Hist3510
Tracy Penny Light
Oct 8th,2017
Reading Analysis 5
With being a resident of British Columbia and being of First Nations descent is seems as if I only get taught about the education of BC. This mainly focuses on what happens in history with the first nations. But there are more sides to the way the people were treated in their education upbringing. Which I learned a lot about with this week’s reading. This was how other minorities felt about trying to get an education.
There were two articles on the way Black people were treated when trying to get an education. Hearing the stories was quite upsetting. Finding out that they had to fight in order to get an education. And when they got an education they were treated horribly which made them not even want to have an education. Also how they were too abused and called names from not only the teachers but the students too. I know is this were the case for me going to school I would have not wanted to attend either. But thankfully there were people out there that stood up and said something so those children could get an education. It may have taken a lot but it was those who finished school and went further that proved to the other people of their race that if they could get through then they could too even if it was painful in the end. But the way the blacks were called out, hurt, treated differently and had everything bad happen to them so they didn’t want to go to school was wrong. Thankfully someone stood up for their rights and made it so black children didn’t have to go to a separate school just to get an education. And those who nagged and nagged were the reason something was done.
But there was not only the Blacks that were treated horrible in the education system but the Chinese were too. They were almost treated the same way, put in horrible situations that made getting an education difficult. They also had to stand up and fight for them to be able to learn things as well. It was those who said something and put on strikes that made a differences.
Without those people fighting, people of colour today would not be able to have an education. This was because the white people didn’t want them too. It may have seemed hard for them but in the end it was definitely worth it. What really surprised me was it’s not only the First Nations who are discriminated from getting an education but the blacks and the Chinese seem to have had similar problems with trying to be educated. I am sure that any other minorities go through the same problem with anything as white people feel they should not always have the same rights. Why is this, are they afraid of them, are they threatened by them? Who knows? Thankfully things have changed a little but there is still racism out there. Will this race divide ever go away? Why can’t all people just get along no matter what gender, race or class they are? I’m sure no one really knows but it sure would be nice to know as then it could possibly be fixed. Although I do feel that school today has changed with the race divide but I do believe and know for a fact that minorities can feel singled out and discriminated in school as I felt this way when I went to public school.
Bibliography
Knight, Claudette. “Black Parents Speak: Education in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Canada West.” in Sara Burke and Patrice Milewski (Eds.), Schooling in Transition: Readings in the Canadian History of Education, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012: 225-237.
Stanley, Timothy J. “White Supremacy, Chinese Schooling, and School Segregation in Victoria: The Case of the Chinese Students’ Strike, 1922-1923.” in Sara Burke and Patrice Milewski (Eds.), Schooling in Transition: Readings in the Canadian History of Education, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012: 237-252.
Moreau, Bernice. “Black Nova Scotian Women’s Experience of Educational Violence in the Early 1900s: A Case of Colour Contusion.” Dalhousie Review 77, no.2 (1997): 179-206.