I would like to focus this week’s blog post on the Slaughter-house reading because the passage itself was so compelling. To start off, I wanted to mention a detail that stuck out for me. It was the 50 bullocks who were meant to be killed were actually for the the upperclass instead of the the […]
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This weeks’ lesson topic “The Colonial Experience” covers a concept that I have been very interested and curious about for a while now: race classification. Last year, in my first term at UBC, I took a sociology course where at some point we covered the concept of race and race classification, using Brazil as ourContinue reading “The Colonial Experience”
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Where are you from? A basic introductory question for some and a daunting one for others. My whole life this question has been a tough one to answer, when your appearance and cultural/ethnic heritage differ to the people looking at you and expecting something else it makes it difficult to assign one identity to yourself.Continue reading “Week 3: Melting Pot or Mosaic?”
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