Source: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2016/10/20/dakota-access-pipeline-colonial-violence-runs-through-it.html

Date: October 20th, 2016

Photographer: Unknown

One notion that resonated with me during our class discussions regarding Standing Rock was the idea of no absolute translation or meaning between different languages.…[Read more]

Source: Becoming Unbecoming Una Therman

The photograph is from the graphic novel Becoming Unbecoming by Una Therman. The novel tells the story of the author, Una, who is a sexual assault victim who navigates life as a ‘survivor’ while coping with the shame. To illustrate the structuralist bias against victims of sexual assault in a parallel to…[Read more]

Source: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/black-lives-matter-all-lives-matter

Date: July 19, 2016

Photographer: Scott Barbour

In class we discussed how ‘All Lives Matter’ is a blatant disregard to ‘Black Lives Matter’ social movements, as the term diminishes each races’ particular set of hardships. Specifically, the term exercises colorblind…[Read more]

Photographer’s name: Unknown

Date: 1969

Source: ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu

After witnessing a strike at SFSU, protesters established a Third World Liberation front at Berkeley that  focused on studies of minority groups. The strike at Berkeley was one of the longest and most violent ones in United States’ history, but resulted in four und…[Read more]

Source: https://www.ocregister.com/2015/03/27/update-rapper-immortal-technique-arrested-accused-of-robbing-t-shirt-vendors-outside-santa-ana-concert/

Date: March 27, 2015

Photographer: Orange County Register

To focus on this week’s theme of The Afterlife Civil Rights Movement: The Hip Hop Generation, I decided to share a mugshot of rapper I…[Read more]

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/10/love-knows-no-borders-agents-arrest-32-as-religious-leaders-gather-at-us-border

Date: Dec. 10, 2018

Photographer: Unknown

I wanted to touch on the importance of our classroom discussion that took place on Friday regarding racial solidarity. The photograph showcases white religious l…[Read more]

Parsing the Data and Ideology of the We Are 99% Tumblr

When the Civil Rights movement is brought fourth, we as an American society tend to collectively embrace the unsubtle leaders, while forgetting the everyday characters who are just as significant in the fight for equality. A more recent social…[Read more]

N.W.A on March 23, 1989: Ice Cube, far left; Eazy-E, center; standing from left, DJ Yella, Dr. Dre and MC Ren. (Douglas R. Burrows / Los Angeles Times). https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-nwa-parental-discretion-20171205-htmlstory.html

The image depicted above further exasperates the class theme of the week ‘leaders of a…[Read more]