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March 10, 2019 at 11:56 pm #4882
GABRIEL EVANS
ParticipantFor this week’s image, I chose the lyrics from “Oh Freedom”. I chose this song because it truly expresses the post desegregation attitude against jim crow era segregation. The lyrics displays that no matter the outcome of fighting segregation, freedom will eventually be brought.
Source: Golden Gospel Singers
Date: 1997
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March 2, 2019 at 6:28 pm #4504Participant
The image below depicts “South Park Susan” in the state of North Carolina. Two black women were waiting for their car to be jump started by AAA. While waiting, Susan berated the two women and asked racially motivating questions that have no place in a conversation. Ulitmately, Susan turned herself into the police in North Carolina after the video emerged of the incident. The incident illustrates white space because Susan felt that black people in general shouldn’t be allowed in the same vicinity as her. Countless incidents like this captures the negative stereotypes some white people have towards people of color resulting to fear and speculation for minority groups.
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February 24, 2019 at 12:52 pm #4318Participant
The image below shows Horace Albright, an acting director for the National Park Services, signing the name change of Mukuntuweap National monument to Zion National Monument. Mukuntuweap was named after the Paiute Native Americans. Albright changed the name to Zion because mormon settlers were upset with the native name being the official name of the area. As a result, Albright changed the name to keep the mormons in the area happy. The Native American name had been erased to appeal to mormon settlers. Although the original name has been erased, Zion has an area to dedicate its history for visitors to learn.
Date: 1918
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February 17, 2019 at 11:00 am #4095Participant
The image below shows Jason Hernandez, who was given life without parole in 1998, for the conspiracy to disrtibute crack-cocaine. There were 49 individuals related to this sentencing. Three of them were white and only received probation or under a year in prison. This situation highlights the racial bias the justice system has against people of color. Also, Hernadez’s case illustrates the unfathomable sentencing drug related charges have. After reading this article, I wounder if drug related charges should be cut down drastically?
Photo: Can Turkyilmaz
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February 9, 2019 at 10:49 pm #3827Participant
The image below depicts Tom Torlino, a native American attending Carlisle Indian School, in 1882. The picture shows Tom before and after attending the school. Carlisle Indian School was founded by Colonel Richard Henry Pratt. Pratt attempted to erase Native American students’ heritage by implementing western hairstyle, clothing, and speech. The attempt to assimilate Native Americans into separate schools illustrates how white people saw Native Americans as inferior. Racism comes into play here because Native American were assimilated because they were seen as “barbaric”. Pratt believed the only way to take the barbaric nature out of Native Americans, was to segregate them into boarding schools.
Photo: John Choate, 1882 and 1885
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February 2, 2019 at 8:46 pm #3628Participant
The image below depicts the Memphis sanitation worker‘s strike in 1968. Taken by Ernest Withers, the strike was in retalitation of unequal pay and the inability to progress in the work space because of race. Furthermore, there was an incident where two men were killed while working and only given 500 dollars for funeral expenses. The photo demonstrates segregation and inequalitly through the content of the photograph. The division between whites and blacks was so large, blacks had to remind the entire population by stating “I am a man”. Segregation made its way to working men by not allowing people of color to work the same jobs white men were working. This contributed to consistent economic hardship for people of color.
Photo: Ernest Withers, 1968
Source: https://artsbma.org/september-2013-spotlight/
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January 27, 2019 at 12:49 pm #3452Participant
The image below depicts the imbedded division implemented to keep whites and people of color segregated. This photo was taken by Gordon Parks. Parks took this picture and called it “Drinking Fountains, Mobile Alabama”. Jim Crow era segregation kept many activities divided based on the color of your skin. The women shown drinks out of a water fountain labeled “color only”. As we discussed in class about the tactics whites use to keep blacks out of neighborhoods, tactics like the image shown, illustrates the deeply rooted racial system present in the 20th century.
Photo: Gordon Parks/ Jack Shainmain’s Gallery
Image taken:1956
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January 16, 2019 at 5:26 pm #3078Participant
The women in this image is Hilary Brooke Mueller, who was video recorded by D’Arreion Toles in St. Louis. As Mr. Toles, a black man, attempted to return home to his condominium complex, Mrs. Mueller blocked the entrance. Later, Mueller demanded Mr. Toles to show her his keys and what his complex number was. Mueller acted this way because she believed Mr. Toles did not live in the complex. As Toles made his way in, Mueller followed the man up an elevator and eventually to his complex he lived in. After the ordeal, Mueller called the police stating she was “feeling uncomfortable.” This is an example of theorizing race and space because Mrs. Mueller is illustrating that black men and women are uncommon in her space resulting to her belief that Mr. Toles did not live in the complex. Moreover, this encounter depicts the mindset some Americans have of black people not being able to afford the same housing as white people.
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D’Arreion Toles, via Facebook
Date: 13 October 2018
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