For this weeks photo share, I decided to share this art piece by Melanie Cervantes, a Xicana artist that specializes in depicting the art of indigenous movements. In this piece below, she depicts an indigenous woman fighting for her land and her life. In our class discussion on #NoDAPL, we talked about how it was mainly women who were at the…[Read more]

For this week’s photo share, I decided to share an except of lyrics from Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam” song. This song is just one of Nina Simone’s many acts of activism during the Civil Rights Era, in which she took it upon herself, as a Black, female singer to speak out against the injustices and segregation that she witnessed. In this…[Read more]

For this week’s photo share, I decided to focus on the importance of “ally-ship” when it comes to the #MeToo/#SayHerName movement. This online focused on the idea of intersectionality when it comes to movements like these–where the individuals who are targeted not only suffer due to their race but also their gender. In this piece, they also…[Read more]

For this week’s weekly photo share, I decided to share an image of an individual who contributed to CNN’s “Where are you REALLY from?” project. In class, we discussed the implications of individuals moving through a white space and how white folks feel the need to engage in a narrative with an individual by asking black or brown folks where they…[Read more]

For this week’s photo share, I decided to share this picture from an ad by Pepsi, featuring Kendall Jenner. This commercial ad in particular received a lot of backlash because it portrays Kendall Jenner diffusing a particularly tension-filled protest with handing someone a Pepsi. This ad came out right around the middle of the Black Lives Matter…[Read more]

I chose this picture for this week’s photo share because it shows Emmett Till–a young boy that was killed in a Mississippi national park, near the Mississippi Delta. This relates to the topic of national parks having an origin in deep racism, and I believe this is the kind of “mental reparations” that Ta-Nehisi Coates stated in The Case for…[Read more]

For this week’s photo share, I decided to choose an image that hits a little bit too close to home for a lot of us at UCSD. After the discussion on segregation in education this week, I decided to see how our university pales in comparison to the segregation in schools that we discussed this week. After seeing that our university only contains a…[Read more]

For this week’s photo share, I decided to share the album cover of Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah. Erykah Badu goes along with our theme of hip hop and rap artists using their music as platform for social activist movement. In this album, Badu speaks on the various ideals of living in America as a woman of color, and the idea of the “American d…[Read more]

I chose this photo for this week’s photo share because of our in-depth study of the Black Panther party. In the class, we mentioned how the Black Panther party is the reason that schools have the “Free and Reduced lunch program” and I did not know that previously. I appreciate that we discussed the Black Panther party in regards to the Civil…[Read more]

For this week’s photo share, I chose this photo depicting a Black women in the living room of her home. As one can see, the wall behind her is broken down and falling apart. In the picture, she is holding a gin that states “This is our slum lord’s house”, showing a typical “all-American” home that is in good condition. In class, we discussed the…[Read more]

For this week’s photo share, I chose this photo from the Bandung conference, briefly mentioned in Malcolm X’s speech: “Message to the Grassroots”. In this conference, various officials from different ethnic backgrounds in order to promote diplomatic unity in the face of the Cold War. I believe Malcolm X was intentional in mentioning this because…[Read more]

For this week’s photo share, I chose a photo from the newly released film, Sorry To Bother You, a story about Cassius Green, an African American man living the United States, who moves up in a telemarketing company by “sounding like a White man” over the phone to his clients. I chose this particular scene because this is the time in the movie w…[Read more]

I chose this file because Time Magazine did a piece reflecting on the black soldier during the Vietnam. The rate of black soldiers drafted into the Vietnam war almost doubled that of white soldiers and their death toll was also twice as high than that of the white soldier. A quote in this article by a black general said that he deemed “fighting…[Read more]

I chose this photo because this week we talked about the role of space in the definition of space and briefly watched a video on the creation of the suburb. I found this photo interesting because it is a newspaper ad for Levittowns in the United States during the 1950s. The tagline reads that the new homes will be “suitable for any wage earner”…[Read more]

I chose this photo for the theme of trespassing, because there has been a long and horrific history of allegations of trespassing on seemingly public spaces. This picture of children carrying a sign containing the message “free the beach” reminded me of the story of the Black man being arrested in a Starbucks due to him simply “looking like he…[Read more]

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I chose this photo because it shows one of the more violent protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Here the protestors are protesting against police officers in a stream near the Standing Rock Indian Reserve in North Dakota. I find this scene particularly horrifying, especially due to the pepper spray being…[Read more]

I chose this photo because I found it absolutely horrific that THIS is how the President chose to treat the victims of Hurricane Maria. I found what we were learning about this week in lecture particularly interesting, because of the fact that we can so easily lose sight of our own citizens and disregard them based off color (in the case of…[Read more]

I chose this photo because it portrays a young woman crossing Grant Avenue in San Francisco’s historic Chinatown. I found this striking because of the history behind the creation of Chinatown that we learned about–a history of racial injustice masked behind zoning laws and “less-violent” forms of structural racism. This being said, it seems as…[Read more]