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assignment 9

Race relations issues, suggesting poverty, race, and economic discrimination would be resolved by the political economy that created it, only this time would they be assimilated with politics.  This is an example of how people of color have already been ostracized politically and are still in the process of becoming assimilated. This just gives us an idea about how difficult it was for straight people of color to be included politically, which can only give us an idea about how difficult it would be for queer people of color.

The people who fall under the minority categories (ie…people of color, women) face more difficulties in their lives. They feel a type of estrangement towards people of their groups, for example, a black gay women might feel alienated in a group of other black straight women. Even though they are all black women, her sexuality is something the other straight women feel comfortable with, causing her to be ostracized. Identifying the domain determined by racial difference and gender and sexual conformity causes the rank of superiority. Because of this ranking if you don’t identify as one of these dominant traits, then it will be more difficult for you socially, politically, economically.

In this documentary “Transgenders in Pakistan”  I learned for the most part about transmen. They are kicked out of their families onto the streets, causing them to form a transgender group of their own. Within this group, most of the transmen are ostracized by their “gurus” (head of the group).  Ferguson’s text reminded me of that because it shows an example of how within groups (that are already oppressed groups) there is even more oppression, which causes them to estrange themselves from their bigger community.   In this case, they were left no choice to be alienated, however, some people chose to do it themselves for own personal reasons, in order to achieve their own comfort levels.