Posts tagged ‘Racism’
Traces of the Trade: a Story of the Deep North
The film, “Traces of the Trade: a Story of the Deep North,” documents how a family, rooted in the slave trade, traveled on a similar journey its ancestors made when they enslaved Africans during the 1800s. Katrina Browne, a DeWolf descendent, created the film out of curiosity about her family’s involvement in American slavery, and so she initiated a reunion of DeWolf descendants.
“Racial Label Surprises Many Latino Immigrants”
The reading, “People of Color Who Never Felt They Were Black” by Darryl Fears (Washington Post 2002), explains the concept of race and the different perceptions conceived about the skin color of people of Latin American decent. Overall, I found the reading to give a complete perspective of Latinos and their comparison to the racial groups in both Latin America and the U.S.
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