This document discusses transnational political and cultural identities among Latinos in the United States. It notes that Latinos have crossed political borders or have been crossed by them, and citizenship is required for political participation but assumes loyalty to a single nation-state. However, immigrant communities develop hybrid identities that incorporate both their home and host cultures, as seen in the paintings of Bibiana Suarez that depict experiences between cultures.
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Presentation at Youth (Sub)cultures in Changing Societies Conference, Centre for Lifestyles Studies, Institute for International and Social Studies, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia, 2-4 February 2011 made by Eugen Glavan.
Abstract
The city of Bologna (Italy) is known for the left wing political options of inhabitants and for the one of the lowest child birth rates in a Europe city. Those aspects, combined with the fact that the city has the largest university in Europe in terms of numbers of students, shapes the local youth culture in a particular way. The paper investigates the visual manner in which young inhabitants of Bologna express themselves in an attempt to identify the characteristics of their public voice. Using the methods of visual sociology, I analyze the graffiti in terms of locations and content trying to explain the process of socialization in a stable and prosperous society.
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Presentation at Youth (Sub)cultures in Changing Societies Conference, Centre for Lifestyles Studies, Institute for International and Social Studies, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia, 2-4 February 2011 made by Eugen Glavan.
Abstract
The city of Bologna (Italy) is known for the left wing political options of inhabitants and for the one of the lowest child birth rates in a Europe city. Those aspects, combined with the fact that the city has the largest university in Europe in terms of numbers of students, shapes the local youth culture in a particular way. The paper investigates the visual manner in which young inhabitants of Bologna express themselves in an attempt to identify the characteristics of their public voice. Using the methods of visual sociology, I analyze the graffiti in terms of locations and content trying to explain the process of socialization in a stable and prosperous society.
Social comparison theory was first proposed in 1954 by psychologist Leon Festinger and suggested that people have an innate drive to evaluate themselves, often in comparison to others. One of the key ways in which People make judgments about themselves, is through social comparison, or analyzing the self in relation to others.
6 general points to consider in academic writing - TCFEX's Research & Develop...Sina Moeini
In academic writing you must consider many factors.
The ones we will briefly discuss here are six general points you should take into consideration while writing academic papers. These are Audience, Purpose, Organization, Style, Flow and Presentation.
To suggest, as textbooks tend to do, that politics takes place in a social context fails to convey just how intimately politics and social life are related. Politics, by its very nature, is a social activity, and it is viewed by some as nothing more than the process through which the conflicts of society are articulated and, perhaps, resolved. In this sense, society is no mere 'context', but the very stuff and substance of politics itself. Although later chapters examine the interaction between society and politics in relation to particular channels of communication, such as the media, elections, political parties, interest groups and so on, this chapter focuses on the broader political implications of how society is structured and how it has changed and continues to change. For example, the transition from agrarian societies to industrial societies and then to so-called post-industrial society has profoundly altered levels of social connectedness and given rise to new political battle lines. Not only has post-industrialism been associated with the declining significance of social class, but technological change, particularly in the fields of information and communication, has altered the breadth of connections between and among people, as well as the nature of these connections. These and related factors have been linked to the strengthening of individualism, with major political consequences. Modern thinking about the relationship between politics and society is, nevertheless, increasingly focused on the issue of identity, which, many claim, has given rise to a new politics of group self-assertion, commonly called identity politics. Amongst its other implications, this trend has highlighted the political significance of factors such as race and ethnicity, gender and culture
Post-industrialism is characterized, amongst other things, by an increasing emphasis on knowledge and information generally, with the advent of the internet and the wider use of computer-based technologies having given rise to the 'information society'. Not only do information societies connect more people to more other people, but the nature of those connections has also changed, especially through the development of looser and more diffuse networks
Any student in a high level institution will be usually required to write a variety of dissertations, papers and essays throughout the whole period of their studies.
These writing tasks and assignments will cover a myriad of goals, objectives and purposes.
