The photo portrays a protest against Trump’s executive order for banning Muslims from traveling into the US. In the picture, there is a White man holding posters which express that “immigrants are America” and signifies that America consists of immigrants. However, it is more correct to refer to most people living in American soil are immigrants a…[Read more]

I stumbled upon this short video while I was scrolling through Facebook one day and it really impacted me. Because no recording devices are allowed inside immigration courtrooms, Linda Freedman worked with the public interest firm Immigration Counseling Service from Oregon to create a reenactment to display just how difficult it was for children…[Read more]

I chose this image because it depicts African American citizens in city hall protesting “Flint Lives Matter.” I chose this image because it demonstrates that the citizens at Flint are considered “expendable.” As we have discussed in class, the lives of these people are not valued because they do not have any “value to capital.” Images, such as…[Read more]

Source: https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/07/30/undocumented-immigrant-is-a-made-up-term-that-ignores-the-law/

Recently illegality is the term used by the media when describing undocumented immigrants. The term illegality links a negative connotation to anyone who come to this country no matter what their intent is. The photo I chose this week,…[Read more]

Illegality has become more of a weapon in recent years to criminalize and dehumanize individuals even if they are undocumented immigrants or asylum seekers. This form of weaponization leads to discrimination against those who desire to seek asylum in America, because they are ripped of their civil rights that are owed by the country’s…[Read more]

The photo I chose for this week is one that demonstrates the color of the water that was not just flowing through the Flint neighborhood but a hospital located in Flint. It is appalling to think that those who are ill must also suffer and receive contaminated water given the understanding that their immune system is already low. I chose this…[Read more]

I believe it is very important to discuss the fact that due to the US’s policy of the War on Terror, the federal government basically legalized any forms of racism against a particular (albeit not by law, but the social effects indeed were very frightening.) For example, the capture or the kidnapping, and the torture of dozens of people who look…[Read more]

For this week’s photo share I decided to spice it up and select a political cartoon. It is an extremely simplistic image with a very deep message. Dreamers are people that were brought into the country at a young age (undocumented), but on a path to obtaining their legal status. The cartoon seeks to point out that with Trump in office, many…[Read more]

For contrast I am posting a photo of the military prison in Iraq; Abu Ghraib (dogs being used to intimidate prisoners) and a photo taken during the US civil rights movement of dogs being used in a similar/different manner.

The use of dogs speaks to the dehumanization the perpetrator (the State) is foisting upon the victim (POW, citizen). As…[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]

This weeks photo share is an image taken of a protestor one year after Katrina hit. She is carrying a sign that states, ” Stop Evicting Katrina Survivors” and the reason for this is because after Katrina hit people saw it as an opportunity to remove people of color from these communities and so called whitewash the neighborhoods. So rather than…[Read more]

This picture is from Hurricane San Zenon that hit Santo Domingo in 1930. This hurricane left the people of the Dominican Republic weak and susceptible to a violent dictator that arose from this catastrophe and ruled the Dominican Republic for thirty years. I was researching this regime for a different class, but while doing some research I came…[Read more]

This week’s focus on Islamophobia reminded me of the discussion we had surrounding internment camps and how modern day genocides are masked as being not as monumental as events such as the Holocaust. This topic, for me, tied into how humanitarian crises in the East, particularly in Muslim-majority countries, are oftentimes overlooked by Western…[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]