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The photo I chose for this week’s photo share of “trespassing” is a photo of Yale University and of Lolade Siyanbola’s student ID. Siyanbola is a black graduate student at Yale who was napping in her dormitory common room when she was reported to campus police. When the officer came to the common room, they interrogated her saying, “We’re in a Yale building, and we need to make sure you belong here.” Then Siyanbola’s question of “Who does and who doesn’t belong,” connected with me with this week’s discussion in the fact that who determines whose space belongs to who. This made me think about Elijah Anderson’s article “The White Space,” where he stated that black people in white spaces often feel that they need to be, “‘on’, performing before a highly judgmental but socially distant audience” (Anderson 14). His whole article describes the difference between black and white spaces. In white spaces, white people question the presence of black people in “their town” and ask about their business or why they are there.

Photographer: Lisa Larson-Walker

Date: article published on 5/11/2018

Source: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/on-being-black-in-the-white-space-of-yale.html

 

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The photo I chose for this week depicts a large crowd with a bright red sign with bold letters “Defend the Sacred”. What I found most interesting about this website and this photo in general is that they never mentioned that they were protesting, but in fact that they were protecting the water. This reminded me of our discussion this week about Standing Rock and how the government refuses to recognize the needs of others and how they could simply use their land for profit or because it provided them with a quick and cheap alternative.

Source: https://www.nodaplarchive.com/

Photographer: Unknown

Date Published: Not Stated/Unkown

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This photo I chose for this week is a cartoon illustration that demonstrates the water poisoning in Flint, Michigan. I was completely dumbfounded to learn that GM reported that their engine parts were actually rusting from the corrosive water in the Flint River, but the government still allowed the water source to switch from the Detroit River to the Flint River. The fact that large metal pieces were being rusted never raised any red flags that people should not drink lead infested waters amazes me to imagine their corruptness. In San Diego, I have the option to freely drink water from the tap, but in Flint something as simple as drinking water was stripped away from the residents and to this day is not 100 percent fixed yet.

Source: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/01/26/cartoons-flint-michigan-water-crisis/

Photographer/Illustrator: Nate Beeler / Columbus Dispatch

Date Published: 26 Jan. 2016

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The photo I chose for this week shows the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and how the government did not properly provide any relief to the victims, such as the children shown in the picture. The article written by Bryan K. Bullock, the source of this photo had a quote which stood out to me stating, “White environmentalist talk about saving the rainforests, but no mention is every made of saving the lives of those who dwell in America’s concrete jungles.” This quote resonated with me because it described the hypocrisy of the government providing aid to only certain communities, but not within communities of color. As stated in this week’s readings, the government neglected to provide any relief to certain areas in Puerto Rico during Hurricane Maria, or even in the main continental area in Louisiana.

Source:  https://libya360.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/reviving-the-fight-against-environmental-racism/

Photographer: Unknown

Date published: 11 March 2015

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The photo I chose for this week’s theme, “Segregation and its Hazards,” shows a water fountain in a Camden school district building with a label that clearly states “Please do no use”. This photo stood out to me because it demonstrates how there is a large segregation within the education system that is negatively inflicting the current and future generations of this country. In Oliver Milman’s article entitled, “Air pollution: black, Hispanic and poor students most at risk from toxins – study,” he argues that the air pollution is connected with the multiple physical and mental health problems that is found in more black, Hispanic, and low-income students than any other populations. It’s shocking to me that the higher authorities approved to build an Early Childhood Education Center in Camden County when it was previously a chemical dumping site. It was only until 2006, that the extremely high levels of arsenic scared them into demolishing the site and rebuilding it in the same spot with only a single layer of soil excised. Even so, with extreme levels of arsenic, they still initially approved the construction and excising one layer of soil isn’t sufficient enough to be deemed as safe. Also, the fact that most students in Camden are used to buying water bottles is shocking to me because there is a dangerous amount of lead within the drinking fountain. It makes me think about the difference between Camden and San Diego, where I can grab my hydroflask and fill it up anywhere on campus, but across the country in New Jersey, it is more difficult to obtain water.

Source: https://www.wnyc.org/story/camden-nj-students-also-have-drink-bottled-water-after-report-found-high-levels-lead/

Date: 8 Feb 2016

Photographer: Sarah Gonalez/WNYC

 

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I chose this photo for this week because it demonstrates how segregation occurred in many aspects of life. From different schools, to even something as small as a drinking fountain. As stated in the Coates’ reading, even after being freed from slavery, there wasn’t complete freedom. In the South, Jim Crow laws prevented any equality and racial integration while in the North, legislation and manipulated realtors increased the racial borders with the production of the ghetto. As Coates’ stated, “Now we have half-stepped away from our long centuries of despoilment, promising, ‘Never Again.’ But still we are haunted.”

Photo: “A sign in Montgomery, Alabama, showing separate drinking fountains for blacks and whites”

Photographer: Unknown

Source: http://www.african-american-civil-rights.org/jim-crow-laws/

Date: I couldn’t find the exact date this photo was taken and the date on the sign faded away, but from what I could read it said “July 14th”

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The photo I chose for this week is provided by the National Archives and Records Administration, Mapping Inequality and is titled “The 1938 Home Owners’ Loan Corporation Map of Brooklyn”. This photo shows the red sections deemed as “dangerous” neighborhoods and homeowners living there wouldn’t receive any loans, and even the yellow section neighborhoods adjacent to the red sections, would not receive as much loans as compared to the blue and green sections because they were still close to communities of color. The photo depicts how segregation was enhanced and even legalized further by realtors, bankers, and authoritative figures. This New York Times article written by Emily Badger, states that the government sponsored Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) would provide financial aid to “every” resident, as long as they were within the top ranked sections. Every bank and realtor would rank the areas with communities of color to be section D, “the red section”, this became known as redlining. As stated in the Massey reading from this week, programs such as the HOLC didn’t create the racial barriers, but they used government authority to further enforce it. By implementing these programs, it stopped the direct violent attacks, but in no way did it lead to any positive progression.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/upshot/how-redlinings-racist-effects-lasted-for-decades.html

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This photo entitled, “A man takes a photo during Banff Indian Days, 1957,” (unknown photographer) depicts a White family taking pictures with “The Stoney”, who was the indigenous population that resided and hunted in the Banff National Park before it became a tourist destination. In fact, The Stoney were forced to leave their homes when the park opened because the park superintendent, George Stewart, argued that the Stoney were “stragglers” and were disrupting the land through their hunting. The only time the Stoney were allowed back onto the land was during the annual Banff Indian Days, where tourists paid for dancing performances, “war whoops”, and archery demonstrations. I chose this photo because it reminded me of our discussion about the Lipsitz reading and the concept of “Pure American Land”. Even though it is called “Pure American Land” and this photo took place in Canada, it can be seen that the exploitation of Native populations in creating the perfect vacation destination occurs world wide as well as in our own communities.

Source: The shady past of parks Canada: Forced out, Indigenous people are forging a comeback. Library and Archieves Canada. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-shady-past-of-parks-canada-forced-out-indigenous-people-are-forging-a-comeback. Web. 13 Oct 2018.

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