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March 3, 2019 at 11:48 am #4549Denasia GainesParticipant
When talking about white spaces, I believe it goes beyond that of just suburban areas or old plantations but we often times forget about universities and the fact that they were white spaces and a lot of times still considered white spaces. Although a lot of the institutions first created on Native land, they were white only spaces that deemed education something that is elite and only allowed for white people. This led to the creation of Historically Black Colleges and Universities so that Black people could access higher education as well. Universities continue to perpetuate the elitism and whiteness of institutions because of the few numbers of Black and Brown people on PWI campuses. The creation of the institution of education was deliberate and something that still affects communities of cooler especially Black and a native people because they do not always have access to them like white folks do.<span class=”Apple-converted-space”> </span>
picture re from top 10 universities piece by Robert Benson
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February 24, 2019 at 3:24 pm #4352Denasia GainesParticipant
When we talk about land we often remove ourselves from the situation, especially at UCSD. UCSD is built on kumeyaay land and often times talk about equity and inclusion but refuse to acknowledge the harm done and continue to be done to native folks on this campus. Not only are native folks 0% on this campus, the chancellor refuses to come to an agreement with the kumeyaay nation to get their ancestors remains back to them. This issue of land occupation and showing off what’s not our isn’t something of the 1800 and 1900s it’s something of the current day and UCSD is an active participant of this stealing and elitism of the land.
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February 10, 2019 at 3:13 pm #3911Denasia GainesParticipant
San Diego is very unique in the fact that many suburbs surround the urban/poor communities, the communities that are filled with people of color, and low income people. This means, that good schools surround the low income neighborhood but they do not always have the access or resources to attend those good schools. San Diego Unified School District has a program entitled the “School Choice Program”, this program allowed for students to attend the schools outside of their zip codes if they wanted to or wanted their child to attend a magnet or performing arts school. While this seems like a good program, it is only accessible to people that have things like computers or internet within their homes. Which is a way of weaving out those who they don’t want at these “prestigious” schools in the first place. This allows for the continued segregation of schools and resources in San Diego. This picture is found in the San Diego Real Estate Journal where they rank school districts in the San Diego county that represents what I was talking about earlier in this section.
San Diego Real Estate Journal
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February 3, 2019 at 11:50 am #3670Denasia GainesParticipant
For my week 4 weekly share I want to focus on the impact of religion for the Black community. It was believed that during slavery, Christianity was a tool for slaves to have hope in one day being free. Then Christianity was used during the civil rights movement as a tool to organize and to have faith. The Nation of Islam arose for the same reason. To serve as a Pilar for Black folks to survive and concur living in a world that hates Black people. People often times turn Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr against each other but they often strived for the same things and fought the same fight but through different avenues. I say all yhis yo say religion is important for the Black community because it gives hope, peace of mind, and the ability to overcome the adversities in this society.
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January 26, 2019 at 8:41 pm #3407Denasia GainesParticipant
This photo is a representation of the school to prison pipeline and the impact of lack of funding in particular communities and the track it leads them too. Often times when talking about redlining, blockbusting, and other forms of modern racial segregation, the educational system is explored but it is not considered in the ways in which communities of color but especially Black and immigrant families are affected. Schools are funded by the communities that surround them meaning that low income families do not have much to offer to their neighborhood schools unlike communities with wealth. Often times these schools have fewer funding and more enforcement that contributes to their involvement with law enforcement. Many of these systems are connected and contribute to one another but it is important to understand that these various systems contribute to many of the obstacles faced by Black, Brown, immigrant, and low income communities.
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January 20, 2019 at 11:48 am #3193Denasia GainesParticipant
This photo came from an article discussing the similarities between graffiti and street art. Often times we categorize and racialize things like art and artistic expression. It is eaty to place these various art kinds in particular communities even though they are both considered vandalism. One piece will get you a few years and the other will get you appreciated and seen as a talented artist who is going beyond the limits. The difference stems from the racialization of various spaces. In one community, it will be painted over and demonized because it is populated with people of color and low/working class people while the other the community is full of middle/upper class white and people who had the opportunity to assimilate into whiteness and their culture. Racialization of space caused for basic things like art to either be racialized or demonized.
Photo from Seres Lu/Columbia
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