For this week’s photo share, I chose an image from the film Hidden Figures. The image is of Taraji P. Henson (who is portraying Katherine Johnson) as she is surrounded by her white male coworkers. Katherine Johnson was a mathematician that was instrumental in helping to get Alan Shepard, “the first American man in space) to space. I thought thi…[Read more]

This is a picture from the protest that occurred against the Dakota pipeline. It illustrates the role water played in the protest, and how part of the protest was because they feared the pipeline would contaminate their water source. We now see that they were correct and they lack clean water. This picture also brings us back to what we have…[Read more]

Pulido defines racial capitalism as “existing capitalism that exploits through culturally and socially constructed differences such as race, gender, region and nationality and is lived through those uneven formations” (Lowe 2015, 149–150). The maquiladoras in Tijuana or Juarez are a perfect example of this idea of racial capitalism. The corpo…[Read more]

This picture is from Hurricane San Zenon that hit Santo Domingo in 1930. This hurricane left the people of the Dominican Republic weak and susceptible to a violent dictator that arose from this catastrophe and ruled the Dominican Republic for thirty years. I was researching this regime for a different class, but while doing some research I came…[Read more]

This picture is from Hurricane San Zenon that hit Santo Domingo in 1930. This hurricane left the people of the Dominican Republic weak and susceptible to a violent dictator that arose from this catastrophe and ruled the Dominican Republic for thirty years. I was researching this regime for a different class, but while doing some research I came…[Read more]

In Stringfellow Acid Pits, was a toxic waste dump in Jurupa Valley, California. In the 80s, it became the center of national news because it was making Jurupa Valley one of the most polluted placed in California. The waste dump was intermixing with the water and harming the residents of Jurupa Valley. Students at Glen Avon Elementary school, which…[Read more]

The cartoon is a depiction of the role slavery played in the foundation of Georgetown University. Georgetown University was founded by Jesuits, a group whom as the article describes as having owned a large number of slaves. The slaves as the articles tells, were often sold to the south were living conditions were harsher than the ones they were…[Read more]