I chose the song “Hold you Down” by Childish Gambino for this week’s theme.  There is a portion of the song where he goes into how there is a ‘one size fits all’ mentality when it comes to the criminalization of black youth.  White kids are given the right of individuality and personality while black kids are all seen as one type (criminals). I t…[Read more]

The image I have chosen is of Representative Mark Meadows at the Michael Cohen hearing. In this image he is clearly distressed and uncomfortable because Congresswoman (who is a woman of color) Rashida Tlaib called him out on using a black employee to prove that Trump is not racist. Her exact words were “The fact that someone would actually use a…[Read more]

I chose a picture of some indigenous elders in Texas standing in solidarity with the Sioux community  at the Dakota Access Pipeline site in 2016. This whole issue is a perfect example of native exclusion because it shows how corporations and even the government work together to forcefully take away land from natives. I think it is also important…[Read more]

I think that this cartoon fits really well with the theme of mass incarceration because it so accurately shows how most of the black and brown men in prisons, are in there because of nonviolent offenses. It is also really ironic because the media and politicians criminalize black and brown men as violent and dangerous when in reality, the so…[Read more]

This image is of a rally outside of the Arkansas state capitol to protest Brown V Board court decision. The context of this image is that these white individuals are protesting specifically against the Little Rock Nine and their admission into Little Rock High School. This image stood out to me because one of the signs says “Race Mixing is…[Read more]

This image is of a movie theater in Leland, Mississippi in 1939. This photo goes along with the theme of segregation because this theater serves people who are “c*lored” as the photo states. What I find interesting is how in white facilities during this period, there are billboards and signs that say “NO C*lored” or “Whites ONLY”. This use of the…[Read more]

When I saw the theme for this week, my mind immediately went to thinking of modern examples of segregation. The school to prison pipeline is a striking example of this where children who go to schools located in poorer communities of color are disproportionately more likely to end up in jail. The structural disenfranchisement of these communities…[Read more]

In our readings and discussions in class this past week, we talked about the idea of the “Pure American Space” and how its existence requires the genocide of “impure” populations. Rather than sharing this space, the moral geography of the white spatial imaginary requires the complete genocide and removal of people of color from the land in order…[Read more]