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Assignments: Experiential Learning (EL) and Service Learning (SL) Project
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Assignments: Experiential Learning (EL) and Service Learning (SL) Project
Assignment 1
Recently, I joined an online panel discussion organized by CUNY, "Childhood Asthma
and Environmental Racism," where the presenters discussed how children living in low-income
neighborhoods are affected by environmental degradation. The mentioned events highlighted
how aspects including poor quality in terms of air quality, toxic environment, and fewer health
facilities enhance high incidences of children with asthma existing in these regions. Better
attention was paid to Puerto Rico, where environmental pollution and viral infections worsen the
asthmatic situation. Such disparities were singled out to be occasioned by racism, and therefore
the organizers of the event stressed the need for structural changes as well as support in the
society to eradicate these problems. This discussion was essential to better understand how
environmental racism cross regional health issues, further emphasizing the need for special
programs to enhance the health status of the affected groups.
Assignment 2
Police brutality against Black people is getting a much-deserved social backlash with the
formation of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. At the core of BLM is intersectionality,
a concept that explains how Black individuals, especially Black women, Queer people, and the
poor, experience prejudice in a more severe way due to the cumulation of bigotry founded on
intersectionality like race, gender, and class. This framework does go a long way in extrapolating
the prevalence of police brutality as well as the manner in which racism is systemic in the fabric
of the society (Thompson, 2020). Such testimonies showed by BLM activists denote that the
atrocities by the police are not a product of a couple of culprit police officers but reflect the
system. As to this issue, the Society needs to change alongside with the policing, which means
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that the issue cannot be solved solely by changing the policing practices, for the roots of racism
are deeply rooted in the Society. Therefore, intersectionality can be defined as a vital way of
getting insights into the multi-faceted, and frequently overlooked aspects of people attacked by
police, thereby contributing to improved intervention efforts.
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Reference
Thompson, D. (2020). The intersectional politics of Black Lives Matter.8Turbulent times,
transformational possibilities, pp. 240–257. https://books.google.co.ke/books?
hl=en&lr=&id=P8bhDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA240&dq=Police+Brutality+Black+Li
ves+Matter+Intersectionality&ots=O6gm6248bw&sig=xR1ZjlrjcVV8vOrlalsdQm6kySc
&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Police%20Brutality%20Black%20Lives%20Matter
%20Intersectionality&f=false