Race as an issue

Ethnic Graduation

class terms

racelessness.(p. 40)
Villanueva says racelessness occurs when someone of a racial minority chooses to forego conforming into their own race’s linguistic and stylistic trappings that are fostered by fictive kinship. being alone by not being fully accepted by the white majority or those of their own race." - Colby


Bi-culturism is a unique paradigm brought up by Victor Villanueva and is the condition where two cultures coexist in a society where one culture usually has less political and socioeconomic strength then another.- Berghofer

fictive-kinship
It’s described as “the ways in which African Americans assert the collective” through particular patterns of behavior. The opposite of this is racelessness - Griffen


dialect
While this term is meant to apply only to language, it can be applied to all forms of rhetoric in general. - Jorgensen

English Language Amendment

Abstract from he English Language Amendment: Backgrounds and Prospects.

A brief narrative description of the journal article, document, or resource. English has historically been accepted as the de facto language standard for the United States. Legislative efforts have attempted to manipulate language in this country, and there is presently an attempt to introduce a constitutional amendment making English the official language of the United States. Supporters of the amendment stress problems of miscommunication in a polyglot society, urge national unity, and emphasize the need to assimilate foreign populations. Opponents see the amendment as an effort not so much to promote English as to exclude certain non-English speaking immigrants, notably Hispanics and Asians, from our society. Adopting the amendment will not facilitate the adoption of English but may deter English learning by isolating non-English speakers further from the American mainstream. (Author/MSE)

English Language Amendment

menu-driven society

We liken this article to the idea of the menu-driven society.

Some quotes from the reading

"He tries to be white, kind of, taking the lead of whte cultural hybrid" page 36

"Biculturalism mean the tensions within, which are caused by veing unable to deny the old or the new" page 39

Racelessness- "the denial of other-cultural affiliation, a denial of the collective; it is the embracing of america's dominant ideology" page 39-40

Fictive Kinship- a way in which people assert through particular dress codes, musical styles, other-cultural trappings. page 40

"Choosing racelessness, bears a price, however. And that pric is alienation- the loss of fictive kinships withou being fully adopted by the white community" page 40


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