SOCI 3422 Blog

In the past, Natives were placed in reservations, but if you look at today, there are still reservations. I have family that stay on a reservation in Tacoma, WA. In a way it is good (learning of traditions and feeling acknowledged) but the bad part is most of my cousins and others that stay there do not leave once they are older. I know they are not restricted to stay like in the past, but in some sense, it feels like a modern approach of it. In order to stay on these "reservations", they must be registered to the gov. as Native Americans (certain percentage). I'm not sure about the other reservations but I do feel that it's a way of keeping all of one kind together (excluded from the cities).

If placing Natives in reservations is the result of taking the land, then why make reservations for Hispanics who were here before the English? I agree with the statement that they have Natives at the bottom. They treat any "registered" Native differently than the rest of the ethnic groups. Sad, because most of Southerners, Westerners and Mid Westerners are decedents of one or more Native American tribe.

This is a class, I would recommend every student should consider taking. It is very interesting, with lectures consisting of Cultural History, and other important issues that we as a society face today. Such issues include stereotyping, and covert discrimination.

Til this day I still don't understand why we have to give our race or ethnicity on everything - test, work applications, surveys. What is the importance of that? Is that factor suppose to affect how well you do or how you answer certain questions? Another thing I've noticed lately is that there's a question whether or not you're Hispanic. Then, they go on to ask your race. Has anyone else seen that?

According to our text, there is no such thing as "race." We know race exist in our country because according to the Census report we are classified by race and when job searching there is a space for one to specify race. It would be of good moral ethics if, our country was built on equality for all people and not race.

I have a question? Do 'pure' institutions exist or is this an ideal? What I mean by pure institution is one that doesn't discriminate, institutionize, and/or segregate any group of persons. It's seems to me that we are trying to reach for perfection/purity without ever achieving it. Does such a group exist?

We have a great and interesting teacher.

Class has been very interesting for me. My group is working on Jewish-Americans and their contributions to our country have been many.

Hey what did we go over in class today?

http://articlequicksearch.memphis.edu:8249/iii/mfrpro-umem/loadSearchPageCAS.do?searchpage=simple&searchtype=simple&accountid=umem&accountpassword=umem

_Use this link in case you need it. My group's ethnicity is Italians, and I am doing the first question, so I just found a couple articles about why they immigrated, etc. . . Use your U of M ID, and password to access the database in the event you haven't done so before.

I found a lot of articles under the Academic onFile database (U of Memphis Library). Hopefully, that helps someone who is stuck with journal articles.

Does anyone know which atricle handouts are we reading for test 1?

I made an inquiry at the U of M library, if there were any journals on site. I was informed that all journals are found in the U of M library database.

This class is interesting to me as well. No, I only founds books in the library. However, I did find several journals on the U of M library site. I am sure they have journals on site, we will need to inquire where they are located.

Did anyone elses group have a problem with finding journals for their topic?

I personally thought class was interesting today, Im excited about working with my group and coming up witha amazing presentation.

Hello, I was trying to find it on the syllabus but I couldn't. How many times are we supposer to blog for each test? Also is it extra credit? Thanks
Ashley