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Breana Parks replied to the topic Week 9 photo share in the forum Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 4 months ago
For this weeks photo share I wanted to share this video from Breakfast club a radio show. In the video, the artist known as Logic who is biracial talks about the usage of the N-word. He says he only says it in private, which I think is interesting since other performers like Drake who are mixed get to say it out loud all the time. Since logic is a…[Read more]
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Breana Parks replied to the topic Week 8 photo share in the forum Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 4 months ago
On LinkedIn this week I saw a video from Pixar about diversity in the workplace. The workplace was a white male dominated space that forced a yarn ball, that’s supposed to represent women or people of color as having to adapt to an environment to be accepted. In the end the yarn ball stands up to the men on the work place. I thought this would b…[Read more]
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Breana Parks replied to the topic Week 7 photo share in the forum Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 5 months ago
For this week’s photo share, I read an article called “white people love hiking Minorities don’t here’s why”. In the article it references the website you mentioned in class called Things White People Like—which they use to tell us about how white culture has made sleeping on dirt more desirable and expensive. The photo I chose gives an ethn…[Read more]
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Breana Parks replied to the topic Week 6 photo share in the forum Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 5 months ago
In this weeks photo share, I wanted to share this photo from the Prison Policy Initiative that give a pie graph that breaks down the numbers of people within the prison system. I first saw this graph last quarter for the 2017 breakdown. It astonishing that more than 70% of the people in person are non-convicted, just waiting for trial. And in the…[Read more]
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Breana Parks replied to the topic Week 5 photo share in the forum Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 5 months ago
The photo I chose to share for this week is from an article about Canada confronting their past history. The photo comes from the residential Indian schools many children were forced into in Canada. In the article, a women discusses her experience in these residential schools, “I was thrown into a cold shower every night, sometimes after being…[Read more]
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Breana Parks replied to the topic Week 4 photo share in the forum Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 5 months ago
The photo I chose is of the couple Mildred and Richard Loving, who’s supreme court case legalized interracial marriage. In class we discussed some of the Hallmarks of American citizenship, one of them being marriage. Although marriage is an important hallmark to Americans and it is so common for us to have relationships with people outside our…[Read more]
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Breana Parks replied to the topic Week 3 photo share in the forum Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 6 months ago
This image comes from the 2018 film, If Beale Street could talk inspired by James Baldwin book. A subplot of the film involved the relationship between Tish and Fonny and their life before Fonny’s wrongful conviction. In the film, as they were searching for an place to live, Fonny said that they had a hard time looking for a place, in one…[Read more]
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Breana Parks replied to the topic Week 2 photo share in the forum Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 6 months ago
This is shows the redlining of Oakland and other cities in the Bay Area during the 1930s. Redlining was a concept and practice that was made during the Great Depression to encourage people to own homes in areas were foreclosure had occurred. This practice makes certain spaces more valuable to banks than other as well as make them more marketable…[Read more]
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