Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, we see that police violence against marginalized people is one of the problems that has become an ever-present aspect of our lives. The murder of Radio Raheem by police rings not only with past murders by police but also with the present conditions in the country, especially the recent murders where innocent Black p…[Read more]

This week’s readings on refugees were very enlightening. Before this week’s readings, I must admit that I didn’t completely understand the difference between an immigrant and a refugee. Upon learning more, I can’t help but feel as if there is something deeply wrong with this country if people are willing to ban countries from seeking refuge here…[Read more]

Sanctuary cities seemed like a great thing for counties, and in the case of California, states to become but in actuality, reading the articles for this week, I realized that they essentially put a target in these cities. In Los Angeles, there was an ICE raid a couple weeks back where over 100 people were arrested by ICE agents without cause. This…[Read more]

This week’s readings on immigration hit close to home than any of the other readings before. As a daughter of immigrants, hearing the rhetoric of Donald Trump during his 2016 Presidential campaign, it pained me to know that at least half of the country agreed with him and his “facts” about immigrants considering that my parents and every other…[Read more]

This week’s readings surrounded the topic of gentrification. Gentrification as a whole can be clearly seen throughout the country and in many other places around the world. As I’ve stated in some of my previous responses, I have personally seen the changes in Los Angeles due to gentrification efforts and seen what it has done to communities lik…[Read more]

Ajali Enjeti’s “Ghosts of White People Past: Witnessing White Flight from an Asian Ethnoburb” tells us about how previously white communities have become more diverse due to the various new cultures that can now be found with Johns Creek, Georgia being used as an example. When talking about how the influx of a certain community can cause white…[Read more]

This week’s topic was segregation and Massey and Denton’s chapter “The Construction of the Ghetto” from American Apartheid gives us a more concrete explanation of the role that those in power, whether it be the government and/or white Americans, had in the creation of ghettos in the United States after the 1900s. Prior to “the Great Migration…[Read more]

This week’s readings were very interesting in terms that some of the topics covered in them I could clearly see in my hometown of Los Angeles. When the term “segregated” is mentioned in “The Most Diverse Cities Are The Most Segregated”, I didn’t imagine that it could be applied to East Los Angeles until I learned more about what they meant. When…[Read more]