I wasn’t able to be in attendance for this weeks discussion on White spaces but based on other photo shares I decided to share a picture of Abigail Fisher, a white student who sued University of Texas in 2013 over beliefe that through affirmative actions her spot at the university was taken from her by an underqualified Person of color to increase…[Read more]

For this weeks photo share, I decided to share a photo from the organization “Outdoor Afro”. SImilar tot he organization mentioned in class earlier this week, Outdoor Afro aims to strengthen the connection between Black people in the US and their relationship and access to the outdoor through hosting various outdoor activities like camping,…[Read more]

This picture I chose this week was from the TV show empire, the scene is where one of the main characters Cookie Lyon is arrested and as she is put in the car she yells ” if I die in police custody I did not commit suicide”. I chose this because I remember watching Empire and just relaxing on one of my off days when I saw this scene and its ob…[Read more]

This weeks discussion made me think about segregation and the realities of people who are forced to live in historically segregated areas made me think about my own experience here in San Diego and made me think more specifically about because of segregation, Places like Southeast San Diego have been and in ways are predominantly filled with Peo…[Read more]

This week we touched on discussions from the readings, specifically on how white settlers envisioned the Americas of this ” pure” land that was seen by them as free space to embark on and because of its purity and it was seen as something they were entitled to own and cultivate. This idea of the new world I also feel like and it was mentioned in t…[Read more]