Lisa Delpit "The Silenced Dialogue"

 

Reflection

This reading was really dense and confused me at first but for the parts that I understood, it was shocking to see the culture of power written out. I feel like we all know these things exist but to see them in a reading with examples was really interesting. These 5 points that Delpit touched upon really made me think about my own schooling experience because there really was so much power that the teachers had over us and there was these rules that aren't really said put loud but everyone is just expected to follow them. This made me think back to a teacher I had in fifth grade who really enjoyed the power she held over us and was very mean and strict even though we were just children. She once wrote me up for something that was very stupid but she did it just because she was the one in charge and she was able to write me up.

Alan Johnson Privilege Power and Difference

 Connections:

For this reading I have decided to make connections because as I was reading I noticed a huge connection between what we are learning about in social work 324. 

In the reading, Johnson talks about the diversity wheel and there is even a picture of it and how you can look at the diversity wheel and find things to describe yourselves all around it. The point of the exercise Johnson mentions is that the wheel does not show you much about individuals but mostly just goes to show how society shapes people.

I make this connection to my social work class because we are looking at intersectionality and we are actually creating our own identity wheels! We read two articles this week in social work 324 that connect to Johnson's reading because they go deeper into diversity and identity and I thought it was great that I got to make that connection.

This is the wheel we looked at in my social work class!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akOe5-UsQ2o

AMAZING TED talk on intersectionality which I think helps connect to this weeks reading.

*In class I would love to share the connection between the two classes and how in Johnson's article there was a section on the diversity wheel talking about a persons identity and how in my social work class, we are creating our own.

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