The Common Core – Standardizing American Minds
The use of the Common Core and standardized testing in American education is doing a disservice to students as it does not adequately prepare them for the real world.
Posts created by students in SOC 101 during the Spring 2021 semester.
The use of the Common Core and standardized testing in American education is doing a disservice to students as it does not adequately prepare them for the real world.
To find contemporary slavery, one does not have to look far. It can be found right in the United States. The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, except as a form of punishment. When emancipation led to Southern farmers losing their slaves, there was an increased demand for cheap labor. The provision allowing slavery in cases of […]
As an art major with a concentration in oil painting and a Muslim woman of color, I can confidently say I have never seen art by or been taught about successful oil painters who share these identities. For an assignment in my advanced oil painting class, we had to recreate an oil painting by an […]
By Quincy Williams Anti-Asian discrimination is not a new issue or an isolated historical event, but rather a part of the American narrative. Stereotypes, whether negative or “positive,” like those depicting Asian Americans as a “model minority,” perpetuate fear or contempt toward the Asian American community. The timeline above, from the 1850s to the present […]
Growing up just outside of Boston and visiting the city frequently, the various ethnic sectors were always apparent to me: Southie had the Irish, the North End housed the Italians, Chinatown was home to the Chinese. These communities provide a sense of belonging to certain ethnicities who say they can embrace their culture. However, they […]
In 2004, transgender and intersex athletes were accepted into the Olympics— but not without public opposition and regulations. In 2015, The IOC (International Olympic Committee) and IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) set the following regulations for female Olympic athletes (Gleaves & Lehrbach 2016): 1. Legal documents of their female gender that cannot be changed […]
Anna O’Shea “The struggle of being caged like an animal 24/7 is enough. But with all the added conditions it’s unbearable. There seems like no escape from this.” –Jamil Hayes (currently incarcerated, letter circa American Prison Writing Archive, 2021) [Pictured above, collaged mask containing quotes from Jamil Hayes and other currently incarcerated people, cited from […]
By interviewing both female and male Air Force Veterans in the late 1980’s and early 1990s, I found that these first women assimilated in the masculine world of the military to rise up the ranks. They had to become “one of the boys.”
When you drink a cup of tea, have you ever thought about the story of the people and places involved in its production? Whether or not you have, the story of tea is likely much more complex than it seems. Tea production is surrounded with romanticized images of nature that ignore the colonial roots of […]
Construction on Syracuse’s stretch of I-81 started in 1959, and the project was widely lauded as an exciting opportunity to bolster the local economy; in reality, however, it decimated the 15th Ward, a historically Black neighborhood and initiated a period of “white flight” that would shape the city for generations.