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Student to Student Discussion Board: Race and Citizenship (2962)
Discussion Topic: Race, Immigration, and Power
Discussion Question (please pick one):
Pick a concept from chapter 2 or 13. Write the concept in boldface font and define it. Additionally, provide parenthetical citation information with the page number from the textbook where you found the concept/term. Next, please explain how learning about this concept helps you understand your own experiences in the U.S.
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Pick a quote from the text that struck you in a meaningful way and write the quote in boldface font. Additionally, provide parenthetical citation information with the page number from the textbook where you found the quote. Next, please explain how this quote/sentence from the textbook helps you better understand your own racial experiences in the U.S. and/or racial conditions in the U.S.
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Chapters 2 and 13 address the was in which the U.S. has administered different types of immigration policies for different parts of the world (e.g. policies for people immigrating from Europe versus Asia versus Latin America). First, compare and contrast the ways U.S. immigration policies have been similar and/or different based on the sending country. Next, discuss why you think policies have varied. Be sure to draw on the textbook to support your explanation and provide parenthetical citation information with the page number from the textbook where you drawing or quoting from.
Include the following components in your submission:
Write at least 1 paragraph, minimum of 7-10 sentences for your original post
Include at least one quote from the textbook to support your discussion. Be sure to provide the page number for the quote.
Provide meaningful feedback to at least 1 classmate (minimum of 5 sentences; thoughtful responses express how you connect or relate to the post and can also add on thoughts in response to the content of the original post)
Reply to this classmate: Name: Emma Skala
A quote that stood out to me from chapter two of the textbook was on the topic of how groups integrated into the United States experienced both assimilation and racialization. The author states that “assimilation is a process whereby immigrants lose their ethnic distinctiveness and become part of the mainstream—for example, when Italian Americans become simply Americans. Racialization is a process whereby people come to be recognized as part of a racial group, such as when Mediterranean people become White (as defined by themselves and others)” (Golash-Boza, 53). I found it important to take note of these two definitions, and understand the examples provided, because they are both terms that relate to the experience of immigration within the United States and showcase how race plays a factor in our society. This quote also allowed me to take a step back and reflect on my own experiences as a first-generation American daughter to two parents who immigrated to the United States from ex-Yugoslavia. Based on the definition, I would say I have experienced a form of assimilation since I’m usually viewed as an American and am grouped into the American culture, although a big part of my identity and culture that I follow would still represent the Serbian and Croatian parts of my ethnicity. I am very connected to my culture, yet growing up here I have noticed how easy it may be to lose ethnic diversity and simply become part of the mainstream, as the author previously stated. With this, I do strongly acknowledge though that I haven’t actively experienced racialization because I have never not been considered or perceived as anything other than White. I understand that within the United States, I am only culturally, not racially, different from other White people and that being grouped into the category of White is a reflection of privilege within the United States.
Textbook: Golash-Boza, Tanya. Race & Racisms: a critical approach, 3rd ed. New York: Oxford.
