<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>This week, our discussions focus on the LGBT group and their right to marriage. Based on what we learned in class, there are two images that I want to share for this week’s topic. The first photo exhibits a group of protests celebrating outside the Supreme Court after hearing that the Court struck down the Defense o…[Read more]

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>This week we continued to discuss about illegality and civil rights. The image I chose is a fictitious driver license for an undocumented Mexican immigrant in California. The address indicates Los Angeles but the title of the license specifies “Mexifornia” instead of California. Also, the date of birth of the imm…[Read more]

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>From our class discussion and the reading “Deportation Policy and the Making and Unmaking of Illegal Aliens”, we learned about the disparity between the desirable and undesirable immigrants. When I read the article, I had similar questions about the U.S. Border Patrol as the author Dr. Ngai, “How did the offic…[Read more]

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The sarcastic caricature is from the article “Guess Who Concocted the War on Terror Doctrine Before 9/11?” from The Freedom Articles. It depicts a U.S. government officer stamps “terrorist” on every baby that comes from Gaza, a place with riots and chaos (as the cartoon portrays). The caricature satires the legaliz…[Read more]

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Our discussion this week focused on the internment of Japanese Americans</span><span style=”font-weight: 400;”> during World War II and centered on the key activist Korematsu. The picture that I chose reveals a group of Japanese-American residents that were forcibly evacuated to an internment camp. They were waving…[Read more]

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Our discussion about James Baldwin’s “Letter to My Nephew” on Friday reminds me of this picture I saw a few years ago. In the photo, an African American boy was surrounded by a group of white policemen. From his expression, we can sense his confusion and fear. The picture is from the article “8 Insightful Suggest…[Read more]

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The image is a meme from the Instagram of mortallivinggod, an account concerning about African Americans’ rights and justice. It demonstrates the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X with the subtitle “the system behind their deaths did not care that they were of different religions or had dif…[Read more]

The image is from the article “America has locked up so many black people it has warped our sense of reality” from The Washington Post. It depicts the hands of a prisoner (an African-American) holding onto jail bars, similar to the cover of Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow. The caricature reveals the mass incarceration of the black…[Read more]