kybor1

[kybor1]

This is my family diagram. My mother has one sister who is divorced from her husband and they had two children, my first cousins. My father was married once before and had two boys, my half brothers. My mother’s Cousin (my aunt) is still currently married to her husband and they had two girls, my second cousins. Finally my mother and father had my older sister then me.

[kybor1]

Race: A flawed system of classification, with no biological basis, that uses certain physical characteristics to divide the human population into supposedly discrete groups. For this concept i chose this video accessible in the link below that gives an overview of how the classification of race in America came about throughout time.

https://youtu.be/No5ai6LZLFg

Colonialism: The practice by which a nation-state extends political, economic, and military power beyond its own borders over an extended period of time to secure access to raw materials, cheap labor, and markets in other countries or regions. For this concept I chose an article discussing colonialism and its affect on culture.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/topics/reference/colonialism/

Jim Crow: Laws implemented after the U.S Civil War to legally enforce segregation, particularly in the South, after the end of slavery. For this concept I chose a photo of a public vending machine that has writing on it stating it is only for the use of customers who are white.

Genotype: The inherited genetic factors that provide the framework for an organism’s physical form.

Phenotype:The way genes are expressed in an organisms physical form as a result of genotype interaction with environmental factors. For these two concepts I chose a video that breaks down the meaning and functions of both concepts.

https://youtu.be/I7tZPYhIQXw

White Supremacy: The belief that whites are biologically different from and superior to people of other races. For this concept I chose an article reflecting back on the origins of white supremacy.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/the-history-of-white-supremacy-in-america-205171/

[kybor1]

Ethnographic Field Work #4

Fear. By Kendrick Lamar

Verse 1: Power and Gender

“I beat yo' ass, keep talkin' back

I beat yo' ass, who bought you that?

You stole it, I beat yo' ass if you say that game is broken

I beat yo' ass if you jump on my couch

I beat yo' ass if you walk in this house with tears in your eyes

Runnin' from poopoo and 'prentice

Go back outside, I beat yo' ass, lil n****

That homework better be finished, I beat yo' ass

Yo' teachers better not be b****n' 'bout you in class

That pizza better not be wasted, you eat it all

That TV better not be loud if you got it on

Them Jordans better not get dirty when I just bought 'em

Better not hear 'bout you humpin' on Keisha's daughter

Better not hear you got caught up, I beat yo' ass

You better not run to your father, I beat yo' ass

You know my patience runnin' thin

I got beaucoup payments to make

County building's on my ass

Tryna take my food stamps away

I beat yo' ass if you tell them social workers he live here

I beat yo' ass if I beat yo' ass twice and you still here

Seven years old, think you run this house by yourself?

N****, you gon' fear me if you don't fear no one else”

In this Verse, through the words of his mother Kendrick reveals fear tactics she would use on him as a 7 year old child order to keep him on the right path. The use of the severe undertones such as “I’ll beat your ass” show how Kendricks mother uses the concept of fear to hold power over her son in order to properly influence him. The line “Better not hear 'bout you humpin' on Keisha's daughter Better not hear you got caught up, I beat yo' ass” exhibits the struggle Kendrick’s mother faces raising a straight Black male. She urges him to not get caught up fulfilling desires he might have sexually.

Verse 2: Dialect

“I'll prolly die anonymous, I'll prolly die with promises

I'll prolly die walkin' back home from the candy house

I'll prolly die because these colors are standin' out

I'll prolly die because I ain't know Demarcus was snitchin'

I'll prolly die at these house parties, f***in' with b*****

I'll prolly die from witnesses leavin' me falsed accused

I'll prolly die from thinkin' that me and your hood was cool

Or maybe die from pressin' the line, actin' too extra

Or maybe die because these smokers are more than desperate

I'll prolly die from one of these bats and blue badges

Body-slammed on black and white paint, my bones snappin'

Or maybe die from panic or die from bein' too lax

Or die from waitin' on it, die 'cause I'm movin' too fast

I'll prolly die tryna buy weed at the apartments

I'll prolly die tryna defuse two homies arguin'

I'll prolly die 'cause that's what you do when you're 17

All worries in a hurry, I wish I controlled things”

The Compton, California native displays a slight variation of African American Vernacular English a variation pf language which contains a number of distinct features that are discrete from General American English. Words like ‘probably’ and ‘because’ are shortened to ‘prolly’ and ‘cause’, the g is left of ing words such as ‘snitching’ and ‘pressing’.

[kybor1]

Ethnographic Fieldwork #3

[kybor1]