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March 10, 2019 at 12:54 pm #4759KRISTY EVANSParticipant
This weekend, I was able to go see a UCSD Production of a play titled EVERYBODY BLACK by Dave Harris. This play is about a Black Historian who was commissioned to write all about black history to be sent to space. Ignorance getting the best of the Historian, she tells stories of the stereotypical understandings of Black history and their lives from the perspective of White people. The use of certain languages in this play and situations that arise show the segregation of black culture and events surrounding black inequality and discrimination. One example is a scene titled “DAT AIN’T ME”. In this scene, the character explains the many situations and experiences in the world that physically resemble her but culturally and in reality do not represent her, and therefore, do not represent black people. This shows how white influence has effected and segregated black people in many and almost all spaces. Another example is a scene titled “EVERY BLACK MOTHER EVER”. The character in this scene is portrayed to be every black mother every (already problematic). She trophies her three children and flaunts their bright futures. However, in the middle of each explanation, her child is shot right before her eyes. She blames police brutality and gang violence. The scene mentions their home as the “hood”and represent yet another stereotype of black Americans. While this play did not have lyrical representations specifically of segregation, the entire play and its lines do represent the emotional and physical aftermath of oppression and segregation of many years.
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Screenshot of Play script by Dave Harris titled Everybody Black
Pages 47-48
Last Revised 1/19/19
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Photo 2:
Photo taken by Manuel Rotenberg
Source: Twitter account @UCSDTheatre
Published: March 8, 2019
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Screenshot of Play script by Dave Harris titled Everybody Black
Pages 25
Last Revised 1/19/19
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March 3, 2019 at 12:40 pm #4555KRISTY EVANSParticipant
I chose this image for Week 8’s photo share on white space because it emphasizes the twisted mindset and enormous amount of ignorance many white adults in the United States have. I originally was going to post an image of a playground with many anti-Semitic chalk drawings including swastikas and the phrase “Hail Hitler” in a New York City elementary school. However, I decided not to use this as the child who drew this was only 12. While age is not justification for this hate crime, age partially explains the child’s inability to understand what really happened during the horrible times of WWII. I decided to then choose a photo of a protest in Virginia. White adults gathered around a Confederate Statue that was planned to be taken down the next day. They held torches and occupied this space. To them, this statue and the location it was standing on belonged to them, it was a white space. White men and women stood there in the middle of the night and fought for their beloved statue to remain. These adults have been through the basic mandatory schooling in the US. They were taught the meaning and the implications this flag and statue. Despite this horrible history, they claimed this flag and statue with pride and honor, enough to fight for it. This made me question what these people really believe about people of color and black people. Do these people really think they are the dominant or superior race? Why would someone want to fight for a symbol that has so much history of racism and cruelty? Do they think “Any intruders to this (white) space ought to be there for criminal purposes and must be reprimanded”? It is people like them who believe this land belongs only to them, this land belongs to white people and only white people.
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CNN Article “What’s wrong with too many white men in one place?”
Author: John Blake
Picture by: Unknown
Date: May 27, 2017
https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/25/us/too-many-white-men/index.html
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February 24, 2019 at 2:44 pm #4340KRISTY EVANSParticipant
In late 2016, the National Park Service (NPS) newly allowed Native Americans to engage in what seemed to be a highly prohibited activity in National Parks. Members of Native American Tribes would be able to remove vegetation and plants from the National Parks that were once part of their land. This new rule was created as NPS finally recognized that what they “preserved” had actual contained culturally important and vital natural resources to certain Tribal traditions. However, this isn’t a tangible reclamation of land or formal reparations to the Native American population. Those who want to harvest plants for their traditions must go through a formal process that can include applying for permits or meeting an agreement between both parties. These limitations and procedures shows how NPS still has control over the claimed land and basically over the people who need the resources on this land. While although some may say this is a right step towards making amends (and it CAN be in some ways), it doesn’t change the rights many Native American Tribes are entitled to nor does it change the societal understanding that these lands are being used by and belong to the wrong people. The Native American population has been stripped of so many of their rights and land. This new rule highlights the limitations the United States of America still has over these people as well as the slow progression towards realizing the damages caused.
