The image I chose for this week’s photo share demonstrates some of the ideas discussed in DiAngelo’s piece, “White Fragility.” DiAngelo explains how language is coded for whiteness, i.e. “I want a good school” is nearly synonymous with “I want an all-white school.” On that note, I would like to point out the poster held by the young boy on the far…[Read more]

The image I picked shows a 2017 protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline. I chose this specific image because of the sign in focus that declares “Water is Life” and how this ties into Wolfe’s emphasis on the different ways in which land is life to different communities. He writes, “Land is life—or, at least, land is necessary for life. Thus c…[Read more]

The image I chose for Week 7 shines light on the idea of racial capitalism. Specifically, this image shows the quote, “You can’t have capitalism without racism” by Malcom X on a cardboard sign at a “Mike Brown solidarity vigil/demo.” I chose this image because although the term racial capitalism is new to me, this idea is not. Discussing this…[Read more]

The image I chose for this week’s photo share is an illustration depicting one facet of environmental justice. The POC illustrated are standing in front of a home, and one figure had their hand up to the wave about to swallow them up in a way of saying “No. No more of this environmental injustice.” What stands out to me about this image is that…[Read more]

The image I chose for this week’s theme “Segregation and Its Hazards,” shows young students protesting at a climate rally in San Francisco earlier this year. I chose this image because one thing that stood out to me from the three articles we read for Friday was the fact that children are being unfairly trapped in hazardous environments at the…[Read more]

I chose this political cartoon by Walt Handelsman (2000) because it ties into our conversation in class regarding reparations, the Confederate flag, and the rewriting of history. One of the biggest arguments regarding preserving the Confederate flag is the sense of pride tied to it in Southern history. Yet, as my peer mentioned in class, this…[Read more]

*Warning — nature of language in photo is vulgar and racist*

The photo I chose for the Week 3 photo share is a picture of a racist letter sent anonymously to an Asian American realtor, Winnie Wu, in Vancouver.

The letter reads:

“Open letter to [redacted] and all other asian realtors in our cities.

Ch**ks and g**ks are not welcome or wanted i…[Read more]

I chose this image for this week’s theme because it is an explicit example of the racialization of space. Although the image does not capture the ways in which this sign has societal, cultural, and historical impacts, it does portray the brute determination of whites during the time period of segregation to purify their communities and living…[Read more]