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Davis, Angela. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle. Haymarket Books, 2016.
Davis, Angela Y. Are Prisons Obsolete? 2010.
---. Women, Race & Class. Vintage, 1983.
Marx, Karl. Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. International Pub, 1964.
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. How We Get Free. 2017.

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both of these social media influencers had their work taken down from their main social media platforms without justification or explanation. Both of these influencers express their frustrations with the media and society about their race and how it affects their media. What these two influencers express is a clear sign of separation from their peers due to the administrators, and possibly because of their race. Although is may not have been intentional, their activity on their profiles being taken down decreases their viewership, further separating them from their peers who are of a different race on the platform.

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"I am tired of being censored.

I am tired of being attacked.

I’m tired of not feeling safe.

I’m tired of not knowing who to trust.

I’m tired of defending my humanity.

I’m tired of debating the truth of my lived experiences.

I’m tired of not being able to speak my mind without fear of retribution.

I’m tired of injustice and discrimination.

I’m tired of having to be twice as good and two steps ahead just to fxcking live.

I’m tired of having my words wiped clean from existence without reason or justification.

I’m tired of the emotional labour of being in this melanated body in these white-centred spaces.

I’m tired of having to be the strong one, the resilient one, the one who acts better than she’s being treated.

I’m tired of screaming that I’m being hurt and being punished for it, while my abusers are protected and enabled.

I’m tired of being tired.

So damn tired.”

Saad is a social media influencer, who is an activist, talking about her relationship with white supremacy. Saad wrote this piece when 11 posts on her social media were taken down by the platforms when she was discussing racism and white supremacy. She talks about her frustrations in this text with the way she is treated on social media and society.

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Both the Kamoinge Workshop and the Combahee River Collective are groups that show/ talk about strong activist like things. These groups were strong examples of ways society could dissolve the line of race affecting the community. The Workshop's brilliant pictures showed the proper representation of black people, and leveled the playing ground for all artists out there. The Collective used their hardships to come together and advocate for "revolutionary politics'' Groups like these two fade the separation of race in society.

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The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop are black photographers that worked together to create their exhibition called Working Together. The exhibition includes over 140 photos taken during the 1960's-1970's during the heart of the Black Arts Movement. Of course I cannot collage the pictures they all took together, so here is a video with those photos in one place, along with some of the photographers talking about their experience.

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Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop

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Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop is organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and curated by Dr. Sarah Eckhardt, associate curator of modern and contemporary art, VMFA. The installation at the Whitney is overseen by Carrie Springer, assistant curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, with Mia Matthias, curatorial assistant.

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Both the text and the art piece resemble the struggle of African Americans with the rest of society even after there were large steps in favor of the civil rights movement. In Davis's text, she talks about the backlash black women in particular got when trying to enter the work force. That backlash was very similar to the backlash black students got when schools were desegregated. Society didnt accept African Americans with them in the work force or in school and continued to try to find ways to separate them from the rest of society.

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The Door (Admissions Office) (1969) by David Hammons

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The Door (Admissions Office) (1969) by David Hammons

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This piece depicts the hardships black people faced with desegregating schools during the civil rights movement. In the piece, the door depicts an "admissions office" one that you would see in school. There is black paint that depicts a person that has been pushed against the door. The body depicted is a black student that symbolizes the hardships black students faced during the desegregation of schools. From the article, it is said that the desegregation of schools faced a lot of protest with many people showing their pushback by making school a living hell for black students.

https://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/in_brief/5-empowering-artworks-and-exhibitions-made-during-the-civil-rights-movement-55256

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in both the documentary and in the spoken word poem, the both talk about the disparities black people have to face when they go face to face with the police. Police brutality has been active for over 80 years. Police brutality is and has been a very strong factor that divides society between race. Not only does police brutality divide society depending on their race, it also negatively affects black people in their everyday lives. Like the poem said, black people have to "stay woke" and be on their toes to not cross police the wrong way or they will be 'asleep forever".

