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I chose this image for this week because it demonstrates how black people are treated when they occupy a white space. In Oakland, California, a white woman called the police on a black family who were barbequing at the park because they were not using the right type of grill. Cases, such as this, make us aware of how we treat people of color differently in a predominantly white space. If this family was white, this woman would not have called the police on them. The stigma that people of color are dangerous and cause problems in the “white space” is prevalent and ongoing in our country. Capturing images of cases just like this woman calling the police for a family barbequing is necessary for us to see and understand so that we can spread awareness of the mistreatment and racism we cause to people of color. The problem of trespassing is not “outsiders” trying to take over a white space, but white space systematically discriminating and segregating people of color.
Source: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/woman-calls-police-oakland-barbecue_us_5af50125e4b00d7e4c18f741
By: Carla Herreria
Date: 5/11/2018
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I chose this image because I thought it reflects what we have discussed in class, that Puerto Ricans are not considered Americans, even though they are Americans. Puerto Rico was hit by an “unnatural natural disaster” because the lack of resources and aid that the U.S. neglected to provide for them. This hurricane was inevitable, but because of the physical state the country was in (due to years of infrastructure and government neglect), Puerto Rico was hit hard and many homes were destroyed. The U.S. government’s failure to respond to citizens who were devastated by the Hurricane demonstrates “environmental racism” in the U.S. This picture stood out to me because we can clearly see people trying to hold each other together while the land around them is covered by water, and even then they are still considered “second-class citizens”.
Photographer: Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo
Date: Sept 27, 2017
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The image I chose this week stood out to me because you can see children playing on swings, but the air around them is full of pollutants. This relates to what we have discussed this week, that schools are exposed to hazardous toxins, yet we have not done anything to solve this problem. We see that the schools are near freeways, filling the air with hazardous particles, which children are continuously exposed to almost everyday. The children who are most affected are minority children. As seen in this image, 2/3 of the children are African American, demonstrating the racial disparity in the public school system. This image shows the reality of the conditions children are forced to be in, yet they cannot escape because they need to go to these schools.
Source: https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/school-haze/
Artist: Allison McCartney
Date: February 18, 2017
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I chose this image for this week because it brings up a key topic that we have discussed in this class: reparations for the injustices African American people endured in the past. As depicted here, a cartoon drawn of mostly African Americans are holding a sign: “I.O.U.” as a call for reparations. As we have discussed in class and in the reading by Ta-Nehisi Coates, reparations may be a step in the right direction of compensating for racist acts from this past. Reparations may not just mean money, but may mean a change in racist, physical structures, or even a change in our attitude of the past. What I have taken away from this image and our discussion in class is that as Americans, we must take responsibility for the racist institutions that have affected African Americans.
Illustrator: Peter Laban
Date: April 9, 2018
Source: http://inthesetimes.com/article/20982/reparations-movement-for-black-lives-history-justice-healing-United-States
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