The truth is San Diego likes to advertise itself as a diverse city, but does not like the reality of it being a diverse city. Florido depicts this well through his interview with Jewel Hoppe…[Read more]
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Marianne Delatorre 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 […] ViewIn Massey’s “The Construction of the [Black] Ghetto”, he conceptualizes the making of the black ghetto as explicit and permanent. Massey provides a racial history to educate the reader on how black people have been historically spatialized and violently racialized to preserve and protect whiteness. Massey explains black people were (and still…[Read more]
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Marianne Delatorre posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
In reply to: Nadeen Kharputly edited the blog post Week 1 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 […] ViewNot many know that San Diego country is home to the second largest Filipino population in the U.S. National City is a Filipinotown founded on institutionalized policies that (dis)placed Filipinos from downtown San Diego (modern-day gaslamp quarter) and meant to racially segregate them. Yen Le Espiritu’s Homebound Filipino describes this well in w…[Read more]
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Marianne Delatorre posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
In reply to: Nadeen Kharputly edited the blog post Week 1 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 think I should end with something more impactful: Chinatowns became home.
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Marianne Delatorre joined the group Ethnic Diversity and the City 6 years, 6 months ago