What the first quote is saying is being Asain American Wu feels that he is eather stared at as through he is being watched to see if he causes any troble. He is also looked through, meaning people do not even acknowledge that he is in the room.
If people are watching him they will not beleve anything that he says, so he has no control on being able to defend himselfs, and the same goes with the people who iqunare him, if they do not even seeing him they will not listen to what he has to say because to them he is an inadamant object, in the room for decoration.
I some times feel as throught I am just watching what is going on around me and feeling as throught no one can see me. This happens when I am in a room with people having a convosation, and I am not able to contribute anything, or the people i am with do not listen to ewhat i am saying.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Comic Book Cover
The Comic that I chose was Captain Marvel Adventures The cover shows a huge Captain Marvel making a fist in the air like he is getting ready to hit the mob of Japanese people, running away from him. Right under this arm that is in the air making a fist, there is a caption that reads "Capt. Marvel Swats the Japs!" This suggests that Captain Marvel does not like the Japanese people.
In the Takaki chapter 10, Takaki talks about how the Japanese came to America to make more money, to have a better life and have children. When they came here the men had to work in the Field and were treated less that human.
When the men went further inland they were treated in the same manner. The children that were born in America grew up and tried to find a place to live, they were told that they could not live in a certain neighborhood and that they should go back to their country. The people who were told this did not understand what the white Americans were talking about, because these people had lived in the United States all their lives. The immigrants, who did want to go back to their home country, ended up staying in the United States because their children did not want to go to a foreign country. The parents stayed in the United States with their children because they did not want to leave their children and their grand children.
This comic book cover shows how after Pearl Harbor and even a while before Pearl Harbor occurred the Japanese Americans were not treated equal. This shows how the white people living in the United States wanted to run the Japanese Americans out of the country. After Pearl Harbor the white people in the United States believed all Japanese people living in the United States were spies, sending information to their fellow terriers. We can see this today with Iraqis and the Iranians, due to the attacks on 9/11 and because if the war, in Iraq.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Yellow
1. "As a member of a minority group everywhere in my country expect among family or thought the self- conscious effort to find other Asian Americans, I alternate between being conspicuous and vanishing, being stared at or looked through."
2.The article Yellow, is about a man who is of Asian American decent. He feels like he is stuck in the middle of the race discrimination. Meaning he knows that he is not black but he is also not white. He said that he stopped riding the bus, the day he got on and saw the other minorities sitting in the back, he did not know where he should sit because he was not black, but if he sat with the whites, they would get mad because he was not white but somewhere in the middle.
3. I wounder what would have happened if he sat some where in the middle of the bus? Would the blacks get mad, would the whites get mad, or both? Wu did not know the answer to this so he did not ride the bus, so that neither race would get upset by him.
4. I thought it was interesting that he could have sat where ever he wanted to being stuck in the middle, but I Wonder if the bus driver would have known? If I would have been put in that situation I would have sat in the middle of the bus one time and than I think I would have stopped riding the bus too, because it would make me uncomfortable not knowing where to sit on the bus and risking making someone mad.
2.The article Yellow, is about a man who is of Asian American decent. He feels like he is stuck in the middle of the race discrimination. Meaning he knows that he is not black but he is also not white. He said that he stopped riding the bus, the day he got on and saw the other minorities sitting in the back, he did not know where he should sit because he was not black, but if he sat with the whites, they would get mad because he was not white but somewhere in the middle.
3. I wounder what would have happened if he sat some where in the middle of the bus? Would the blacks get mad, would the whites get mad, or both? Wu did not know the answer to this so he did not ride the bus, so that neither race would get upset by him.
4. I thought it was interesting that he could have sat where ever he wanted to being stuck in the middle, but I Wonder if the bus driver would have known? If I would have been put in that situation I would have sat in the middle of the bus one time and than I think I would have stopped riding the bus too, because it would make me uncomfortable not knowing where to sit on the bus and risking making someone mad.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Pacific Crossings
1. The chapter Pacific Crossings by Takaki talks about Japanese immigrants coming to America to make money, and how that dream changed over the years.
