I feel the chosen image depicts the topic of white spaces and trespassing. In the reading “The White Space”, Elijah Anderson defined the white space as an overwhelming presence of white folks and how people of color, especially black and indigenous folks, are seen as trespassing and unwelcomed within this space, however people of color can also…[Read more]

In “What Standing Rock Teaches Us About Environmental Justice”, Jaskiran Dhillon discussed how the Sioux people would call themselves “protectors” rather than “protestors”. The Sioux are protecting their water from being contaminated from the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, for the land is under their control and not of the United…[Read more]

This image depicts how certain communities are more effected by natural disasters, because of poor infrastructure and lack of resources. In this photograph, a man is standing in a pile of what used to be his neighborhood after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017. Due to the United States not providing the resources and systems that continue to…[Read more]

Although it has been 60 years since the times of Jim Crow, this image of a tear between the white child and the black child unveils how present segregation is in today’s society. School are said to be just as or if not even more segregated. Those who live near charter schools are predominantly white, while those who live by public schools in poor…[Read more]

I chose this photograph to highlight the hypocrisy of the United States fighting against tyranny in Europe and how some African Americans chose to go to war rather than to live their lives in segregation and continuous discrimination. In this week’s article “The Case for Reparations”, Ta Nehisi Coates gave the story of an African American man…[Read more]

Although Brown v Board of Education called for the integration of schools during the 1950s, this image shows the effects of resegregation even after this case. This graph records the decline of Black students attending predominantly white schools within the South as time passes, which ultimately proves how schools within the South are segregating…[Read more]

European settlers came to America in hopes of escaping the corruption of their home country, however instead of sharing the land they “discovered” with the Native Americans, their mentality was to occupy the land through “conquest, genocide, and Indian removal to produce the scared ground” (Lipsitz 14). I interpreted this cartoon as even though…[Read more]