For this week, we talked a lot about white fragility and white space. I picked this cartoon for this week because it reminds me of the discussions we had in class about how white can benefit from being white even if they don’t have that intention. This image talks about the defensive nature when people are getting called out about racism. It’s…[Read more]

For this week, I choose this image to reflect on what happened with the #NoDAPL, this image is captured of the people protesting for the Sioux from other part of the country. I choose this picture because I found it ironic that people are using tents and camps and industrialized equipment to protest for the reservation of nature. I felt like we…[Read more]

From this week discussion, I think this picture would fit most of what we are talking about. The thing that struck me the most was when we discusses people of color at Flint being “disposable”. Hence why I picked this picture. The political cartoon depict the kind of water people of color get vs. white. Since their skin has different color, their…[Read more]

For this week, I chose a political cartoon depicting today’s politicians’ view on climate change and natural disasters. Climate change is real, but these politicians do not acknowledge it. In a way to what we read about this week, I feel like denying climate change is a big factor that help play a role in environmental racism. Denying the very…[Read more]

This is Linda brown from Brown V Board of education case. This case is pretty well known so I will skip the introduction. But I picked  this picture because of we related segregation in school and that kind of remind me of this. I find it ironic how its more than 50 years later we’re still having the same problem with serration at school. This…[Read more]

This image is today South African’s apartheid depiction. I picked this image as a representation of this week’s segregation theme because of the juxtaposition of land usage. The image series listed below(in the guardian link there are more) show the use of land, road, and even terrain are used to separate people. We often don’t see the barrier…[Read more]

The image I chose is from an abandoned amusement park in the middle of Ohio. I chose this image to relate to the topic of how we human choose to see and utilize land. I relate this photograph to Wolfe’s land is life idea. The reason is, as we can see, nature has taken over our abandoned attempt of using land as a resource to help our…[Read more]