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Chapter 14 Fieldwork

Parents- Power is 45% balanced 55% not. Like I can make suggestions about things but at the end of the day all authority and decisions made boils down to my parents. My parents power come their age and the fact that they made me. Whatever they say goes, I follow their rules. I believe in all my years on this earth they used their power for the best because the things they made me do or the decisions they made got me to where I am at now.

Friends- I don’t think there is no power dynamics between me and my friends. We are all the same age, we all respect each other because we are friends. But I don’t believe one friend has power over another. We all go through the same situations and we acknowledge one another in certain situations.

Professors- Behind my parents, professors have the most power over. Not to exaggerate, but they in someway control my life. If I am rude to them or do not do work that I am supposed to do they can fail. If they fail me, I can not pass the class and if I do not pass the class. If I do not pass the class, I do not get credits and no credits means no diploma. Without a diploma it will be hard to survive in the working world, see how it all connects? That is why I treat my teachers with the utmost respect because they can make or break my future.

2.  I feel like power is mostly based on age. A lot of the people who have power over me are older than me. I was always taught as a kid to respect your elders. Also gender plays a role in power as well.

3. I never really looked at political aspects when it came to power.

4. Those power dynamics started as a kid. I was taught to respect them and respect my elders so they made that power dynamic. I do not believe my power dynamic will change when it comes to parents or professors. I feel my power dynamic will change when I have children of my own.

5. I do not interact with the state or government but they have power over me cause their laws and rules affects me.

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The Relationship between Religion and the Public Square: Freedom of Religion in the Public Space

In this article it deals with Power and Religion in the political world. The muslim faith has a millet system linked in to the classical concept of the Dhimma. Religion plays a role in leaders picked and who has the “power”.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/erev.12208/full

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Rural Social Movement

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Migration Fieldwork

Xavian Tay

Dr. Howell

11/18/17

SOCI 110.001

I am Samuel Akintomide, I am originally from Nigeria. I came to the United States in the year of 2003. At the age of 7 I was placed in a new environment. Not knowing a lick of English or American culture I had to navigate through this new society. My parents brought to America because they believed I would have a better education opportunity here. School is what pulled us to come the United States. I did not attend school right away when I came here. I sat a year out then attended school. When i finally attend school it was a weird feeling. I felt different than the other kids because they looked at me as an outsider. I did not speak like them or dress like them. I did not do the same thing as the kids around me. Coming from Nigerian parents, I was not as free as all the other kids. I was more confined than other kids, I had to stay in the house. Also, I did not get the same items other kids got. My parents did not get me the Jordans or the high end brand clothes. There are vast differences from America and Nigeria, especially when it comes to gender roles. In Nigeria it is male oriented place. In Nigeria the men are the workers and breadwinners no matter what. The males control everything, while the females have to follow suit with their significant other. Women are seen as housewives and housewives only. When I came to America I seen that women have jobs and more freedom than Nigeria. Even though I faced some challenges it all worked out at the end of the day. Today I am in college and pursuing my degree. Migrating to the U.S. was a smart and strategic move.

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Migration Concept Map

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Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos is the CEO and founder of the company Amazon. Amazon started as an online bookstore and grew to a bigger corporation. Jeff Bezos funds education and medicare research. “Jeff's first major gifts was a $10 million donation to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to jumpstart a program to expand the use of certain types of immunotherapy for breast, ovarian, and prostate cancers.” Bezos is known as a democrat. He has defended gay marriage and has donated to democratic candidates.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2013/08/07/the-politics-of-jeff-bezos/?utm_term=.dc6997ea4f8b

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In Part 2 of the documentary we talk to Jon’yea McCooty of Windsor, Connecticut. She speaks on her single parent household and her attending Catholic school for majority of her life. She gives great insight on social class and her dealing with her social class within society. Watch her speak about it above!

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Part 1 of the documentary shows Michael Agbeja, of PG County/Los Angeles. He talks about his upbringing in both places, and how he learned of his social class. Take a look at his responses above!

