Journal

Jessica DelBovo

Journal 3

Over these last three weeks, I have observed and experienced what it means to be of a different ethnicity and/or race. The first incident happened in one of my classes. A student got very defensive to our T.A. because she is from India and has a thick accent. He questioned why she would be teaching a class if many people could not understand her. I believe he got angry with our T.A. because he was not comfortable with someone that comes from another country and her native language is not English (Feagin 2012: 374). In other words, he is not used to cultural diversity. Another observation I saw was that two students, a male and female, were arguing with each other about the issue of gender equality. The male believed that men as a group dominate women as a group, especially in terms of socioeconomic power and resources which, in other words, is called a patriarchal system (Feagin 2012: 46). His family probably works in that the male has more power so he was raised on that belief. My last incident was that I heard from my friend that an African American girl in her class had to deal with gendered racism from other males (Feagin 2012: 46). They did not want to work in a group with her because she was not only a girl, but also black. Again, this probably comes from how they were raised by their parents in that sense.

Feagin, Joe R. and Feagin, Clairece Booher. 2012. Racial and Ethnic Relations, 9th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.

Journal 1

Over the last three weeks, I have experienced and seen firsthand of how others deal with people of different ethnicity and race. I have experienced it from being stereotyped from my classmates as a loud and obnoxious Italian. They used ethnic stereotype because I told them I was Italian and they assumed I was like the Italians that are in movies and television. They were influenced by the media that a group of people act in a certain way that does not portray them in a positive...