I very much enjoyed this class. Sociology is my major, and there is this rumor that your required classes are the worst. But honestly? This was my favorite!

I feel I did average to well in this class, I participated and put all my effort into it, the only thing to really negatively effect my grade would be the second paper that I was not able to complete.

I learned how to detach myself from subject, analyze other peoples perspective, and look deeper than surface levels. This part was very difficult for me. In my academic career, my greatest strength had always been my writing. I had thought it was just because I was smart and had a way with words, but this class showed me that it wasn’t just that.

The reason I did so well was because I write how I speak. I am argumentative and factual, and I speak in prose as well as opinions. This cannot always be applicable in Sociology. Sociology is a study of people, and personal biases should not be applied 100% of the time. I had to learn how to look at things from the sociological perspective and not rely on my wit.

Writing the essays, however, was a different thing.

Field Negro Reflection

Field Negro was difficult for me. I have always wanted to examine issues that effect me and my people, but I feel like I bit off more than I can chew. I wanted to look at how we as a people are faceted against each other after slavery. The mentality we developed as a coping mechanism, evolved into a means of oppressing each other and dividing ourselves.

However, this is only an undergrad, freshman paper, and I wanted to go into much depth within my writing. The more research I did, the more I wanted to turn this into a project to another one of its own. I started to see the statistics, the numbers and the data of the actually socioeconomic divide that exists, and the numbers of those who effect it and I just came to the conclusion that this was bigger than one paper. I want to study society in terms of how it effects those of African descent, and did not want to rush that or force the content for something that I actually cared about.

The Black Creative

With The Black Creative , writing came easier to me and it was a simpler subject. Yes I had a personal connection, but I felt that I could meet the requirements and still give the subject the justice it deserved.

The issue that I had with this paper, is that it was rushed. I emailed the artists, 9 of them, in early April. Only two got back to me. Becky, and Dawud. The youngest and the oldest of the people I interviewed. Marcus agreed, but got caught up in work so I used the website he has to collect information. All the artists I reached out to agreed, but as we artists do, they procrastinated and I could not postpone the entire paper because of it, so I had to work with the little bit that I had.