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Mapping Kinship Relationships: Tracing Your Family Tree

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Cartoon Commercials and Construction of Gender

Boys

•Action

•Violence

•Guns

•Loud Obnoxious Music

•Fast Cars

•Intense Yelling

•Deserts

Girls

•Happy Music

•Flowers

•Pink

•Ponies

•Sleepovers

•Lakes and Rivers

The media shows us gender performance everyday and do not even realize it. They shape young boys and girls mind at a early age and make them think they are supposed to act a certain way. For example in a Hot Wheels commerical they will show fast cars, fire, and boys acting erratic or rough housing with each other. Society has this prenotion that boys are rough, aggressive beings, so the commercials play to that stigma. But in the case for girls they will show light hearted things. They will show girls playing around in circles doing each other hair. Playing with My Little Ponies while wearing pink color attires. They try to make little girls “Ladylike”. Girls should be suttle and nice human beings and thats what their commercials play to.

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Machismo and Sexuality in Nicaragua concept map

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Race as a Social Construct

What disproves the idea of race being biological?

We are 99.9% the same at genetic level.

There is no one trait that only one race possesses.

We adapt to our environments determines our skin color.

We all come from Africa.

Sexual attraction/ sexual selection- people mate with those they were attracted to, producing more people with those physical traits.

Race is not real because there are no set boundaries to categorize race(s).

There is more genetic diversity in Africa than any other part of the world.

Phenotype- you cannot tell someone’s race based on their outer appearance.

Small amount of differences between people when it comes to biology.

What can be used to determine the physical similarities between people?

Genotype

Ethnicity

Ancestry

Population 

Cline- pattern of how physical traits can be looked at in space and understood in this way (darkest people live above the equator) height and diseases can also be determined by the cline

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Defining Myself

My ethnicity is African American.

My race is Black.

My state is United States.

My nation is American.

I feel like its confusing when it comes to Ethnicity and Race because a person can be so many things but still be seen or lumped into one category.

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The Boondocks an iconic show that shows the stereotypes/problems of the minority. This show attacks political problems while adding comedy to soften the blow.

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Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an example of Race because it is the epitome of a group of people coming together as a race. BLM ties to racism because that is one of the many injustices that we are fighting against. BLM plays a huge role in today’s society because it represents how a group can come together and fight for what they believe in.

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I AM NOT MY HAIR : What is “good hair”?

Almost every young black girl can relate to this post. Sitting in a chair or on a pillow in between your mother’s legs. With a crook in your neck and only being able to feel one of your butt cheeks as the flat iron and your scalp go to battle. Only to be smacked upside the head by the brush if you move so much as a centimeter. But the end result was always worth it, and the bonding time and exciting conversations were priceless.

In an article in The Conversation, the author states,

“But while parents across all cultures comb their children’s hair, my research during graduate school revealed how, for African-American parents, the task is uniquely layered in emotionally charged, negative stereotypes about hair.”

Black hair. It comes in many lengths, textures, curl patterns and colors. And although we all have different experiences with our hair, we all face a common enemy…the debate about GOOD HAIR.

Although the definition of good hair should be a subjective idea of what kind of hair an individual may believe is the best kind of hair to have, it has become objective and universal rule of what good hair is supposed to look like: straight or wavy. Girls with this kind of hair are often praised with remarks such as “Oh girl you got that good grain.” or “Your are soooo lucky, I wish I had god hair like that.” And although the receiver of these compliments may enjoy every last one, often people fail to realize the flaw in this racial constructed stereotype that is prominent within our own race, among our own people.

And don’t even get me started on the amount of times a dark skin girl with long straight hair has to hear people ask “What are you mixed with ?” As if genes solely from African descent are not good enough to produce healthy black hair. The time and effort one puts into their hair will reflect in the way it looks not just what is in your genetic code.

Even in the work place, a stereotype of what good hair truly is exists. If a black woman comes into work with curly hair pulled into a big “puff” as we call it, some may believe that it is unsightly, uncouth, unkempt and unprofessional. But who are they to say that my hair is not “good” enough just because it is different from anyone else? People tend to judge and don’t even understand how long the perfect puff takes to make.

This racial standard of what kind of hair should and should not be accepted needs to end. There IS no GOOD hair. All hair is beautiful if you take care of it properly. And I have personally suffered too many burns from the flat iron and hot comb to be told my hair is not good enough. Not to mention heat damage that comes along with it. I am proud of my black curly hair !

This creates separation and discrimination among the black community as well and fuels the colorism as well. Women of all kinds should be able to embrace their hair no matter what texture it is. Your hair does not define you, and no one can define good hair.

Source:

https://theconversation.com/for-african-american-families-a-daily-task-to-combat-negative-stereotypes-about-hair-60154

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Race is so real to the point that we have to set boundaries for the use of certain words.