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March 10, 2019 at 2:52 pm #4784SYEDA MAHMOODParticipant
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 main stage as the “white people stage.” He also did his entire show that night wearing a bulletproof vest, and had images playing all over the stage of social justice issues. He also brought out Kendrick Lamar for his last song. Kendrick, another black hip hop artist, is not only an award winner rapper, but his content is also similar to Vince Staples in that he is not afraid to talk about issues that he sees in society, and injustice that he feels the African American community feels. Because of this, I believe bringing him out was partially because he is very famous, and partially to make a very big statement. Coachella is very known for being a festival that mostly white people attend, with artists that cater to that crowd. Vince Staples was not the only one to challenge that stereotype at 2018 Coachella, Beyonce announced that she was proud to be the first African American female headliner during her set.
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February 24, 2019 at 11:10 am #4303SYEDA MAHMOODParticipant
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 areas that tourists could come and visit, and where the Natives could no longer live their normal lives in. One big example of this is the story of Yosemite, which is such a major national park for so many of us. In 1851, soldiers from California discovered a region that the Ahwahneechee Indians were residing upon, forced them out of the valley, and renamed it “Yosemite” for themselves. The Native Indians tried to return to their land, but they were forced to work as degrading Indian performers to be able to live there, and were completely evicted from the area in 1969. Conservation in some ways was another form of colonialism, where the state felt that they would be able to preserve the land better than those who were currently living on it, and therefore forced the Natives out of the areas to turn them into National Parks.
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February 17, 2019 at 2:06 pm #4118SYEDA MAHMOODParticipant
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 have in a way replaced Jim Crow laws to be the new method of segregation. More black people are criminalized and thrown into jail than other ethnic groups in the US, and therefore it is a way to keep black individuals separated from whites by having them put in jails and away from society. When they are out of jail, it is very difficult for them to return to normal life with a criminal record, and they are forced to become second class citizens.
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