The lyrical representation of segregation I chose for this week is the song “They Don’t Care About Us” by Michael Jackson. Although the song was controversial at the time of its release and accused of being anti-Semitic, I still believe some of the lyrics to this song relate to the topics we discuss in class. The song is about racism and declaring…[Read more]

For this week’s photo share I chose a picture from a Quartz article (https://qz.com/1320154/bbq-becky-permit-patty-and-pool-patrol-paula-how-memes-and-humor-can-combat-racism/) that discusses the memes that have been created aka “BBQ Becky”, “Permit Patty” and “Patrol Paula” as modern day tools to combat racism. All of these incidents follow the…[Read more]

I chose this photo from onedio.com’s article called “The Racist History Behind America’s Famous National Parks”. This photo was taken in 1864, depicting the start of the eviction of the Ahwahneechee people from Yosemite. This is a sad photo because these native indigenous people are being forced out of their own lands just because somebody like…[Read more]

I chose this photo taken in 2017 from Eji.org, a website that actually discusses mass incarceration, children in prisons, and racial injustice. This photo depicts bunk beds lined right next to each other, and shows how cramped these prisoners are. There is barely any space to walk around, and people are practically sleeping an arm’s length away…[Read more]

I chose this picture from the newspaper The Chicago Reader, this particular article printed March 1, 2016. This photo depicts a 21-year-old Bernie Sanders being arrested in Chicago while protesting school segregation during a time in which black people did not get the same educational rights that white people did.  This particular incident is k…[Read more]

I chose this photo in response to this week’s theme of segregation from The Washington Post’s article where they discuss how America is more diverse than ever these days but still very segregated. The different colors on the city map (yellow = Hispanic, blue = black, red = white) show where each ethnicity live within the city. Chicago is the least…[Read more]

I chose this photo from The African American Policy Form’s article called Segrgation to represent this week’s theme because it clearly depicts the separation between whites and colored people that was so heavily enforced from the 1870s to the 1960s. There were many examples of how colored people were discriminated against, from unequal housing opp…[Read more]

This week ‘s theme revolved around the ideas of race and space, shown in our discussions in class and the readings we did at home. I chose this photo because it clearly represents the divide between white people and colored people during the era of Jim Crow Laws. Even in public spaces like waiting rooms, where people usually just sit in peace and…[Read more]