In Global Citizen, I found this picture in a very interesting article that shows that rights are still not recognized to the LGBT community in the United States and therefore that battles continue to have to fight.

We can see: the right to be parents, the fact that in some states still children can be sent to “gay conversion therapy”,…[Read more]

This week we read the story of Jose Antonio Vargas as undocumented in the United States. In this hard article he tells how he lived in a state of constant fear since he knew he was undocumented. Although he felt American, the United States did not consider him as an American.

It shows the harsh situation that millions of people are living in the…[Read more]

This week we read in class the text Deportation Policy and the Making and Unmaking of Illegal Aliens by Mae Ngai. We discussed in class mainly the importance of the terminology and the great difference between Illegal alien v / s undocumented individual. We talked about how we are territorial people and we read in the text “The quota laws…[Read more]

In 2017 President Donald Trump issued an executive order called: Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States. This Travel Ban suspended the USRAP and the entry of people from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Syria.

After the travel Ban against certain countries with Muslim majority citizens published on February…[Read more]

This week we saw in class the story of Fred Korematsu, an American citizen of Japanese descent who opposed being locked in concentration camps in EEUU.
In 1942 the president of the United States Franklin. D Roosevelt issued an order to lock up all Japanese citizens and their descendants in what they called relocation camps. There were 10…[Read more]

This is a picture of James Baldwin and Maya Angelou.

Maya Angelou was a poet, writer and activist of American civil rights like James Balwin. She received many awards and recognitions. Especially for her first autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. This autobiography is important as it was one of the first times that a woman of color…[Read more]

This is a picture of Malcom X with his sister Ella Little. Ella Collins was one of the most important women in the life of Malcom X. After her father died and her mother was admitted to a mental hospital Ella Collins and her husband Jack Collins became the legal guardians of Malcom X from the 14 to 21 years old. Ella was on many occasions the…[Read more]

Moise Morancy is a New York photographer who made a set of portraits in response to police abuse suffered by African americans. There are several self portraits in which you can see him dressed in different ways but always with the flag and a rope around his neck. His message is: “No matter what your profession, how successful you have been in the…[Read more]