Racial Tension In A "Postracial" Age. n.p.: Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, 2016., 2016. MERLIN. Web. 17 Oct. 2016.
For my last journal entry, I decided to look at how living in a post-racial society can affect student activism on a college campus. Before reading I was unsure of the meaning of postracial and was interested to see what this source had to say about it. I used parts of chapter 4 of this book to further my research.
It points out that dating back to the civil rights movement the university had been a haven for activism. I wondered how might activism today differ from the activism our elders practiced back when they were in college. I read on to see if they would mention anything about it and luckily for me they did. Social media and the use of hashtags is a big difference in our society today allowing protests to be more known everywhere and not so isolated to that one campus. It's powerful because it allows the protest to go viral. The book actually mentions the resignation of Tim Wolfe which is a part of my case study so I found that to be helpful. The source also went on to talk about microaggressions. I found it familiar to the things I read in my first journal.
This source spoke to my first source when talking about microaggressions. They both agreed that these are subtle things that bring offense to African American and other races but allowed by the university because of their social status.
This source helped me to realize that a lot of research needs to be done on my overall issue in order to find what your arguement is. There is just so many different factors that could go into internal racial division that it takes more than just five sources to figure out.
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