Memoryscapes, Archaeology, and the River Street Neighborhood, Boise, IdahoRiverStreetHistory
Prior to the Civil Rights movement, most cities in the United States had at least one racially segregated neighborhood--a place where the "others" lived. This was typically a geographic location designated by the Euroamerican community as the area non-Euroamericans could reside. In Boise, Idaho, non-Euroamericans lived in the River Street Neighborhood, a place where African Americans, Basque, Japanese, and Eastern Europeans established homes and businesses. While the boundaries of this neighborhood were known by all residents, they were never formally demarcated on the map. River Street existed as a segregated enclave in the memoryscapes of historical Boiseans of all races. Oral history interviews conducted in advance of an upcoming community archaeology project revealed the boundaries of the River Street Neighborhood as remembered by African American residents. The multi-disciplinary concept of memoryscapes was applied in order to provide an ‘emic’ perspective of the role the neighborhood played in the creation of whiteness for Boise’s Euroamericans.
Social comparison theory was first proposed in 1954 by psychologist Leon Festinger and suggested that people have an innate drive to evaluate themselves, often in comparison to others. One of the key ways in which People make judgments about themselves, is through social comparison, or analyzing the self in relation to others.
6 general points to consider in academic writing - TCFEX's Research & Develop...Sina Moeini
In academic writing you must consider many factors.
The ones we will briefly discuss here are six general points you should take into consideration while writing academic papers. These are Audience, Purpose, Organization, Style, Flow and Presentation.
To suggest, as textbooks tend to do, that politics takes place in a social context fails to convey just how intimately politics and social life are related. Politics, by its very nature, is a social activity, and it is viewed by some as nothing more than the process through which the conflicts of society are articulated and, perhaps, resolved. In this sense, society is no mere 'context', but the very stuff and substance of politics itself. Although later chapters examine the interaction between society and politics in relation to particular channels of communication, such as the media, elections, political parties, interest groups and so on, this chapter focuses on the broader political implications of how society is structured and how it has changed and continues to change. For example, the transition from agrarian societies to industrial societies and then to so-called post-industrial society has profoundly altered levels of social connectedness and given rise to new political battle lines. Not only has post-industrialism been associated with the declining significance of social class, but technological change, particularly in the fields of information and communication, has altered the breadth of connections between and among people, as well as the nature of these connections. These and related factors have been linked to the strengthening of individualism, with major political consequences. Modern thinking about the relationship between politics and society is, nevertheless, increasingly focused on the issue of identity, which, many claim, has given rise to a new politics of group self-assertion, commonly called identity politics. Amongst its other implications, this trend has highlighted the political significance of factors such as race and ethnicity, gender and culture
Post-industrialism is characterized, amongst other things, by an increasing emphasis on knowledge and information generally, with the advent of the internet and the wider use of computer-based technologies having given rise to the 'information society'. Not only do information societies connect more people to more other people, but the nature of those connections has also changed, especially through the development of looser and more diffuse networks
Any student in a high level institution will be usually required to write a variety of dissertations, papers and essays throughout the whole period of their studies.
These writing tasks and assignments will cover a myriad of goals, objectives and purposes.
Memoryscapes, Archaeology, and the River Street Neighborhood, Boise, IdahoRiverStreetHistory
Prior to the Civil Rights movement, most cities in the United States had at least one racially segregated neighborhood--a place where the "others" lived. This was typically a geographic location designated by the Euroamerican community as the area non-Euroamericans could reside. In Boise, Idaho, non-Euroamericans lived in the River Street Neighborhood, a place where African Americans, Basque, Japanese, and Eastern Europeans established homes and businesses. While the boundaries of this neighborhood were known by all residents, they were never formally demarcated on the map. River Street existed as a segregated enclave in the memoryscapes of historical Boiseans of all races. Oral history interviews conducted in advance of an upcoming community archaeology project revealed the boundaries of the River Street Neighborhood as remembered by African American residents. The multi-disciplinary concept of memoryscapes was applied in order to provide an ‘emic’ perspective of the role the neighborhood played in the creation of whiteness for Boise’s Euroamericans.
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Surname: 13
Name: David Obeng
Instructor: Karen
Course: Sociology of Race & Racism
Date:
RACE AND RACISM
Introduction
Race and ethnicity are subjects of scholarly articulation with academicians, politicians and masses tending to wish to explore more on the topic. Racism can be defined by a common belief that all members of a group or each race possess distinctiveness and abilities particular to that race or group especially so as to differentiate it as either inferior or superior to another race or ethnic group (Back, 20). This essay gives a narrative analysis of my personal experiences as I grew up in Canada, outlines race and ethnic theories that support and argument my perspectives of sociological perception about race and racism and gives a conclusive overview of the matter.
