Category: race

  • Making connections with the audience: professionalism and alienation

    Yongho Kim Labor’s Story through Music May 10, 2004. (due May 7th – three days late ) Making connections with the audience: professionalism and alienation In reflecting on the production of “Forgotten”, I want to focus on the difference between the performance at the Union Hall and the one at Macalester in the level of […]

  • imagined conversation between Benjamin Filene and Ruth Glasser on "authenticity"

    Yongho Kim Labor’s Story through Music May 10, 2004 (due April 15 – 3 weeks late) [DJ plays “We shall not be moved” by the Almanac Singers] Glasser: I like how the band uses the banjo, which gives it a more folk feel. Were the instruments made in the east coast before being sold to […]

  • Coalition-making in The Fuse’s Seattle 1919

    Yongho Kim Labor’s Story through Music February 25, 2004 Coalition-making in The Fuse’s Seattle 1919: Class Solidarity and Divisiveness, and Incorporation of the Other in post-World War I Unionism. Seattle 1919 addresses issues of class solidarity frequently present in the newly emerging U.S. unionism and attempts to unite workers from different race, gender, and skill […]

  • Ejercicio Etnográfico: Consumo de la cultura latina popular en los EEUU

    Theorizing U.S. Latina/o Popular Culture. Prof. María Elena Cepeda Macalester College , Febrero 11, 2004 Yongho Kim Ejercicio Etnográfico #1: Consumo de la cultura latina popular en los Estados Unidos Metodología: Mis preguntas podrían categorizarse en tres: Las dos primeras tenían el fin de aprender más de cerca la vida diaria de los entrevistados y […]

  • [Comment] Blues people: negro music in white america

    Yongho Kim Telling Labor’s Story through Music February 10, 2004 Baraka points out in chapter 2 that West African music provided a baseline for the music sung by African-Americans who came to the United States through slavery. Two main tenets of these West African roots are the multilingualism of its lyrics and the narrow albeit […]

  • Integration Paper on Race and Ethnicity

    Introduction to Sociology Professor Sharon Preves Due by December 9th Turned in by December 16th (7 days late) The U.S. banned the discrimination based on race, sex or ethnicity, through the Civil Rights Act, almost 40 years ago in 1964. However, more subtle, permeating forms of racism are prevalent in today’s U.S. society according to […]