after 9/11, airport security increased out of fear of another terrorist attack. As a result, Changez was stopped and searched.

Due to differences in language between people of Latin countries and those born in America, the Chicano identity was created

As a Dominican-Republican male, Yunior was expected to behave a certain way in order to fit in and maintain his popularity.

Tomkins' piece describes the different effects of shame as well as what it is internally and externally

In the scene where Maurine takes the girls to the ice cream shop, Claudia was embarrassed that Maurine didn't buy them ice cream and she felt shame for thinking that she would.

Hooks uses the word "ghosts" when referring to racial melancholia and white supremacy

"In white supremacist society, white people can 'safely' imagine that they are invisible to black people since the power they have historically asserted, and even now collectively assert over black people, accorded them the right to control the black gaze."

Pecola, like many others in her community, was ashamed of her dark features and wished to look differently in order to feel accepted and beautiful

The black people were being auctioned off to the white people so they could take over their bodies by pushing down the black people's consciousness

fear exists among oppressed groups, regardless of how safe it appears to be.

Brave Orchid worked hard her whole life to cope with the losses she had dealt with, like her children. moving to America was her way of escaping her past but it silently followed her.

Freud explains the difference between mourning and melancholia. he describes melancholia as a sense of loss but not knowing what caused it.

Bloch states that hope only leads to dissapointment just as Pecola hoped for blue eyes even though it would be impossible to wake up one day and have her brown eyes become blue

the narrator experience racial melancholia because she did not feel fully chinese like her mother and felt culturally separated from americans due to her family traditions

both Black father figures were loved and hated by their children. The fathers wanted to protect their children but had a unique wa fo showing their love.

the excerpt talks about Maxine Hong Kingston's works because they are exemplary of life as an asian immigrant suffering from racial melancholia and forced assimilation.

"Queerness is that thing that lets us feel that this world is not enough, that indeed something is missing."

"melancholia describes an unresolved process that might usefully describe the unstable immigration and suspended assimilation of Asian Americans into the national fabric."

The father's fear of white people led to his death and acted as a cautionary tale for the son.

Both are centered around riots (Harlem and LA) due to racial injustice

Both pieces are centered around fear in Black people

Fear overtakes people and makes them vulnerable. it can be felt by anyone without provocation.

Changez chooses to go back to Pakistan and become an activist against the war

Nussbaum uses Aristotle's teachings to explain that anger is inefficient and serves no purpose

Srinivasan acknowledges Nussbaum's belief in anger but believes anger is suitable for certain situations instead of no situation

Srinivasan believes anger is only acceptable if it is reasonably justified

the opera singer feels she cannot do anything since she is old but remarks that if she were younger, she would be yelling along with the other rioters

ACT UP's usage of anger to promote action would be considered a justified way of using anger because the benefit outweighs the cost

Both pieces show the different ways AIDS were brought to people's attention

Gran Fury recaps the different art movements they enacted to promote awareness of AIDS

as a result of the King assault, riots broke out in Los Angeles because people wanted justice.

People were able take their grief for those who were victims of AIDS and changed it to action to prevent more people from dying

Ahmed mentions how societies make promises to attract people, the same way Changez was attracted to American promises but later realized the trick.

"so it is better to speak/ remembering/ we were never meant to survive"