SOCIAL CHANGE ENGAGEMENT essay

It was a wonderful moment that we all waited to go and see many things that we had learnt about in class. The selection of the museum as our site visit was great since we had been learning about the African and American culture and their relation to our class. At the Museum, we got divided into three groups each assigned their learning objectives. We toured the museum in a different section with a combination of both black and white students. We engaged in dialogues about the naming and the aspects found in the museum in relation to our lives today and how it was in those olden days. According to chapter 4, on “Race Matters,” the issue about race in the United States has been in existence since those days of the slave trade, and even now it continues to play a bigger role in the definition of different aspects in life.

It was clear from our group selection, and the black students seemed to feel the pain while the while students enjoyed the scenes without taking into consideration the pain and suffering those people had undergone through during those times. Even in our class work, the aspect of discrimination was always discussed, and a section of the white students seemed not bothered by the fact that these were also human beings who were being denied and discriminated against certain life aspects. According to chapter 6, “Sexuality Matters,” the museum also related the lives of the women and especially the African American women in those times. They were considered people of less importance and could only be found within the household chores context and not in any authority.