This week’s discussion on refugees has been pretty interesting. It’s a topic that I have only really heard about whether by news, social media, or just in passing. I have really been given the opportunity to have a though discussion about the subject, and the class gave really good pointers on the issues. Thinking about why I have never really bee…[Read more]

I think the piece “How Segregation Defined San Diego Neighborhoods” particularly stood out to me the most being that we go to school in La Jolla, a sub city of San Diego. Living a rich, white conservation part of San Diego, you can see how the effects of race and segregation have sculpted the city. In terms of the articles phrase “cruel reali…[Read more]

The American Apartheid article relates to a novel that I has just stumbled upon called “Black Metropolis” by St. Clair Drake and Horace Clayton. Another peer and I were discussing how a lot of the current civil unrest in Chicago was brought upon by previous generations of socioeconomic inequalities. When black people started migrating in large…[Read more]