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Can You Hear Me? An Exploration of Interracial Coupling between African Americans and White Americans from the Perspective of the Black Woman
Get PDFblack-white racial tension is a sociological agent that permeates almost all forms of implicit biases when it comes to this specific race relation. The perspective of the black woman remains a highly suppressed viewpoint in the conversation of interracial dating between black and white people. The history of black and white interaction serves as a critical social basis for the dynamic of this country culturally, politically and economically. Society projects the common discourse that the United States (and the rest of the word) lives in a “post-racial” society, and that color, specifically black people, are not seen, but regarded as equal like everyone, and everything else. Unfortunately, this is completely false. This discussion will explore the saliency of the heterosexual relationships between black and white Americans and their (racialized) interactions through the perspective of the black woman as a way to reiterate 2 and reemphasize where the black woman stands in a society of male dominated white supremacy
Security in Conflict and Peace: Gendered Approaches to Human Security by Women’s NGOs
Get PDFThe first chapter gives a brief overview of human security and gender informed security as well as their critiques and the rationale behind combining the two frameworks. It also describes why women’s empowerment NGOs have the greatest capacity to actualize gender informed human security approached. To determine the success of women’s empowerment organizations implementing gender informed human security approaches in different political contexts, the second chapter reviews the operational history of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, an Iraqi women’s empowerment organization. And, the third chapter analyses the operational history of TATU, a Tanzanian women’s empowerment organization. The conclusion compares the similarities and differences between the two cases as well as summarizes the theoretical interest of the cases for gender informed and human security
The Effectiveness of Monarch Café and Hub City Farmers’ Market in Feeding the Northside: Perspectives from Two Communities
No full textThe Northside was once considered a food desert, or a low-income area that lacks access to fresh produce and other healthy foods while having 33% of the census tract population reside more than a mile from a supermarket (Gallagher, 2011). A solution to combat the of food insecurity in the Northside is the creation of Harvest Park, a food hub compromised of Hub City Farmers’ Market, Monarch Café, and a community garden/farm. The Hub City Farmers’ Market runs every Saturday from April to mid-December. Vendors at the market are from local farms and businesses (Hub City Farmers’ Market, n.d.-a). To attract a diverse array of customers, the Hub City Farmers’ Market has a double SNAP program, and after the third visit every dollar that a customer spends for up to 10 spent on fruits and vegetables will give one $10 in tokens to purchase more fruits and vegetables at the market and therefore encourage healthy eating. Another component of Harvest Park, Monarch Café, is a café and fresh food store. Monarch Café is run by the Butterfly Foundation, a community development organization. Along serving as a café and food store, it offers a culinary job training program in which unemployed and homeless adults are trained for a career in the food service industry. Monarch Café also accepts SNAP (The Butterfly Foundation, n.d.). The addition of Harvest Park has caused the Northside to no longer be considered a food desert, but the question remains whether, and how, Harvest Park is actually benefitting the Northside community. The purpose of my research is to gain insight as to how Northside residents who live in Victoria Gardens and Cleveland Heights perceive Hub City Farmers’ Market and Monarch Café. This is important because with the addition of Harvest Park, the area is no longer considered to be a food desert, so there could be potentially less focus on if Northside residents have access to fresh and affordable foods. Furthermore, my project looked into suggestions for future improvements for Monarch Café and Hub City Farmers’ Market in order to attract more Northside residents in the future