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The photo I decided to use for week 9 is of Jackie Robinson accomplishing a home run in a game against the Boston Brave in 1948. The reason I chose this image was that Robinson was a very historical figure due to the barriers he broke during a segregation era. When Robison was a baseball player he dealt with so much racism, and showering separately than from the rest of the baseball team is only one example of the barriers he faced. He, however, was still able to challenge the notion of the white space through his accomplishment as an athlete. His activism was also seen when he refused to sit in the back of a bus during his time of the military, as he challenged segregation and refused to feel as if he was a trespasser in this country. Robinson’s experience on the military bus is an example of how people of color are usually made to feel as if their problems are less valuable than those of white individuals and the mainstream variations of racism such as the perpetuation of unequal distribution of privileges.

Source:  The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jackie-Robinson

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This photo captures the deforestation that was caused by the palm oil companies in Santa Clara de Uchunya. In this deforestation lies unfair actions since the indigenous community members that inhabit this place were not able to keep their ancestors land due to a lack of legal papers for all of the acres. This reinstates the focus we touched in class in which the nation tends to focus primarily on money, land, and profit rather than other significant factors within populations, and the violence and sense of villainry that comes from colonialistic actions.

Photographer:  Mathias Rittgerott

Source: World Resource Institute “As Indigenous Groups Wait Decades for Land Titles, Companies Are Acquiring Their Territories”

https://www.wri.org/blog/2018/07/indigenous-groups-wait-decades-land-titles-companies-are-acquiring-their-territories

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The photo I chose for this week is one that demonstrates the color of the water that was not just flowing through the Flint neighborhood but a hospital located in Flint. It is appalling to think that those who are ill must also suffer and receive contaminated water given the understanding that their immune system is already low. I chose this water because this reintroduces the severity in which people are treated as disposable.  When Virginia Tech University testes the water, the deemed it as a high public health issue since it had a high risk of creating pathogens due to the “acceptable levels” of bacteria that were already in the water.

Source: Michigan Radio, Title: Searching for a Potentially New Problem in Flints Water

http://www.michiganradio.org/post/searching-potentially-new-problem-flints-water

 

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The photo I decided to share, encapsulates the egocentric thoughts and actions that were taking place after the Katrina Hurricane devastation. From this, we can see that after the hurricane occurred, many people were still using the location as a means to travel, for their own benefits rather than using allowing the area to heal and reconstruct what they have lost. This picture is also able to demonstrate the large disparities that existed the surrounding moments. The fact that tourist have the money to continue traveling but not to provide any basic necessities for the individuals that were affected by the natural disaster, and comparing that to the state of the residents there (such as the wish list prompted in the back of the photo which asks for basic necessities the community may need in order to function), actively resembles the difference that lies in the socioeconomic status of the country. This SES difference is what often leads to environmental racism.

Source: https://foundationbeyondbelief.org/news/combat-natural-disasters-acts-god-10-years-later-hurricane-katrina-levee-failure/

Samantha Montano

Date: August 26, 2015

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The photo I chose for this week demonstrates the project developments that occur in many communities of low income. Project developments do not occur in all neighborhoods, they are commonly seen along with other pollutants, in communities that have fewer resources. It is actually very common that when comparing similar project developments in two different communities, the projects that are finished much quicker efficiently, are those that are done in communities that are predominantly wealthy. And the communities that have more minorities and people from a low SES will be done at a slower pace. This in result causes inequity as minorities are exposed to more pollutants, which in the long run affects individuals health.

 

Source: The Atlantic: How Zoning LAws Exacerbate Inequality

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/11/zoning-laws-and-the-rise-of-economic-inequality/417360/

Photographer: ERIC RISBERG

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The image I chose for this week demonstrates segregation that has occurred through voting right. I chose this image to represent often unseen segregation, and since voting season has arrived,  I was reminded that one of the ways in which segregations continues to occur in today’s day is through limiting voting rights to certain populations through creating barriers for individuals that belong to a certain population. Through the image we can see that the people whom are holding a ballot are people of color and the hand on top seem to belong to someone whom is of lighter skin color. In this weeks reading by Coates, we learned about different ways which people were robbed their belongings and one of them was through limiting their voting rights as barriers were created for people of color and those in low-income communities to keep them from becoming politically involved.

Photographer/artist: Katie Martin

Source: The Atlantic: Voter Suppression is Warping Democracy

Date: July 17, 2018

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The photo I decided to share for week 3 was taken after the desegregation that occurred after the Brown vs Board case in 1954. Once desegregation occurred and children of color were able to attend the similar school that white children were able to attend, some children along with their parents, did not believe they would receive the same education as they have previously received. I chose this picture of the three boys silently protesting, to demonstrate the stand white individuals took in order to end desegregation in schools. From this we are able to see the boundaries that were formed against people of color. This picture also demonstrates some actions that were used in order to remove people from their homes. Although we did not discuss such actions in class, the severity of discrimination faced by these school children is very similar when compared to the discrimination that was faced by migrants when they were seeking a place to move into but instead found themselves only being able to move into the ghetto since it was due to structural inequality.

Source: CQ Researcher

Photographer: AP photo

Date: August 27, 1956

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The image I have chosen for this week clearly depicts the effort of a tribe in counteracting the effects of development. As we have discussed in class, development projects that are lead by colonization result in tribal communities becoming displaced from their long-lived lands. Although this picture represents a tribal community in India, it properly portrays the displacement issues that tribes face due to development. I chose this picture because it demonstrates the degree of protesting that some tribes may participate in, in order to convey their message which in this picture is through silent protesting. Another reason that I chose this picture is because it also demonstrates the different types of richness that are embedded behind the land. For the communities, the land is rich in natural resources such as soil, water, and forestry. While developers see that land as rich because of the possible financial opportunities that may arise from modernization.

 

Source: Issue and Challenges of India

Tribal Displacement in the Name of Development

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