Posts created by students in SOC 101 during the Spring 2020 semester.
Soccer is deeply ingrained within European sports culture. Alongside this long-standing history of the sport is an often left undiscussed issue of racism. The popularity of soccer has inevitably led to high cases of racism by fans towards players, manifesting through in-person and online outlets. The lack of interest in these issues perpetuated by fans, […]
The Rise of Parramore, Florida: In Florida, during the late 1800s and early 1900s there was much explicit and implicit racism. During this period, Florida had the highest recorded lynchings of Black citzens per 100,000 of any state (Tameka 2005). White people also delimited where Black people could live. Parramore, a segregated Black community right […]
Between 2003 and 2013, the number of Chinese international students in the US rose from 61,765 to 274,439, a staggering 344% increase (Chao 2015:28). As studying abroad becomes increasingly attractive to Chinese students, cultural differences surrounding schooling continue to lead to numerous challenges for these students studying in the US. While some faculty members at […]
Nearly 3,000 students attend Thomas R. Proctor high school in Utica, NY, but only about 69% of students graduate each year. Even more concerning is that only about 50% of students of color in the school graduate. To combat this problem, the city of Utica has designed the Young Scholars Liberty Partnerships Program (YSLPP) to […]
While walking down the bleachers one afternoon in high school, I suddenly heard a group of students mockingly shout, “Coronavirus!” and chortle amongst themselves while pointing at me. As enraged as I felt, I walked away face flushed instead of confronting the band of jeering aggressors, driven by a fear of verbal altercation turning physical […]
One day while driving my brother and a few of his friends to our house, his friend Jerry, a black 16-year-old from Buffalo who has been to our house countless times since he was 12, looked at me and said “I feel like I’m not allowed to be here. No one looks like me…Shit is […]
Of the 895 students admitted to Stuyvesant, the best public high school in NYC, in 2019, seven students were Black. Despite being one of the most diverse cities in the world, New York City has the most segregated school system in the world. Education is one of the primary predictors of economic success. Simply earning […]
Unbeknownst to many Americans, many urban law enforcement agencies have begun to implement facial recognition surveillance systems that disproportionately target Black citizens. In 2016, for example, a unique surveillance program, known as “Project Green Light” was enacted in Detroit, Michigan, a predominantly Black city. A network of high-definition cameras was installed throughout the city that […]
Already alienated by the Canadian government and society due to a longstanding history of colonialism, forced assimilation, assault, and more, Canada’s Indigenous communities struggle to access a basic need: healthy, traditional, and affordable food (Haskell & Randall 2010). This situation is common throughout most Indigenous communities in the United States and Canada (Kuhnlein & Receveur […]
Why do so many veterans choose to handle detrimental forms of mental illness on their own when so many resources are available to them? Clint Van Winkle, for example, is a veteran who fought in the early 2000’s in Iraq for the Marines. After witnessing various traumatic events while on the front lines, he did […]
