blog #5

The two books i read was "The Bluest eye"  and "American Born Chinese" both books compare with each other very well. In the bluest eye and American Born Chinese deal with people not like who they really are,and they want to make change. The bluest eye Pecola wanted to be light skinned so she will fill better about herself and people would like her. In American Born Chinese Jin thoughtif he could be white he would be a better person.
Both  create conversation about cultural identity, race, and privilege. Both books talks about cultural identity by, "The Bluest Eye" saying, blonde hair, blue eyes, and pink skin is successful, beautiful, and privileged and black is ugly.And, "American Born Chinese" says, being a monkey isn't fit for normal, just as being Asian or Chinese isn't good enough or beneath other races. The conversation of race that both books display is that different races don't mesh well, or being different do not go together when trying to have a relationship of some sort. Even if things are going well there's always someone from the outside looking in disapproving. The conversation being held on the topic of privilege is that both books seem to portray being white is the way to go, or is simply the most successful race as well as the most rewarded and powerful.
Both books goes great with theme and relate to power and privilege 

blog #4 is rasicm learned

In class we discussed views on rasicm in our lifetime. One question that came up was, do you think racism is learned?. I believe that a person is brought up to hate another person. When we are born we are born not knowing anything. We do not know about problems in the world when we are born. I think the family you are in is a big part of who you are and become. All people should be viewed as equal but history plays a big role in that. So a child will find out about racism even if the child is not taught it.

Unit 2 will be very interesting.