Article: “On Being Black and Middle Class”
Author: Shelby Steele
Analysis: After carefully reading the articles available to write on, I decide to write my paper on Shelby Steele’s, “On Being Black and Middle Class”. In this paper Steele argues that a person can be both Black and middle class. He is arguing against the accepted idea that a Black person is Black, nothing else. He uses many specific arguments to defend his position. He uses lots of personal experience and analysis of those experiments to attack this common belief. He also goes deeper by stating how this thought is not only wrong but damaging to the very cause that the Black people are fighting against. This article was interesting, because this attitude is seen a lot in the Hispanic-American community. It is seen as something admirable to finish college in this community, but also something that makes you less Hispanic. I am looking forward to delving deeper into this article and analyzing it.
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Eduardo,
ReplyDeleteYour post has me thinking of Richard Rodriguez, who writes often of such issues: "It is seen as something admirable to finish college in this community, but also something that makes you less Hispanic." He's got a few essays that highlight this exact experience within his family and community as he moves upward and onward, eventually earning a Ph.D.
That sounds very interesting. I will have to look him up and read some of his writing. I never knew that, that experience had been written on. Guess everything has been written on at some point. Thanks for pointing him out to me.
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