Author Archives: Mishell Manrique

In terms of discussion regarding the reading of Cosmopolitan or Mongrel reading and class discussion we ended up talking about the video shown in class of the singer Brother Marvin and his calypso Jahali Bhai.   “Indo and Afro Trinbagonian … Continue reading →

Adam and I discussed the ideas behind Klor de Alvas arguments in Postcolonization of the Latin American Experience: A Reconsideration of Colonialism, Postcolonialism and Mestizaje. There was a bit of bias and I guess first witness knowledge from my part … Continue reading →

I went to a private elementary school that cost $14,000 a year, and kept rising each year after. I then went to a private, preparatory all girls high school that started at $21000 and kept rising each year after. I … Continue reading →

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K5fbQ1-zps One of the reasons I began to get interested in education and the disparaties that occur within the system was because of videos such as these. If you watch it you will see a white, middle aged man, telling … Continue reading →

During the Spring of my Sophomore year I took a class with Dr. Jayman in which we learned about the legitimation crisis as described by economist and theorist Jürgen Habermas. He employed an illustration now known as the systems theory … Continue reading →

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8pwm7GK0BM U.S. Schools Still Segregated The reason I picked this as a means to use in my blog post is because AJ+ often appears in facebook video feed. That is actually where I found it. This video brings forth a … Continue reading →

Annotated Bibliography: The Impact of School-Based Poverty Concentration on Academic Achievement and Student Outcomes I found an Annotated Bibliography regarding research ranging 50 years regarding the effect on the economic status of students based on their academic achievement. This research … Continue reading →

New York State’s Extreme School Segregation by John Kucsera and Gary Orfield https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/ny-norflet-report-placeholder/Kucsera-New-York-Extreme-Segregation-2014.pdf I found a report carried out by the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles that was about 160 pages long and held too … Continue reading →

  “The New York City public-school system is 41 percent Latino, 27 percent black and 16 percent Asian. Three-quarters of all students are low-income. In 2014, the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, released a report showing that New York … Continue reading →

https://consetta.deviantart.com/art/South-Africa-Pencil-Test-94458739 https://www.thoughtco.com/racial-classification-under-apartheid-43430 I was looking through different websites talking about the system of Apartheid and came across this image. It is the image of a black woman, with very curly hair, and pencils sticking out of her head. For someone … Continue reading →