Week Four Reflection

For our presentation our main question/ the scope of the project is what it means to be an American. My group decided to take a racial aspect. Our stance on the project is America has raised the majority of  people to be culturally biased towards white people through media production.Throughout this project, We have learned many things. We have learned that America today has raised people culturally biased towards white people, through media productions portray minorities in a negative way. We asked 20 white people and 20 black people to take a Harvard study on whether they have a cultural bias and we found that 12 people had a preference to white people, 7 people had a preference to black people, and one had no preference.  We also learned that the wage gap between white people and minorities has only grown in the last 30 years. The wage gap in 1979 was 18% and now we are close to a 27% wage gap between white people and minorities.  Lastly, we learned that police brutality in America is a large problem for black people.  One statistic shows that African Americans have a 2.7 times higher likelihood of getting killed by police rather white people.

Week Three Reflection Vlog

What it Means to be an American Project

This week for our "What it Means to be an American" project we accomplished several things. One major thing we accomplished was getting another interview with one of our group member's dad. Again, in this interview Nick discussed with his father racism, how racism has affected his life, and how it has affected his relationships over the years.

Research for this Week

We also gathered more research that shows racism/ inequality in the work place. The research from the article I read from CNN News states "racial gender gap is worse than it was 40 years ago.  The article goes more in depth with statistics asserting that "blacks make 27% less than the common white man where as 40  years ago the wage gap was only 18%. The group has also started to make a presentation, which shows what the group has accomplished throughout the entire project.  

Week Two Blog Reflection

Our Interview

In this interview I interviewed my sisters boyfriend (Malcom Dillard) on what it was like to be an African American in America. The interview gives a broad overview on the prejudices America has on minorities and the struggles one faces throughout life.

Research 

Our research highlights how racism in America has had an influx in the past decade. Also, the research dives in on how police brutality is more common among minorities, and how they have a 2.7 times more of a chance of suffering from police brutality. Another subject the research talks about is how America is culturally biased and raises Americas younger generations to have the same prejudices as the previous. We discovered this by using the Harvard IAT racial test and creating our social experiment of 20 whites and 20 minorities to see who they have a positive opinion on. To no surprise we found that America has more of a positive opinion on whites. 

Reflection of Project

The piece of literature we are going to highlight in our presentation is "The New Jim Crow". This ties into our topic as the book describes how the Justice system in America still targets minorities in America even though it is 100 plus years later. For our project we are going to interview Nick's African American Dad (Tyrone Brown) and my sisters boyfriend (Malcolm Dillard), an illegal immigrant (Undisclosed name for ICE reasons) and my sister boyfriend's brother (Ronnie Dillard).