2. The Pacific Crossings talk about mailed order brides, who are women who parents pick their husbands living in America. The families want the women to be able to go to America and make money so they will have a better life. The women end up working on plantations with their husbands. The men are in charge of Field work, and the women are in charge of Field work in the early morning, house work at 6am and then back to the Field, and late at night they do more house work. The women tend to start their day at 4:30am and don't end the day until around midnight- 1am. The immigrants do this for 55 cents a day if they are women and men were paid 78 cents per day. Also the immigrants were treated as animals; one person said that they were given a number, instead of their name. So one day they went on strike to get a higher wage, eight hour days, insurance and paid maternity leave and better treatment. Later the planters claimed a victory and discreetly increased wages by 50 percent. It seemed like things were working well for the immigrants, however the article says that the living conditions for the workers were very unsanitary. The workers who had children and soon made enough money to own their own land told their children to go to school so they would learn about freedom and equality, the declaration of independence. But the immigrants were still treated unfairly when it came to getting a home, and soon everything would change for the Japanese immigrants living in the US in 1941.
3. Why did the immigrants who left their homes not go back? Some of them did go back but most of them did not want to go back because they had children living the the US. The children did not want to go back to Japan because they were born in the US and felt that Japan was a foreign land because the US was their home. So if the kids did not want to go back to their homeland, the parents tended to stay because they wanted to be with their children and grand children.
4. At first I thought the immigrants were treated badly and in the middle of the article it seemed like things were changing and they were being treated fairly. I thought they were being treated badly because of Pearl Harbor. But then they were getting a higher wage, and land so I thought everything was okay. Until the Americans started to tell the immigrants who were born in the US to go back to their homeland, I was thinking okay how did they go from being treated badly to fairly, back to bad again. Then I thought maybe Pearl Harbor had occurred, but at the end it said that they were going to school and being taught about their culture, and their country. Teaching them about their Japanese American heritage. "However their hope to be both Japanese and American would be violently shattered on a December morning in 1941" After this historic event anyone living the US who was Japanese, was thought as being a spy and not to be trusted, so they were put into interment camps.
2. The Pacific Crossings talk about mailed order brides, who are women who parents pick their husbands living in America. The families want the women to be able to go to America and make money so they will have a better life. The women end up working on plantations with their husbands. The men are in charge of Field work, and the women are in charge of Field work in the early morning, house work at 6am and then back to the Field, and late at night they do more house work. The women tend to start their day at 4:30am and don't end the day until around midnight- 1am. The immigrants do this for 55 cents a day if they are women and men were paid 78 cents per day. Also the immigrants were treated as animals; one person said that they were given a number, instead of their name. So one day they went on strike to get a higher wage, eight hour days, insurance and paid maternity leave and better treatment. Later the planters claimed a victory and discreetly increased wages by 50 percent. It seemed like things were working well for the immigrants, however the article says that the living conditions for the workers were very unsanitary. The workers who had children and soon made enough money to own their own land told their children to go to school so they would learn about freedom and equality, the declaration of independence. But the immigrants were still treated unfairly when it came to getting a home, and soon everything would change for the Japanese immigrants living in the US in 1941.
3. Why did the immigrants who left their homes not go back? Some of them did go back but most of them did not want to go back because they had children living the the US. The children did not want to go back to Japan because they were born in the US and felt that Japan was a foreign land because the US was their home. So if the kids did not want to go back to their homeland, the parents tended to stay because they wanted to be with their children and grand children.
4. At first I thought the immigrants were treated badly and in the middle of the article it seemed like things were changing and they were being treated fairly. I thought they were being treated badly because of Pearl Harbor. But then they were getting a higher wage, and land so I thought everything was okay. Until the Americans started to tell the immigrants who were born in the US to go back to their homeland, I was thinking okay how did they go from being treated badly to fairly, back to bad again. Then I thought maybe Pearl Harbor had occurred, but at the end it said that they were going to school and being taught about their culture, and their country. Teaching them about their Japanese American heritage. "However their hope to be both Japanese and American would be violently shattered on a December morning in 1941" After this historic event anyone living the US who was Japanese, was thought as being a spy and not to be trusted, so they were put into interment camps.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
How Jews became white folks
1. The article How Jews Became White Folks and what that says about race in America is about how after world war 2 the veterans who served in the war was suppose to receive money and get preferential hiring. However this was not free from discrimination.
