Anna Julia Cooper (Sumblog 7)

I think Anna Julia Cooper has some great views on how people view race, sex, class, disability and ethnicity. There are much discrimination for females, lower class citizens, minority races, people with mental defects, and ethnic groups. Anna Julia Cooper talks about the segregation in society. The separation between groups is a huge thing still today, just as it was in her time. For how much we have changed since then we still have many cases of discrimination and it does not seem to be approving rapidly as it should be.

We used to talk about the United States as the melting pot. Melting pot was meant that people would come to the United States and conform to Americans. This has become less and less prevalent over the last 20 years. When people come to the United States now they are less likely to fully conform to the American culture. I like the example Dr. Barry used in class that instead of a melting pot the U.S. is more like a stew. This is where the people that come to the U.S. still keep their own identities and you can easily pick out the "carrots, beef, pees, and potatoes". This is known as pluralism and is a great point that Anna Julia Cooper talks about. 

This video show the discrimination in the United States and how it is still is very prevalent in our society today. It really gets you to think how our world can be so cruel.