My Capstone Project Is A Set Of Five Free Verse Poems

My Capstone project is a set of five free-verse poems that include one of my own experiences as an Asian immigrant. Poems are a way to express and convey a thought or belief into short, original, and creative literature. In my DOC capstone, I chose to write a couple free-verse poems from different point of views and of different racial views. Using five different races, I depicted the hardships of the time in order to display a creative point of view of the minority groups in the United States. Utilizing DOC terms, there will be deep analyses of intersectionality, dominant ideology, racial formation, emergent ideologies, and residual ideologies. The main purpose of my project is to provide the true hardships many races suffer due to the emergent, dominant and residual ideologies of white supremacy, struggles of immigration, and the struggles of racial formation. In the first verse, I convey to the readers that when hegemonic ideals, what people consider common sense on how to act or think towards a certain idea, become negative and violent, such as white supremacy, towards a race, it becomes extremely threatening and disturbing. Throughout United States’ history, the violence and struggles the African Americans experience are universally known. In the first verse of the poem, I put the point of view as an African American child. In the United States, there have been many forms of racial violence and hatred, especially with the United States being a strongly white