For this week’s topic on lyrical representation of segregation, I chose a segment of a song by Lupe Fiasco called “Hurt Me Soul”.  In this song, he touches on welfare and health care policies, which have all been, in some way, shaped by the institution of racism. He also mentions other outside systemic forces that create a culture of poverty and…[Read more]

For this week, I wanted to share a story from an article titled ” White Woman Claims to Confronts Racism by Creating Racist Yoga Event; Clearly Doesn’t Understand How Racism Works”. This very recent headline deals with a white woman by the name of Pat Brown who wanted to start a yoga group for only white women, where they can gather and have a…[Read more]

This picture I have chosen is of a map of Yosemite National Park that was illustrated by an artist in the 1940’s. This map shows little animations to highlight sections of the park but what is really the highlight of the map is that the National Park Services uses the indigenous people and their symbols to advertise certain areas of the park…[Read more]

For this weeks topic I wanted to talk the School-To-Prison Pipeline. An Ohio woman by the name of Zakiya Sankara-Jabar recently dealt with this when her preschool son, Amir, was suspended from his pre-K program. The claim for his suspension was that he was having problems focusing on activities and transitioning from one to the next and he was…[Read more]

The picture I have chose for my photo share is of a charter school on UCSD’s campus called the Preuss School. I wanted to talk about this because I know that many people at our school are unaware that we have a connecting middle and high school directly next to us, sponsored by our university. This school is a middle through high school for…[Read more]

This week I chose to look at some political satire on the Black Lives Matter movement that has been happening across the United States. This picture is of a comic strip that is commenting on the idea of white people saying “All Lives Matter” in response to this movement. When I saw this, it initially affected me because of how ignorant that phrase…[Read more]

For this weeks post I have included two picture showing the racial segregation of Washington D.C. throughout the past couple of decades. The first picture shows the population of Washington D.C. in 1990 and the second picture is from 2016. The blue dots represent blacks, red dots represent whites, green dots represent asians, yellow dots represent…[Read more]

The picture I have chosen is an example of voluntourism, which is something that we talked about in class, but I wanted to look through the internet and find some concrete examples of these types of pictures. The plethora of content that I found was honestly astonishing. This specific picture was from a parody show that highlights the reasons why…[Read more]