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March 10, 2019 at 2:06 pm #4779Breana ParksParticipant
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 white passing black man he is less likely to say it publicly and more likely to get shamed for saying it. I thought this related to the discussions in class of who has the right to say it. I know as a biracial black person, I learned not to say it even though my dad or black family members would. He explains that the world is culture, I don’t totally agree with that but I do know that word is a part of our history.
Breakfast Club
LOGIC
2014
https://revolt.tv/videos/logic-talks-word-recollects-family-experiences-2bbc1e15
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March 3, 2019 at 8:52 am #4535Breana ParksParticipant
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 be relevant to the topics we talked about this week as many of us sometimes have to change the way we act to navigate a space.
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Pixar/ LinkedIn
2019
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February 24, 2019 at 7:52 am #4299Breana ParksParticipant
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 ethnic breakdown of the people who attend these parks and their ages. The article was very interesting in how they described camping and referenced much of the things we talked about in class like socioeconomic differences that make it harder to go camping.
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https://newrepublic.com/article/114621/national-parks-popular-white-people-not-minorities-why
2013
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February 16, 2019 at 10:39 pm #4073Breana ParksParticipant
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 state prison a small portion of people are convicted for selling drugs–1.3 Million people in the state person system it has barely lowered down since 2017.
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Prison Policy Initiative
2017 & 2018
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February 8, 2019 at 10:44 am #3788Breana ParksParticipant
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 raped”. She was snatched from her family in 1972 and was physically and sexually abused within the school while being forced into Christianity and English language. I chose this photo because when we think of Canada we think of peaceful people, while it does contain a dark history that performed a form of cultural genocide.
1940
Photograph: Reuters
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February 3, 2019 at 9:54 am #3659Breana ParksParticipant
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 ethnic background, but it has only been 52 years since people were allowed to marry who ever we want. According to the podcast, Heightened Scrutiny said this “the Supreme court crumbled the last major pillar of Jim Crow era”–I thought this quote was interesting as we usually think of Jim Crow was limiting access to space, not realizing marriage is among those spaces.
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1967
https://scrutinypod.com/episodes/2017/3/22/episode-3-loving-v-virginia
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January 26, 2019 at 12:13 pm #3372Breana ParksParticipant
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 instance Tish found a place but when the owner found out she was with another black man he said the place was sold. Later in the film, they were able to find a studio owned by a Jewish man, of course the two characters thought there must be a trick in to why they were given the home. I believe these two moments relate to our reading for this week because how hard it was for this couple in the 1970s to find a home, and not be tricked by real estate agents. And as we talked about how Jewish and Black people were not allowed own homes in La Jolla in the past, this is a good comparison to show that the two groups in the film helped one another progress.
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Meet the Real-Life Sculptor Who Made Art for the Oscar-Nominated Film ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’
Annapurna Pictures
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January 17, 2019 at 7:17 pm #3090Breana ParksParticipant
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 for those looking to rebuild. Areas of the Bay Area are still affected by this, as certain areas are marketed to be more appealing to renters or business owners thus making other places lose business.
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University of Maryland’s T-RACES project
1937
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