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SYEDA MAHMOOD replied to the topic Week 9 photo share in the forum Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 1 month ago
This week’s theme of lyrical representation of separation immediately reminded me of Vince Staples’s Coachella 2018 set. Vince Staples is a black hip hop artist, and when we entered the main stage at Coachella, he introduced himself by saying he was aware that no one there knew who he was because they didn’t look like him, and also referred to the…[Read more]
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SYEDA MAHMOOD replied to the topic Week 7 photo share in the forum Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 2 months ago
Many people are unaware of the violent histories of our National Parks and how they being conserved land. For example, this image depicts some Havasupai girls playing on their small reservation in the Grand Canyon National Park. Many of these national parks were created by forcing Natives off of their land and then turning the lands into protected…[Read more]
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SYEDA MAHMOOD replied to the topic Week 6 photo share in the forum Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 2 months ago
I chose this photo because it depicts how mass incarceration primarily affects African Americans in the United States. The stripes on the American flag are drawn as prison bars, and the arms of the person who is behind the “bars” are black, showing that there is a disproportionate population of black people in prisons today. Prisons in modern time…[Read more]
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SYEDA MAHMOOD joined the group Race, Space, and Segregation (Winter 2019) 5 years, 2 months ago