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In Class 6, we explored the history of resistance and discussed it through conversations about two films: "Gather" and "In Whose Honor?"

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For this class, I was assigned to watch the film "Gather" directed by Sanjay Rawal.

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When I watched "Gather" previous to Class 6, there were a few scenes and moments that specifically stuck out to me. One example of this was learning more about cooking for healing. Doing this helps Indigenous people reconnect with their culture. This is especially important since they have almost entirely been stripped of their beautiful culture. Healing through cooking is one form of resistance because it helps Indigenous people take back their identity. It is also a form of resistance because it hopefully leads to finding more happiness in their culture, which colonizers aimed to take away. A personal connection I thought of when watching these specific scenes is how important cooking and eating Jewish cuisine is to my family. We do this because instead of getting dehumanized and deprived of our culture, we celebrate with the food that carries our history. When I originally watched "Gather" I also appreciated learning about the three different storylines, the community garden, and the traditional foods of Indigenous culture. I was particularly shocked at the part of the film that pointed out how dry the land has become of most Indigenous communities due to colonization. It was quite disturbing watching "Gather," yet it is the unfortunate reality of American society.

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My Thoughts Following the Class Dialogue

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My Thoughts Following the Class Dialogue

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Something I appreciated in this lesson was engaging in dialogue revolving around my group's film, "Gather." I found it interesting to engage in this dialogue because while I walked away from "Gather" with my own thoughts, I walked away from our class conversation with a much more holistic view of the film since I got to hear from other students' perspectives. For example, I learned about the connection of this narrative to other food deserts through our class discussion. This even happens at the local level, like in certain D.C. neighborhoods that struggle to maintain access to a healthy and diverse range of foods. When capitalism came into the conversation because of one of the guiding questions, I was fascinated by what students had to say. In a lot of ways, the issues such as high rates of diabetes, drugs, crimes, and more result from capitalism. This is because Indigenous people often do not value money in their culture like Americans do, so when we colonized, this threw off almost everything in Indigenous culture. There is an obvious issue when drugs are cheaper to buy and more accessible than healthy food, which is why "Gather" emphasizes the significance of embracing Indigenous culture in food when living in Indigenous communities or homes. It is ironic because Indigenous people taught us how to thrive when we first arrived on this land, yet look at how we treat their culture now. Not to mention, many Indigenous people now suffer from increased mental health issues and all of this can be traced back to the cultural genocide that took place and continues to occur. Without my group's discussion, my analysis of "Gather" and this issue would be much more shallow, so I am grateful that my classmates brought so many more ideas to light for me in this collaborative reflection exercise.

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The Socially Constructed Concept of Race

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The Socially Constructed Concept of Race

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The reason that I know that the answer to this question is "yes" is because of my personal reflection of my years of U.S. education. As an education major, we spend lots of time examining the importance of how concepts are taught to students as they grow up through adolescence through adulthood and how that impacts society. Often times, bias sneaks its way into educating young people and helps form how they view others in society. In most of my educational upbringing, I learned that Christopher Columbus was a hero and Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate that. Since I now know better, I am able to identify how easy it is to teach racism and white supremacy, like the notion that Indigenous culture is not good enough. No race is actually "supreme," we just influence our society into thinking that is the case. We choose to fixate on one component of identities (skin color) and discriminate based on that. In "Gather's" case, white people decided that they could discriminate against Indigenous people, even with no real reason aside from white supremacy and continued to take away/change Indigenous culture and commit mass genocide. Although America is often described as a melting pot, we also are masters of taking away individual cultures and shaming for them. I genuinely believe that if America can start by tackling the issue of how race is taught in schools, then we will be on a better path to eliminating many of the societal issues we see today. AUx classes are great examples of that start. In Class 6, we had vulnerable, uncomfortable, and complicated conversations about "Gather" and it was a great learning opportunity for us students to open up our eyes to concepts we likely never noticed before.

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