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You are required to write 2-page responses based on weekly reading assignments. To fulfill this assignment, you are required to write at least one quote/ excerpt from the week’s reading and then explain why you find it compelling, interesting, important, or perhaps problematic. See course schedule for due dates. These papers must be submitted (see reading response example on pg. 9-11 of syllabus). Great opportunity to reflect and practice your analytical skills.
Garza, Alicia. The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart. 1st Ed. New York: One World, 2020
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The excerpt ‘where I am from’ by Frantz narrates a story of a girl born from parents hailing from different cultural backgrounds and how she was brought up by a single parent who shaped her life. Both author's parents were born-in 150s, and they become of age during the 1960s and 1970s. Her biological father comes from a business people family where they cascaded wealth from one generation to another; thus, it was a rich family (Alicia). On the flip side, her mother was born and raised in a working family. Father was a long-distance driver, and her mother was a domestic worker. The author's mother logged to have and enjoy freedom in her life, but her family and community could not offer her such freedom, and thus she kept moving from one country to another in search of freedom.
At first, she moves to New York, where she joined the army, and she received basic training before moved to Dix in New Jersey for comprehensive military training. The narrator's mother was brought up in a community that could only allow ladies to take up simple economic roles like secretaries, retail clerks, or domestic work. On the other side, the father was raised in a family of white people who believed that every opportunity is theirs, discriminating against the black skined...
