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TOMOKATSU MURAKAMI 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 […] ViewThe movie “Do The Right Thing” tells many racial things that exist in this world. The story is about Brooklyn how race plays a role there. Firstly, the movie starts friendly neighborhood which is African American families live in particular street in Brooklyn. On the street, there is one Pizza restaurant Italian American Owns. The restaurant…[Read more]
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TOMOKATSU MURAKAMI 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 […] ViewThis week’s topic is refugees, and the articles give us much information about refugees.
Some people have bad images of refugees, and they do not want refugees to come into their countries. According to the article “Even liberals can be refugee NIMBYs,” the author Tanvi Misra shows explain why some people have bad images of refugees is that they…[Read more] -
TOMOKATSU MURAKAMI 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 […] ViewIn this week’s readings, all the article talk about sanctuary cities, and they explain how the cities are related to people like undocumented people. In the article “How sanctuary cities work, and how Trump’s stalled executive order might affect them,” Darla Cameron introduce how undocumented people is deported. This is so familiar to me because…[Read more]
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TOMOKATSU MURAKAMI 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 the United States, the number of immigrant increases year by year. America has two long borders: one is between America and Mexico, and the other one is Between America and Canada. According to the article “How Houston has become the most diverse place in America?” approximately 1.5 million illegal immigrants from Mexico live in the United Sta…[Read more]
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TOMOKATSU MURAKAMI 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 […] ViewThrough this week’s theme “gentrification,” I learned how gentrification is related to the problem of race, especially. According to the article “What’s Happening In Baltimore Didn’t Just Start With Freddie Gray,” it introduces gentrification affects lives of African American communities in Baltimore. On the beginning of the article, there is…[Read more]
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TOMOKATSU MURAKAMI 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 […] ViewIn this week’s reading “How Segregation Defined San Diego’s Neighborhoods-voice of San Diego,” it explains the history of segregation in San Diego and introduces the story of one African American family. As I am majoring in USP, I should learn from the article how living places should be like and what we can do to solve the problem of…[Read more]
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TOMOKATSU MURAKAMI 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 the book “American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass,” Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton mentions that the history of ghetto in the United States. They mainly focus on ghetto with African American people and explain how they had been excluded by society. In the reading of last week, Chinatown is considered as ghetto;…[Read more]
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TOMOKATSU MURAKAMI 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 […] ViewIn this week’s reading “The Idea of Chinatown: The Power of Place and Institutional Practice in the Making of Racial Category,” the author Kay J. Anderson mentions two images of Chinatown; first one is not clean, and second one is that community has different morality. In my experience, I had stayed in Northern California for four years and have…[Read more]
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TOMOKATSU MURAKAMI joined the group Ethnic Diversity and the City 6 years, 6 months ago