Through the Eyes of the Other

We will be looking into the gap between immigrant groups and their American-born children in terms of generation, culture, values, and goals to see the effects of this gap on the children’s identity construction and their ability to assimilate into mainstream American society. Just as there is segmented assimilation between immigrant groups of different national origin, there is also segmented assimilation between an immigrant group and the children they are raising in America.  Everyone experiences integration differently based off of group factors and critical sites. Racial stratification also creates obstacles for racial groups, especially immigrants. It is essential to recognize these mechanisms to better understand immigrant group values and identity within American society.

Members: Sharon Cortez, Geleen Abenoja, Christine Nguyen, Estefany Ramos

Ignorance or Intolerance: Experiencing Whiteness

Our goal is to create a short video that breaks down the definition of whiteness according to how people experience it. We’ll be focusing on the UP campus, but will be drawing from external research to ground a series of interviews. By identifying whiteness and challenging its invisibility, we hope to bring awareness to how whiteness influences UP’s racial climate. We hope that through awareness, we can start a discussion and empower people to identify how whiteness influences the institutions and behaviors of those at UP, and possibly challenge injustices that scrutiny reveals. Discrimination or prejudice that is invisible can be the most powerful, because it’s difficult to identify. It’s important to name and understand whiteness on our campus so injustices are confronted rather than perpetuated.

Members: Tori Pinto, Melissa Hager, Nastacia Voisin, Monique Woodward

Children in Education

Education is a universal symbol of power. Through learning, one is told that one can achieve anything. Through education, skill, and interests, people are placed into careers, which provide means for their livelihood. Children dream of their careers from an early age, but societal pressures alter these dreams. In this presentation, data was collected from three groups of students. First, a Portland public 3rd grade class, second an after school program for minorities, and lastly, college educated students. All students were asked what they wanted to be when they grew up, and the young students even drew a picture. No matter the background, children have similar educational aspirations, but through the process of education, these aspirations change.

 

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Homelessness in St. Johns

 

Here is a video showing homelessness in the St. John’s area and includes topics such as police brutality.  I hope to show that homelessness is an issue even in a location so near to campus.  We are advocating for the organization: Home Forward, which is explained in Holly’s portion of our presentation.

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The topic for our research was homelessness in Portland. Home Forward is a local organization that supplies affordable housing for people facing financial difficulty, disabilities, and mental illnesses. Their buildings grant homeless individuals access to shelter, education, and a supportive community. I have created a photo essay to visually represent the way affordable housing can work to combat a culture of poverty. Seen in the pictures are areas of poverty, home forward housing, and then the schools and community centers provided by Home Forward.

Soc 333- Homelessness and Home Forward

Diversity and the Issue of Normative Thinking – People of Portland

Our group wanted to focus the inclusive perspective which was introduced in a paper by Anderson and Collins called “Why Race, Class, and Gender Still Matter”.  The inclusion perspective helps to equalize the importance of every single experience.  It brings light to the connections each group has to the next, making experiences less exclusive and foreign.  We took this idea and decided to help the people in this city share their experiences and stories.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-HjrgY0rVQ

Stop and Frisk

Have you ever been stopped and frisk by the police?

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In New York City, a neighborhood collaborated with academics, students, community leaders to produce research on how young Black and Brown men are impacted by the Stop and Frisk policy of the NYPD and here’s what they came up with.

Stop and Frisk in the South Bronx