2. In this article Brodkin talks about how the money and help that the veterans were getting from their GI bill did not give their fair share to all the veterans. The people who benefited most were the white males. The women and American Americans received little or no money for serving in the armed forces. Therefore, the only people who really got anything for serving their country disproportionately male, Euro origin GIs (p44).
3. If Affirmative action only helped white males, then why do people have such hard feeling about it today? People do not like that people of different ethnicity gets the advantage in being hired before them for the same job and having the same skills because they feel it is discrimination. However if we look back to the article we see that the white people were the ones who got all of the advantages back around the end of world war 2, so the government is tiring to turn the tables and give the people of another ethnicity a chance to get the things that were promised to them back then that they never received.
4. This was an article that was able to explain affirmative action to me a way that was easy to understand. Before reading this I just thought it had something to do with giving a group of people a fair chance at something and no one else. I knew that it was a way to pay people back but for what reason I did not know. After reading this I have learned that Affirmative action is a way to level the playing Field for the people who served in the arm forces and were not compensated for their time.
2. In this article Brodkin talks about how the money and help that the veterans were getting from their GI bill did not give their fair share to all the veterans. The people who benefited most were the white males. The women and American Americans received little or no money for serving in the armed forces. Therefore, the only people who really got anything for serving their country disproportionately male, Euro origin GIs (p44).
3. If Affirmative action only helped white males, then why do people have such hard feeling about it today? People do not like that people of different ethnicity gets the advantage in being hired before them for the same job and having the same skills because they feel it is discrimination. However if we look back to the article we see that the white people were the ones who got all of the advantages back around the end of world war 2, so the government is tiring to turn the tables and give the people of another ethnicity a chance to get the things that were promised to them back then that they never received.
4. This was an article that was able to explain affirmative action to me a way that was easy to understand. Before reading this I just thought it had something to do with giving a group of people a fair chance at something and no one else. I knew that it was a way to pay people back but for what reason I did not know. After reading this I have learned that Affirmative action is a way to level the playing Field for the people who served in the arm forces and were not compensated for their time.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Slavery without submision
1. The article talks about how the slaves rebeled and runaway. The article mentions Harriet Tubman the women who was a runaway slave who helped other slaves go to Canada to be free.
2.The article had part of slaves journals that talked about how they were treated and why they acted the way they did. For example, one passage says " they say slaves are happy, because they laugh, and are merry. I have received two hundred lashes in a day, and had my feet in fetters, yet I would sing and dance and make others laugh to stay out of trouble."
3. How can you account for Harriet Tubman's success? In the article it tells how Tubman had escaped to the north and chose to help others escape. She did this by going back to the south and showing others the path to take to go north. Tubman also had others to help her do this, she would travel to the south carring a gun and told the slaves to go with her and be free or die, the slaves chose to go with her and her helpers in order to be free in the north.
4. As I was reading this I was thinking about how I learned about tubman in grade school and how she ran the runaway railroad. I thought it was just a path that she and others used to go north, to freedom. But as I read this it sounded like Tubman was driving a real train on a railroad, to transport slaves to the free land, also called the north. I like that I am learning more about what seemed like a good story in grade school, that now I can put detail into them, and have an idea of what occurred up to this big event. I was also glad to learn that slavery was abolished by the order of the government. I was under the impression that slavery existed because the government thought it was a good idea. I am glad to hear that the government was the one responsible for ending it.
2.The article had part of slaves journals that talked about how they were treated and why they acted the way they did. For example, one passage says " they say slaves are happy, because they laugh, and are merry. I have received two hundred lashes in a day, and had my feet in fetters, yet I would sing and dance and make others laugh to stay out of trouble."
3. How can you account for Harriet Tubman's success? In the article it tells how Tubman had escaped to the north and chose to help others escape. She did this by going back to the south and showing others the path to take to go north. Tubman also had others to help her do this, she would travel to the south carring a gun and told the slaves to go with her and be free or die, the slaves chose to go with her and her helpers in order to be free in the north.
