Annika Dean ☆ Portfolio
Revised Journal 3
I picked this journal because I believe it emphasizes one of the objectives of the course which involves reading with attention to ideas, structure, and style and recognizing the ways that
writers convey their ideas. I explain clearly why I think Joy DeGruy created the term and how its ideology of it continues to affect African Americans.
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Prompt: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome provides the language to discuss a thing that many already know to be true but for which they lacked vocabulary. In what ways do you think this idea provides a useful framework for discussion? Evaluate the usefulness of the speaker's argument for you and whether you can concur or not with many of the points raised. Which points hold the most weight and value for you. In not less than 250 words, please compose a thoughtful response.
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS) is a phrase created by globally acclaimed scholar Joy DeGruy, PhD, to characterize the multigenerational trauma faced by African Americans. It encapsulates the beginning of slavery to the current killings of Black individuals at the hands of police. PTSS is comparable to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In some cases, African Americans are sometimes wary of the care they will receive from therapists, they may only visit the doctor as a last resort. DeGruy talks about how they developed adaptive behaviors that allowed them to survive and, in some cases, thrive. She wraps up her presentation by reassessing the adaptive behaviors that have been passed down through the generations. I believe she did a great job explaining this term, its creation, and how it continues to affect African Americans as a people.
Revised Journal 9
I selected this journal after reading the objectives of the course. The one I believe this accomplishes is that I respond critically to the texts by summarizing, paraphrasing, and
analyzing it.
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Prompt: The speaker learns nine lessons in "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow." Are any of those lessons still relevant today? If so, how, and what are the differences, if any? Please respond in no less than 250 words.
In this article, Richard Wright describes nine different events, each of which involves white people and how they have mistreated him over the years. There were a few stories that stuck out to me.
The first story followed his gang as they got into a battle with some white children who fought them with broken glass bottles instead of their normal cinders. Richard was beaten till he became ill.
The second story follows Richard as he then relocated to a new home in Mississippi. Richard obtains his first job at an optical company, and he treats the white guys who work there with respect. When he politely asks whether they would teach him part of the trade as they had promised, they become irritated with him, and he is eventually pushed out.
Richard's bike tire is punctured in story three. He accepts a ride from a white man and their automobile is packed with young white men, and Richard fails to address them as "sir." So, they tossed him from the truck and beat him, then tell him he should be grateful since he would have been killed by other white people.
After reading all of the stories, Richard implies that white people want African Americans to be meek, obedient, and respectful all at once. This entire essay is about actual Jim Crow laws that exist in the real world. Each law imposed brutal ethics toward people of color, and the play entails him describing many instances in which he was abused by white people. People nowadays advocate for a colorblind society that allows individuals of color to experience everything that people of other races can, but race remains a major benefactor in daily life.