Posts created by students in SOC 101 during the Fall 2022 semester.
Television distorts, mocks and marginalizes fat people. Fat characters are reduced to caricatures whose stories and identities aren’t developed and don’t matter. TV audiences look down on fat characters because they are made fun of on the shows they are shown in (Himes 2007:713). Not only is the representation of fat people overwhelmingly negative, but […]
An immense amount of work goes into a song’s final product. Record labels and talented artists depend on producers to help them develop and make their music sounds its best (George, 2016). Without them, listeners wouldn’t be able to experience the emotionally engaging songs that are loved and praised so much. However, nearly every song […]
“Republicans are constantly fighting like a boxer with his hands tied behind his back…You will have an illegitimate president. That’s what you’ll have. And we can’t let that happen. These are the facts that you won’t hear from the fake news media. It’s all part of the suppression effort. They don’t want to talk about […]
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA, 2013) was established to protect minorities in the workforce. Transgender employees, however, continue to report job loss due to their gender identity. Within the last five years, many trans people have described the many ways their employers have forced them out of employment while avoiding the consequences of the Employment […]
The opening line of Langston Hughes’ poem Harlem asks, “What happens to a Dream Deferred?” The poem speaks about the pain of not realizing one’s dreams amid the racial inequalities Black Americans faced in the 1960s. Likewise, people impacted by the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAMers) currently face the pain of […]
Black children are disproportionately subject to school discipline in the United States (Crenshaw 2015; Entwisle 2007; Farkas 1990; Onyeka-Crawford 2017; Owens 2016; Skiba 2014). Although the disproportionate discipline of Black boys has generated much scholarship (Losen 2010; Raffaele Mendez 2003; Owens 2016), less attention has been paid to the disproportionate discipline of Black girls (Crenshaw […]
Over the course of the past year, M&M’s have been plastered all over the news, social media, and even Super Bowl commercials. In January of 2022, in a push towards more inclusive marketing, Mars Wrigley, M&M’s parent company, gave the brown M&M shorter heels and replaced the green M&M’s boots with sneakers. What resulted was […]
“If you want to be successful here [in America], you gotta master English. It’s a must… Language is the key… I want my children to know Korean because that’s our heritage, but we are living in America and the language of America is English… I want them to do well in school and go to […]
It didn’t matter to me that I won a Class A Section III title in my first year of track. It didn’t matter that I had broken two school records. It didn’t matter that I would be going on to compete at the college level. February 16, 2022 was the NYSPHSAA1 Section III Indoor Track […]
“Girls are expected to work under a man” In South Korea, my grandpa’s job in a restaurant was seen as more important in the eyes of the public than my grandma working in a beauty supply store. In keeping with Korean patriarchal culture, my grandparents encouraged me to choose a job where I can still […]