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Rapid City Journal
Mike Anderson
August 2016
Pictured: Richard Sherman, member and biologist of the Oglala Sioux Tribe
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February 17, 2019 at 4:09 pm #4152KRISTY EVANSParticipant
I found this distributing image earlier this week and it had me in shock. This is an image of Tallahassee Police arresting a man who was suspected of Theft, however, the arrested man’s two year old daughter walks toward the officer and her father with her hands up. This was extremely heart breaking and distributing to witness as the innocence of childhood is clearly shown. Although it was later discovered that the father had been guilty of theft, this made me consider the many innocent black men and women who were wrongly arrested and charged in front of their own children and the impacts this would bring their development. According to a action plan titled “Children of Incarcerated Parents: An Action Plan for Federal Policymakers” published by the The Council of State Governments Justice Center in 2009, many children were traumatized by witnessing their parents being arrested. This piece includes a 1998 national study from the Children of Incarcerated Parents Project that said, of parents who were arrested “67 percent were handcuffed in front of their children, 27 percent reported weapons were drawn, 4.3 percent reported a physical struggle, and 3.2 percent reported the use of pepper spray.” This can lead of a series of mental issues in these children. Along with this, the racial targeting of arrests increases the likelihood of deviance, bad behavior, and irritability among children in the stigmatized group. According to a Rutgers University publication titled “CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF THE INCARCERATED FACT SHEET”, while 1 in 28 children have an incarcerated parent, the statistic for African American children is 1 in 9 while for white children, it is 1 in 57. This racial difference says a lot about the United States’ policies regarding incarceration and arrest. Racial groups are stigmatized and targeted, showing innocent children the aggressive inequalities they will face in the future. This never-ending cycle is detrimental to both parents as well as the development of their children.
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CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF THE INCARCERATED FACT SHEET. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://nrccfi.camden.rutgers.edu/files/nrccfi-fact-sheet-2014.pdf
Children of Incarcerated Parents. (2018, June 26). Retrieved from https://nicic.gov/children-of-incarcerated-parents
Nickel, J., Garland, C., & Kane, L. (n.d.). Children of Incarcerated Parents: An Action Plan for Federal Policymakers. Retrieved from http://csgjusticecenter.org/reentry/publications/children-of-incarcerated-parents-an-action-plan-for-federal-policymakers/
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Found on WCTV.tv with article titled “Video shows toddler with hands up in front of officers with rifles during TPD arrest” published on January 18, 2019.
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February 10, 2019 at 12:35 pm #3875KRISTY EVANSParticipant
This morning as I was scrolling through Youtube, I found a video titled “A School to Nurture LA’s Homeless Youth”. With this intriguing title, I immediately clicked on the seven minute long video about a school for low income and homeless youth living in Los Angeles. Crete Academy, a charter school located on Crenshaw Boulevard, was created by Hattie Mitchell who sought to create a space to embrace the potential of the many Los Angeles children living in extreme poverty. As watching this video, however, I noticed the demographics of this school. It was majority African American and Hispanic/Latino children. The demographics for Crete Academy, according to the California Department of Education, had a percentage of 0.0% White and 71.8% African American. This led me to connect this weeks topic of segregation and education to Crete Academy. While this story and school benefits children of color, unlike many other cases, it reveals the unspoken demographics of the Los Angeles poverty population. Together, the Hispanic and African American ethnicity groups make up 79% of Los Angeles’ homeless population, according to the Los Angeles Almanac. Through this, the deadly cycle repeats as many children of color are unable to get access to good education and have no option other than to attend dangerous schools or drop out. The historical injustices that have hindered folks of color, more specifically the Black population, from obtaining the freedom and right to attend schools are reflected to this day in the homeless population. Through Crete Academy, however, it is hoped that these difficulties and levels of impoverishment can be overcome, leading the path for many students to lead a better life.