4. As I was reading this I was thinking about how I learned about tubman in grade school and how she ran the runaway railroad. I thought it was just a path that she and others used to go north, to freedom. But as I read this it sounded like Tubman was driving a real train on a railroad, to transport slaves to the free land, also called the north. I like that I am learning more about what seemed like a good story in grade school, that now I can put detail into them, and have an idea of what occurred up to this big event. I was also glad to learn that slavery was abolished by the order of the government. I was under the impression that slavery existed because the government thought it was a good idea. I am glad to hear that the government was the one responsible for ending it.
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Kindred revised
1. The book Kindred by: Octavia Butler is a book about a woman sent back in time to save one of her distant relatives.
2. In kindred Dana the main character starts to have these panic attacks that send her unconcessis in modern times, but while she is unconcuess in her time she is sent to 1976. In this time people believe her to be a runaway slave. In which she feels that she has spent hours, days, and sometimes even weeks in 1976. As the book goes on we learn that she only is sent to 1976 when a little boy named Rufus, a son of a plantation owner is in trouble. Dana is sent here to save him from being beat from his father, and from being killed. Dana has to save this little boy and make sure nothing happens to him because she believes he is one of her distance ancestor.
3. How does the prologue set up the story? Why does Butler use such a device? What tone does the first sentence of the Prologue set for your reading of the novel? The prologue lets the reader know that something big is going to happen sometime later in the story. Butler uses this to draw the reader into the story so they will want to read on. The first sentence of the prologue makes the reader wonder what trip they went on. What happened to them?
4. When I first read the first sentence of the prologue I thought this was about a boy who may have lost his arm in a war. I was all of a sudden drawn into the book, wanting to know what happened to this person, what kind of trip they went in that they lost their arm. I feel that Butler did a very nice job of getting the readers attention and wanted them to read on to find out what happened.
2. In kindred Dana the main character starts to have these panic attacks that send her unconcessis in modern times, but while she is unconcuess in her time she is sent to 1976. In this time people believe her to be a runaway slave. In which she feels that she has spent hours, days, and sometimes even weeks in 1976. As the book goes on we learn that she only is sent to 1976 when a little boy named Rufus, a son of a plantation owner is in trouble. Dana is sent here to save him from being beat from his father, and from being killed. Dana has to save this little boy and make sure nothing happens to him because she believes he is one of her distance ancestor.
3. How does the prologue set up the story? Why does Butler use such a device? What tone does the first sentence of the Prologue set for your reading of the novel? The prologue lets the reader know that something big is going to happen sometime later in the story. Butler uses this to draw the reader into the story so they will want to read on. The first sentence of the prologue makes the reader wonder what trip they went on. What happened to them?
4. When I first read the first sentence of the prologue I thought this was about a boy who may have lost his arm in a war. I was all of a sudden drawn into the book, wanting to know what happened to this person, what kind of trip they went in that they lost their arm. I feel that Butler did a very nice job of getting the readers attention and wanted them to read on to find out what happened.
Monday, October 1, 2007
Kindred post one
From what I have read in Kindred, it is about a bout who got his arm stuck in the wall of his house. The police think that he was hurt by his friend Kevin, but the police do not believe that it was an accident.
the character who was hurt is now talking to their friend Kevin about how they had to convince the police that everything is okay and no one was trying to hurt anyone else.
I have not figured out the name of the main character who is telling the story, but it sounds like they there will be a thematic event later on in the book between Kevin and this other person. I would like to know what the police think happened between there two characters. After reading a few chapters of the book and also reading the back of the book it sounds like the person telling the story is a woman, and maybe this Kevin abused her and she is just covering for him so he will not hurt her again.
I do not know if I like this book yet. However it has gotten me a little hooked on what the story is between these two characters.
the character who was hurt is now talking to their friend Kevin about how they had to convince the police that everything is okay and no one was trying to hurt anyone else.
I have not figured out the name of the main character who is telling the story, but it sounds like they there will be a thematic event later on in the book between Kevin and this other person. I would like to know what the police think happened between there two characters. After reading a few chapters of the book and also reading the back of the book it sounds like the person telling the story is a woman, and maybe this Kevin abused her and she is just covering for him so he will not hurt her again.
I do not know if I like this book yet. However it has gotten me a little hooked on what the story is between these two characters.
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