Overview of Canada
To comprehend Canada, one needs to comprehend racism because Canada has developed as a racist nation in the past decades even though measures have been instituted to curb the vice. Race unrests, racially-based union enrollment, segregated schools, mass expulsions of guiltless individuals, the state endorsed children kidnapping, a cognizant endeavor at cultural genocide and substantially more have formed Canada's history (Rees, 257).
Bigotry keeps on being manifested in different ways in Canadian culture. It is not an inaccessible "awful" memory, something that past eras experienced and practiced. Numerous Canadians recognize some history of racial abuse and the necessity to deal with it. In any case endeavors are frequently restricted by the continual difference of Canadian prejudice with American bigotry in a manner that empowers moral prevalence, drawing on such antiquities as the Underground Railroad. The lack of the chronicled memory of the act of servitude by individuals from the family conservative in Upper and Lower Canada or the deliberately uneven salaries paid to Blacks doing similar function as white laborers, which incited mobs. The result is an upsetting refusal of contemporary racial abuse.
The Canadian record on prejudice still incorporates a legacy Aboriginal individuals need to live with day by day, confiscated of their territory by power and cunning, exploited by social genocide, denied to participate in certain monetary exercises until under thirty years back (Larocque, 73). A legacy that building determination of long-standing arrangement cases extended because it includes sharing of authority.
My experience
I was brought up in Toronto. I attended schools that were prevalently non-Native and got to be usual to being the only black Canadian in the room. I additionally grew up with a family who were profoundly established in our way of life, dialect, services, and perspectives. Being so profoundly inundated in both Native and non-Native groups I knew from a youthful age that these two realms did not in any way fit together. I recall some of my companions letting me know that their folks did not need me over at their home f ...
‘Transborderism’ and Social Imaginary in the U.S.-Mexican BorderantiAtlas of Borders
Atelier 4 - Norma Iglesias-Prieto
The starting point is the idea that the border—both in its geopolitical and symbolic dimension—marks the life and experience of subjects and that this condition, in turn, marks the way in which we represent the border. That is, the social imaginary is built from a series of varied social representations that respond to different border conditions. My work analyzes the levels of transborderism and their relationship to the levels of complexity of social representations in the U.S.-Mexican border, particularly that of Tijuana and San Diego. In my presentation, I will speak first of the theoretical statement that support the notions of border and transborderism; second, I will analyze diverse cultural expressions (visual arts, oral narratives, cinematographic animations) that show the different levels of complexity of social representations in this particular border.
Transfrontiérisme et imaginaire social à la frontière américano-mexicaine
Mon point de départ est que la frontière – à la fois dans sa dimension géopolitique et symbolique – marque la vie et l’expérience des sujets et que cette condition affecte, à son tour, la manière dont nous représentons la frontière. L’imaginaire social est construit à partir d’une série de représentations sociales qui répondent à différentes conditions de frontière. Mon travail analyse les degrés de transfrontiérisme (transborderism) et leur relation aux niveaux de complexité des représentations sociales à la frontière américano-mexicaine, en particulier dans la région de Tijuana-San Diego. Dans ma présentation, je parlerai tout d’abord de l’énoncé théorique qui fonde la notion de frontière et de transfrontiérisme ; ensuite, j’analyserai différentes expressions culturelles (art visuel, récits oraux, animations cinématographiques) qui montrent différent niveaux de complexité des représentations sociales sur cette frontière particulière.
2. Latino/as in the United States have crossed
political borders or rather, have been crossed by
political borders. (see p. 370)
3. Latinos/as and citizenship
“There are few analytical and legal concepts that go
beyond the nation-state as the parameter for political
participation, making it difficult to envision immigrant
political participation in both host and home
countries.” (Torres: 371)
4. Citizenship and the nation-state
• Citizenship and residency are requirements
for political participation.
• Citizenship assumes loyalty to the state.
• Citizens are assumed to have a common cultural
base.
6. Latino/a Identity
Rethinking the notion of identity for inmigrants.
Some notions proposed by Latino/as artists, writers,
scholars and activists
• The affective return to the homeland
• Border identities
7. Paintings by Bibiana Suarez
From the Dominoes Series
“Her ambivalence inspired
Dominó (Dominoes), a two-
year body of work that is still in
progress.”
Victor M. Cassidy
8.
9. Paintings by Bibiana Suarez
From the Dominoes Series
“Her ambivalence inspired
Dominó (Dominoes), a two-
year body of work that is still in
progress.”
Victor M. Cassidy
