This weeks theme of lyrical representation of segregation immediately think of the rapper, Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick has established himself as an artist that raps in a poetic and purposeful manner. Themes of discrimination and injustice have been a signature to his verses. This excerpt is from his song, “The Blacker the Berry”. He puts a dif…[Read more]

This image shows a white woman, Bella, barefoot in the streets of Brooklyn calling the cops on a woman for standing under the doorway during a rainstorm as she waited for her Uber. The woman, while calling the police described the other woman as “pretty old, heavyset, and wearing jeans that were made for a 20-year-old”. The woman who was being…[Read more]

This image shows ingenious petroglyphs that were carved on a rock in New Mexico’s Ojito Wilderness. The art form is shown to be slowly deteriorating until it will no longer stand anymore. In a way, this is representative of our theme of the week in that once this art is gone, there is no standing memory of those who inhabited the land long bef…[Read more]

The slogan mentioned in this poster means that even though segregation was legally ended, it has taken a new form. Our criminal justice system exploits individuals based on the color of their skin and uses the prison system as a form of racial control. Prior to this weeks discussion, I was never truly aware of the harsh statistics and realities…[Read more]

This image shows a group of children from the Chiracahua Apache tribe who were attending the Carlisle Indian School. This school was the first boarding school off of the reservation. As described in class, these students were forced into these schools in order to assimilate indigenous children into the American society. The school’s degrading s…[Read more]

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>This image below shows a member of the Nation of Islam protesting at an NAACP rally in Harlem. His poster reads, “Integration no! Separation yes!”. As discussed in class, members of the NOI believed that separation was the only true solution. Prior to our discussion around the Baldwin piece, I was confused as to…[Read more]

The image shown below depicts the sharp racial division in Hartford, Connecticut as proven from data from the 2010 census. As we discussed in class this week, often times groups of people are often divided racially by highways, bridges, or even just by the road in between the two sides of the sidewalk. This image shows the stark differences in…[Read more]

I remember being in grade school and learning how to sing “This Land is My Land”, completely oblivious to the whitewashing of history that was taking place at such a young age. After discussing the concept of space in relation to race, we have concluded that, in fact, this land never truly belonged to any of us. Then why are we so quick to become…[Read more]

While discussing the idea of white space and the “trespassing” of this space, I learned what white space actually entailed. These were the spaces that were predominantly exclusionary to people of color. If someone of a different background ever dared to try to access these same amenities, they were seen as trespassers. This image shows a once…[Read more]

The image that I chose shows the burning of the Oceti Sakowin camp in response to the pipeline near Cannon Ball and the following eviction of the people of the camp. I first stumbled upon this photo on Tumblr blog that was that was devoted to informing the public about what is actually going on in the Standing Rock camps. They described the…[Read more]

I found this cartoon that I stumbled on while looking into prison labor. The cartoon shows a prisoner with a shirt that prints “slave labor”. This relates to what we discussed in class about how prisoners are being paid only a dollar a day to fight these deadly fires. Some of these prisoners are not even responsible for committing serious crimes…[Read more]

A fire is occurring near my friend’s school, so classes were canceled until after Thanksgiving break. I decided to look up the status on the fire and stumbled across this photo. This image, which was just taken yesterday, shows cars that seem as they were abandoned by their drivers as they were trying to escape the fire in Butte County. The f…[Read more]

This is an image taken at the New Orleans Public Housing Protest. The protest was incited after many families were displaced out of their homes by large corporate developers. This relates to our recent discourse on zoning. The kind of zoning that these individuals were protesting against was exclusionary zoning. In order to limit minority housing…[Read more]

This image shows a group of Caucasian students reaction to the integration of their high school in Alabama. They are described to be cursing at the new students, instead of welcoming them. This was taken on the first day that their school was desegregated. This correlates with what we were discussing in class that even though racial segregation…[Read more]

This image shows a community along a river bank in Jakarta, Indonesia. Above this community towers the skyscrapers of the city, but the area itself is composed of scraps of metals and cloths.  The president of Indonesia once promised to end the gap of wealth in his country, yet this image is just another example of the wealth disparity in the wo…[Read more]

This image depicts a woman of indigenous background in two ways. On the left side, she is shown as a protestor who is being pepper sprayed as she stands up against the construction of the Dakota access pipeline. However, on her other side, a much different image is being shown. We see a hand taking a picture of her while she is in her ancestral…[Read more]