Weapons of the Weak - Scott // Race Rebels - Kelley

Weapons of the Weak
Peasant rebellions and everyday forms of resistance.
My initial thought was about how passive aggressive this form of resistance is. It's like when there are unwashed dishes filling up the sink and no one has washed it yet so you leave a sticky note with a very sarcastic looking smiley face on top of the pile. But little things add up over time and eventually the problem will become bad enough for someone to notice, step up, and do something about it.
Second thought was about stereotype reinforcement.

Race Rebels
Everyday resistance to everyday struggles. In this case, young minorities working in the fast food industry, such as McDonald's, committing, what seems like, civil disobedience. If you don't pay close enough attention, or are simply just unaware, these small demonstrations of rebellion may seem exactly that - acts of rebellion and disobedience. But as Kelley says in his paper, these acts of disobedience, small and not very dramatic in the broader scope of resistance, are still significant. Significant in that they represent a struggle many young, working minorities face and their fight against it. There is never any action done without a cause.
I've never had a job, so the acts of rebellion or resistance I've experienced were mostly school related. I would sometimes skip a class or sneak off campus during lunch to go with my friends to get some boba or egg tarts from the small market area a block from my high school. Sure, everyone must have done this once and it doesn't seem that significant, but considering - now I know what I am about to say is a stereotype but honestly - that my friends and I were all Asian, at the top of our classes and known well enough by our teachers and staff, no one would have expected such acts from us. And we'd use that to our advantage most of the time. If we were caught, we would either be let off with a warning or not get any punishment at all. It's like hiding out in the open. We used our "Asianness" as our greatest weapon against the authority in a sense.