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After revising my topic and question from the last assignment, I have decided to still center my topic around the Justice for Janitor movement and focus on immigrant’s agency and collective resistance that has significantly changed working class politics. Through the mobilization of labor unions and grassroots community organizations, these communities have found them to be the most effective way to fight exploitation and acquire living conditions for their families. I have added a second piece to my question where I not only work to answer how the immigrant working class has became the most politically active in the U.S but also analyze the discourses of anti-Mexican and the demonization of Mexican populations and their effect on the conversation …show more content…

2014, p. 1. Academic OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&u=lom_kalcoll&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA365955940&it=r&asid=d8a50e8458640ae12268ec43e5904a96. Accessed 8 Feb. 2017.

This Op-Ed provides insight on the discriminatory issues Janitors experience in Tufts University by the administration. It also demonstrates how, alongside students, Janitors organize within their labor union to fight for the protection of their hard-earned contract with their contractors. This Op-Ed also sheds light on the systematic ways in which administration pacifies Janitors by acquiring to their demands while simultaneously increasing their workload and assignments in the workplace.
This Op-Ed is a good resource for my own research because it helps me feel comfortable to have an example on how I could possibly structure my Op-Ed. At the same time, the argument in this piece is crucial to my investigation relating to how labor is discussed in the U.S, specifically in a college campus, today.

Wilson, A. C., & Bird, M. Y. (2005). For indigenous eyes only: a decolonization handbook. Santa Fe: School of American …show more content…

McCarthy, T.L., & Littlebear, R.E. (2013). Language planning and policy in Native America: history, theory, praxis. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.

This book makes evident the importance of language planning, language education, and language policy for diverse Native American peoples. Based on long-term collaborative and ethnographic work with Native American communities and schools, this book examines the artifice of colonial language policies against the current community lead efforts to revitalize threatened native languages.
The arguments and frameworks presented throughout this book are crucial for my understanding of “Language as Political” for which I will use to understand effective ways of perpetuating community resistance in a positive manner in which long-lasting and effective solutions are created.

Massey, D. S. (2009). Racial formation in theory and practice: The case of mexicans in the united states. Race and Social Problems.

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