In class, we spoke about how people of color can sometimes unknowingly maintain the white space. This picture is important because this society tries to pit people of color against each other especially by causing jealousy over having different job opportunities or different wages or by trying to compare their injustices. I think that statement is…[Read more]

This is a picture of the Sentinelese tribesmen who are defending their land from outsiders. The picture was taken after Indian officials attempted to recover the body of an American missionary who was supposedly killed by the tribe. He was supposedly killed after illegally entering their land to try and convert them to Christianity. It’s a sad a…[Read more]

This picture perfectly demonstrates environmental racism found in the water situation in Flint, Michigan. Since Flint has a higher population of people of color and has a higher poverty level, the lack of government response proves environmental racism. The picture reminds me of what we learn about racism in the past in which there were separate…[Read more]

I found our discussion on Wednesday very interesting which is why I chose this picture. Sometimes the government doesn’t do enough to help its citizens, so who else is there to help? I think the wealthy, specifically celebrities, do have enough power to help make a change, but a lot of them don’t. This ties into a comment made by someone in cla…[Read more]

Last week, two of our readings were about schools built near major high ways and streets and how it is affecting the kids’ health. I think this photo is interesting because you really get to see how close some schools are to major freeways. In one of the articles we read, it said that California made a law stating that schools cannot be built w…[Read more]

Monetary reparations were given to Japanese Americans many, many years after the internment camps. But what reparations were given to other minority groups, specifically black people? It even goes way beyond slavery—it includes segregation, police brutality, unjust prosecution and more that black people need reparations for. I chose this photo b…[Read more]

In class, we spoke a lot about how the creation of “the ghettos” was another form of segregation. In Massey and Denton’s “Construction of the Ghetto” article, we learned that ways of pushing people of color into the ghetto began very violently, but later became “less violent.” I think this photo is interesting because it shows the land of Hiros…[Read more]

In class, we spoke about how there were many police officers at Black Lives Matter protests, but no police officers at the Women’s March. We also compared both protests to the story about the unfair treatment of the Mardi Gras Indian tribes. In the article by Lipsitz, the police described the Indian tribes as loud and not supposed to be on the p…[Read more]