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After reading “She Ran From the Cut…” by Jina Moore and “The Art of Social Change” by Kwame Anthony Appiah in BB Week 6, write a post about how conversation works to bring about social change in both cases. Consider both meanings of conversation that Appiah references (49); here’s a link to the definition that …
Choose one place in the text of “Preface” or “The New Civil Rights” where Yoshino uses a quote. Write a TRQAC paragraph in which you discuss why Yoshino choose to quote here and how he integrates the quote into his text. Your quote of Yoshino introducing and quoting will be Q for your paragraph. Kenji …
Appiah; “When we offer, judgments , after all, its rarely because we have applied well-thought-out principles to a set of facts and deduced an answer. Out efforts to justify what we have done — or what we plan to do – are typically made up after the event, rationalizations of what we have decided intuitively.” …
Read and annotate whichever of the 4 readings–“Digging in the Trash,” “Strangers on a Plane,” “My Right-Wing Cousin,” or “The Day I Zipped My Lip”–you chose in your group. Write a blog post about the problem described in your reading and any solutions that are offered. One of the first problems described in Digging …
Write a dialogue with 4-5 of the comments from your peer or me on your paper. Directions in Week 4. Post in your blog either by copying/pasting or by using Add Media and uploading. Caralyn; I like this point, maybe you should add a paragraph explaining why we shouldn’t all blend in Camryn; I like …
Copy and paste or upload (using Add Media) your dialogue with Laila Lalami’s “What Does It Take to ‘Assimilate’ in America?” Lalami; What does assimilation mean these days? The word has its roots in the Latin ‘‘simulare,’’ meaning to make similar. Immigrants are expected, over an undefined period, to become like other Americans, a process …
My term: covering Yoshino talks about covering as “to tone down a disfavored identity to fit into the mainstream” (Barrios 539). Yoshino uses the strategy of defining the term first in his own words so we know what the term covering means to him when he mentions it throughout. Then once he defines the term …
