I would like place the “To Pimp A Butterfly” cover art in the conversation of trespassing. The album was released in March 15, 2015, which touched upon themes of racial inequity, depression, African-American culture, and more. In the art cover, a group of primarily black males pose in front of the White House. In our current time, with the…[Read more]

In our class we have discussed the colonial logics that operate and support the North Dakota Access Pipeline. This pipeline is projected to carry oil from North Dakota to Illinois. As mentioned in class by Professor Kharputly, the pipeline had spilled before it is scheduled to be operational. The colonial project is one that is full of greed that…[Read more]

The picture that I choose for this week is interesting because it ties the water crisis in Flint, Michigan with the national Black Lives Mater (BLM) Movement. In the picture there is a couple of people with shirts that read ” Flint Lives Matter”. This is a direct and parallel quotes to BLM and they are both connected at many levels. The Flint…[Read more]

Hurricane Maria is a natural catastrophe that has deeply uprooted and unmasked the imperial and colonial, still ongoing, history of Puerto Rico. The colonial/imperial project of the United States is deliberate project that has placed its power many of the countries in this continent. Puerto Rico has a unique position to the US, however, throughout…[Read more]

Los Angeles, California is one of the busiest cities around the world, which attracts financial and commercial capital. The immensity of this city has a historical genealogy that traces back to colonial periods. However, these ways of organizing under colonial logics and projects still continue to heavily impact policy, structures and people. In…[Read more]

The topic that I would like to write about this week is the contradiction and the flawed system of health in the US. I connect this to the idea of reparations because our health should be a core of when we theorize and make steps towards reparations. In the south part of Los Angeles, I have witnessed the construction of DaVita Dialysis Centers,…[Read more]

The picture that I want to show here is to depict the blatant racist rhetoric against Mexicans, or those with Mexican ancestry, in Texas during the late 19th and 20th century. These were signs posted in public spaces such as  restaurants and parks. Under the Jim Crow laws, these types of actions became sanctioned by the state. However, in the…[Read more]

In this image, there are young children and adolescents playing football in the Lennox neighborhood, which is next to the Los Angeles International Airport ( LAX). As we have discussed in our class, land is inextricably connected to race, class, gender, health, hxstory, and life. Our environment is deeply imbedded in the process of racialization,…[Read more]