For this weeks focus on lyrical representation of segregation I decided to focus on Beyonce’s 2015 grammy performance. Here she performs Take My Hand, Precious Lord; a gospel song dating back to the 1800s, which was also during the the civil rights movement. In her performance, Beyonce stands at the center of all black male choir positioned in an…[Read more]

For this weeks photo share on White Space, I wanted to compare and contrast two separate images. They are similar in nature, both of children trying to raise money for causes by selling hot chocolate or cold water, but the differences are within the public reactions to both. For the little boy, he’s trying to raise money for Trump’s border wall…[Read more]

This week, because we discussed the topic of native exclusion, I’ve decided to branch the topic from nature activities and national parks to another type of societal institution. My photo showcases the appropriation of native culture in fashion, which I think can relate to this topic very well. In the same way that natives are excluded from…[Read more]

For week 6 I’m sharing a photo that I talked about in class. This photo is from an ad where a man is in the shower washing himself with a bar of soap while some happy-toned music is playing, until it slips out of his hand onto the ground. Immediately the music stops, the tone turns dark, and a gruff voice says, “you gonna pick that up?” the next…[Read more]

My photo for this weeks topic, segregation and education, is from a 2013 protest in Portland (where I’m from). The protests were in response to the Portland Public Schools superintendent’s proposals for school closures in a specific area due to “enrollment balancing.” This area, known as the Jefferson cluster, is a grouping of schools which has…[Read more]

My week 4 photo share focuses on the institution of food deserts. This is an incredibly interesting topic when looking at how the racialization of space and continued systems of segregation play into the health effects of citizens in areas affected by food deserts. If you don’t know, haven’t been exposed to this concept, a food desert is defined…[Read more]

For week 3, I decided to use a photo of an excerpt of lyrics from Solange’s song “F.U.B.U.” I think the story she’s telling in this song, and with these lyrics specifically are important to the conversations we’re having in class and directly relate to the current subject of segregation and space being consistently racialized. Solange elaborates…[Read more]

Topically, this weeks content on the radicalization of space reminds me of discourse surrounding a superbowl halftime performance a few years ago. Beyonce performed her then new single ‘formation’ evoking images of the black panthers and Malcolm X, and afterwards was criticized heavily by conservative news outlets. Particularly I recall Rudy…[Read more]