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Gabrielle Blanco replied to the topic Week 9 photo share in the forum
Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 4 months ago
For this week’s photo share, I chose a screenshot of the lyrics of “FOR MY PEOPLE” by Joey Bada$$. The song addresses the social and political struggles that Black people face on a daily basis and Joey, using his role, as an artist to fight for change for his people. Through his lyrics, Joey touches on police brutality, mass incarceration, and…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Blanco replied to the topic Week 8 photo share in the forum
Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 4 months ago
For this week’s theme of white space, I have chosen a screenshot of a tweet that calls out another white woman calling the police on a black person for doing nothing wrong. This woman, referred to as Golfcart Gail, called 911 on a black father who was cheering for his son at his soccer game. She described him as aggressive, threatening and made…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Blanco replied to the topic Week 7 photo share in the forum
Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 5 months ago
I found this photo from an article about Southern Utah University’s Ancestral Lands Program, “a nonprofit conservation program that operates nationally in an effort to connect Native Americans with their ancestral lands.” This program, which is largely funded by the National Park Foundation, basically gave internships to Native American youth and…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Blanco replied to the topic Week 6 photo share in the forum
Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 5 months ago
This political cartoon represents the separate but equal drug sentencing laws that disproportionately affects people of color, especially black men. The article where I found this photo explains how people of color caught with small amounts of crack cocaine would receive the same sentences as white people caught with large amounts of powder…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Blanco replied to the topic Week 5 photo share in the forum
Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 5 months ago
This image was taken at the Milwaukee Math and Science Academy, where more than 98 percent of the students are African-American and nearly all qualify for free or reduced price lunch. This depicts the racial isolation of charter school students, further proving that charter schools were among the most racially and economically segregated in the…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Blanco replied to the topic Week 4 photo share in the forum
Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 5 months ago
This image shows Malcolm X standing behind a podium during a Black Muslim rally in New York City. He is holding up a newspaper with the headline “Our Freedom Can’t Wait.” This picture is significant because, as the second in command of the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X led his people to fight for their freedom and call for a separate nation instead…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Blanco replied to the topic Week 3 photo share in the forum
Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 6 months ago
This cartoon represents the extreme residential segregation that the residents of Flint, Michigan are still facing. Flint, being a city of mostly people of color living under the poverty line, lacked the access to high-quality public goods and services even before the water crisis. When residents started complaining about the contaminated water in…[Read more]