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Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/sU7MgwHB-b0
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California State University Los Angeles Magazine
Photo by: J. Emilio Flores
Date: 1/8/18
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http://www.laalmanac.com/social/so14.php
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February 3, 2019 at 3:34 pm #3705KRISTY EVANSParticipant
In discussing segregation as well as the social impacts of this segregation, the Baldwin piece, “Letter from a Region of my Mind” aided my understanding of black history in America. I believed the picture below showed a clear indication of exactly what Baldwin discusses in this piece. Baldwin makes it a point that the black community does not strive and hope to be a white man. The black community was seeking equality and justice. This picture shows a Black woman hanging a American flag on Memorial Day in 1962, the middle of the civil rights movement. Despite being so oppressed by the nation and at the time, oppressed by a majority of the men who have fought these wars, she still remembers and honors the victims who have died in American wars. She could have potentially only been honoring the many black soldiers who have died but still, she stands proudly behind the American flag. This emphasizes Baldwin’s point that blacks are a foundation of the American nation. There shouldn’t be a want or need to not be proud of the nation black people have built. With out black people, this nation would not be the success it is today. This woman, with the knowledge that her community will support her, proudly stands behind this flag despite the knowledge of the pain and suffering her community constantly battles with in this nation.
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Untitled by Bruce Davidson
Memorial Day 1962
New York City
ONLINE: Pier24 Photography https://pier24.org/artist/bruce-davidson/davb-004/
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January 27, 2019 at 11:51 am #3443KRISTY EVANSParticipant
This week discussing Segregation, it reminded me of the many physical and imaginary boundaries placed in cities to segregate communities and the lasting psychological and cultural impacts they made. One example is the Detroit Wall, or also known as the 8 Mile Wall. When large populations of African Americans and Blacks began to migrate and move into the Detroit metropolitan area, the city built a half mile long concrete wall to separate the White communities and homeowners from these newly black communities. This physical barrier served as a great presentation to the city and black communities that their presence was not welcome nor desired. Throughout the years, however, a greater barrier served as the separation between black and white communities in Detroit, 8-mile road. In comparison, this physical boundary was not intended to keep these two communities away from each other, unlike the wall, but the new cultural patterns and mindsets allowed this road to serve as the separating line. Whether it be through federal housing policies or through infrastructure, like the wall, the government holds great power in the social and cultural impacts within communities. The government is more so, however, responsible for shaping the social misconceptions that led to the increase of urban inequality, especially is large city centers. Today, the wall still stands with black communities on either side of it, south of the 8-Mile road, forever remaining a great reminder of the past and current racial inequalities and separation in America.
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USA Today
1941
Photo by: AP
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/01/detroit-race-wall/2127165/
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January 20, 2019 at 1:58 pm #3219KRISTY EVANSParticipant
After the discussion on Race and Space these past two weeks in class, I remember the extremely racial injustices that happened here at UCSD. In 2010, a couple of UCSD’s fraternities, mainly the fraternity of Pi Kappa Alpha (PIKE), hosted a racially targeted party in celebration of Black History Month. Guests were instructed to wear clothing similar to famous rappers, food served would resemble that of a barbecue that including fried chicken and watermelon, and students would be able to experience “life in the ghetto”. While this sparked a tremendous amount of criticism and protests, what this party really impacted were the livelihoods and dignity of the African American and Black students on a predominantly Caucasian and Asian campus. The space which they are already an extreme minority became magnified and vulnerable to the attention and public’s need for response. This space, despite being occupied by protesters who fought by their side, was not a safe space for black students. The idea that white students could create such an event with many supporters reflects on the community and their beliefs. The conflict this caused, racialized the space that they once occupied together. The historical impact this brought to the campus is lasting. UCSD’s Black population is still extremely low and involuntarily socially segregated. While public events similar to these are no longer, the mentality of white students and members fraternities may not have changed. Until the change of perception and community equality occurs, the racial separation of this space will continue.
Photo Found on UCSD’s The Triton, “THE COMPTON COOKOUT: A DAY PARTY TO BE REMEMBERED (OR NOT)”
Photo by: John Im & MG Abugan
Date: 2010
Location: UC San Diego’s Triton Steps & Triton Statue
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