Taylor, S. (2005). From border control to migration management: the case for a paradigm change in the Western response to transborder population movement. Social Policy & Administration, 39(6), 563-586.
The Author’s thesis in the paper is talking about how states have the sovereign right to exclude non-citizens from their territory. The Main Point of the article is to talk about how the government is an exclusionist system that doesn’t want people of color operating within their system. The government uses a Eurocentric method of controlling which only allows for certain positions of power to be able to have power over others. That is the point that the author tries to make when she talks about the Eurocentric methods of control.
I picked this article for a couple of reasons one of the reasons is the way Taylor indicates the Eurocentric method of control is the reason why people are excluded from activities that are considered to be for people of a higher social status. Another one of the reasons I picked this article is because it gave me an in depth look at how the government operates when looking at people of color. It presents a specific view on how the government uses policies to exclude people of color. This article relates to my conflict because it talks about controlling the people of color when they are treated as exclusionary. I wish the author talked more about how this affects other aspects of the citizen’s rights.
Wilderson III, F. (ND). Icognegro: The theory of afro-pessimism. Incognegro, a Memoir of Exile and Apartheid , Retrieved from http://www.incognegro.org/memoir.html
Wilderson’s thesis in the article is talking about Afro-pessimism and the idea of Afro-Pessimism is that Black Subjectivity sends the people of color (African Americans and Latin Americans) into a state of ontological death which is caused by objectifying people of color by dehumanizing them and killing their mind and soul. This is one of the main points of the article because Wilderson explains that only when the people of color can accept themselves and stop objectifying their culture. Wilderson points out that we need to hold politicians feet to the fire in order to get equal treatment for all people of color.
I picked this article because it gives me a more radical look at the racism because Wilderson is known as a very radical author when it comes to race. Racism in my topic is one of the aspects that I really want to get people to understand so that is why I picked this article because when talking about race you have to understand why people see us as people of color as simple stereotypes and not regular people. This gives me a broad view of my topic when I reference border control but very specific when it comes to talking about racism within the community and government
Graham, R., Skidmore, T. E., Helg, A., Knight, A., & American Council of Learned Societies. (1990). The Idea of race in Latin America, 1870-1940. Austin: University of Texas Press.
The thesis in Graham Article indicates that racism in Latin America because a person assumes that just because it is Latin America that the only problems there are poverty and drug wars. That assumption is the assumption of those in privileged positions in the government because they don’t care for the people of color because they understand that no one will do anything. The main point of the article is to elaborate on how people in Latin America experience racism when the American Government send task forces over that abuse their power and dehumanize the people in Latin America which increases the problem of racism because America is known for having racist organizations that try to take over every place that they can established.
I picked this article because it gives me a specific look into the racism that affects Latin Americans. The article indicates that the actions of the U.S. within Mexico are the same actions that U.S. use to police the streets because they use violence to oppress people of color when they deem them as false threats in order to get politicians funding to continue their appalling civil rights violation. This article is very useful because it gives me a historical background to the research that I am looking for when I am trying evaluate the impact of racism in Latin America.
Wilderson III, F. B. (2010). Red, White & Black: Cinema and the structure of US antagonisms. Duke University Press.
The thesis of this paper is the idea of U.S. antagonism and how the government projects itself to be something it’s not like a melting pot. The main point of this article is to allow us as people of color and U.S. Citizens that the U.S. is an antagonist country that doesn’t allow for the people of color to operate within the system. The main point of the article is to talk about how the U.S. is the antagonist means that they are very two-faced organization that systematically oppresses the people of color.
I picked this article because it gives me the opportunity to understand how the U.S. reacts to the people of color because through Wilderson’s article the people of color can become liberated through reading this article because it allows to see the truth of whets going on in the government. The article gives me a specific view of how the government works when applying policies that deal with the people of color. This gives me a specific view when talking about how we as people of color should deal with the government when we demand answers about their policies.
Mills, C. W. (1998). Blackness visible: Essays on philosophy and race. Cornell University Press.
We can explain history in terms of dialects. Master and slave inversion. No difference it’s all sameness. Alterity only comes from when we assert ourselves in a new world of image. The negative negates themselves out of existence. They are merely a reaction to the world. Mills gives me a view into why the black body is seen as inferior when talking racism in a white supremacist government. This is the main point of the article when talking about racism in the government.
I picked this article because it gave me a very specific view on how racism impacts the governments immigration policies. The idea that hill poses is the idea of black invisibility which makes things obvious on how the government looks over the problems of the people of color because they don’t care.
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