VAGABOND, West and Hook

In response to Clem's post, I love the example you have provided regarding colonization in history. While we can list many different ways to argue Otherness, we can all agree that one of the biggest "Self" vs "Other" is through our skin color.

“Reading the Other” and "Race Matters" both discuss the importance of willingness to transgress racial boundaries. Hooks encourages biracial encounters to overthrow the dominant white hegemony in an attempt to challenge the racists.

In Peace & Conflict, we discussed the different types of peace: positive and negative. Positive peace consists of stable peace whereas negative peace has underlying issues such as racial inequality, poverty, unemployment...etc. Because poverty and social issues are not familiar with facilities and regulations, lacking the examination problem on the structural problems rather than focusing in on one specific example that ignores other relevant events or taking on one specific political position that is determined by a predisposed point of view.

I agree with what Devon was saying, instead of posing “them” (African Americans/other minorities) against “us” (the dominant hegemony), we must unite to understand ourselves as “we” – a collective unit that works together in synergy rather than in opposition or our socioeconomic structure would collapse at the lack of coherent society.