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"War on Black Boys" Poem on Police Brutality

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"War on Black Boys" Poem on Police Brutality

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This is a spoken word poem written and spoken by Kale Nelson. This poem talks about the disparities black men face with police due to their skin color. Nelson talks about black boys who have been killed by the police, and shows his anger towards the brutality. He talks about how the moms of those children must live with how their sons were killed for the rest of their lives and how he, a black boy, has to "stay woke, because if [he] finally goes to sleep, [he] will stay asleep forever." Meaning if he stops being alert, he too will be a victim of police brutality.

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"War on Black Boys" Poem on Police Brutality

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In the text, Angela Davis makes a great point about progressive change and what to do to see that change society. She talks about how "well- organized movements" will truly help to set progressive change into motion. This "progressive direction" Davis talks about is the progressive change to further dissolve the divide of races between society. Movements like the Black Lives Matter Movement are monumental for that change to happen. When George Floyd died, the BLM Movement exploded with young people from all over the nation to help promote change within the system and to help from equality between races. Movements like this are crucial for that "progressive direction" Davis talks about.

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this mural was made for George Floyd, on the wall of the Cups Food Store on 38th and Chicago where he died of police brutality. Behind Floyd's portrait, there are more names of African Americans who have wrongfully died of police brutality. George's death in particular created a massive outrage, promoting the Black Lives Matter Movement.

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There are many stereotypes about the homeless population, with how they are at fault for their own homelessness, how they are lazy and just don't put in the work in order to get off the streets. These stereotypes are what fuel the divide in society with those who have homes and those who don't. The Urban Voices Project is a way to connect a bridge between those who have never experienced homelessness and educate them on what is true, and how to help. Groups like this dissolve the divide between society and affect how society can positively influence those who are not like them, and become a solution to the problem. Overall fading that line between those who have a home and those who don't.

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The Urban Voices Project is a choir group made up of individuals who were/are residents of Skid Row. Skid Row is a neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles where the homeless migrate in need for shelter. Some from this marginalized group have come together in song and share their stories on stage to bring awareness of the hardships of being homeless in this video. This group is to also help those who are homeless find a sense of purpose and satisfaction singing in front of an audience.

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Songs and Stories of Skid Row | Urban Voices Project  | TEDxLaSierraUniversity

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Karl Marx and the creators at Disney both focus on this divide between the rich and the poor. Both of them talk about how negative that divide between the two are and how that can  impact those on both sides. Marx introduces this divide and how the poor can be negatively impacted by the choices of the rich, and looked at differently by society. The Newsies musical is a strong example of that. The newsies are judged and belittled by society because of their status, and the owner of the newspaper makes a choice that negatively affects the newsies. Both the text and the musical are strong ideas about how the rich and the poor are divided and what toll that takes on them in society.

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In Disney's NEWSIES musical, this award winning Broadway show was set in 1899 to tell a story about a boy named Jack and his friends who sell newspapers as kids in the city of New York. When the rich owner of the newspaper increased the prices of the newspaper,  the group of newsies decided to protest against the new change, since it affected the way they made their money and survived. This heartwarming story was based around true events of the The Newsboys’ Strike of 1899. Young kids who were messengers, bootblacks, and factory workers also supported the strike.

https://newsiesthemusical.com/pdf/NewsiesStudyGuide.pdf

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Here both pieces focus on the wrongful treatment of women, particularly black women, in the prison system. In the text, Davis shows that these incarcerated women were belittled and traumatized by the time they spent in jail. So much where these women were affected for the rest of their lives. In the art piece, the artist made a queen chess piece as symbolism of confession being the “queen” of the criminal evidence. After brutally assaulting Bobbie, the police were able to get a fake confession out of her and wrongfully convict her of first-degree murder. All these women were belittled by the prison system affecting them for the rest of their lives. The prison system reinforced these divides among minority women by forcing them into this horrific atmosphere where they are not only divided within it but are divided with the rest of society once they get out.

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the shape of the crown on top of the piece is made up of guns, along with pieces of a purse wrapping all around the crown. 

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Rontherin Ratliff- "All Black & Blue, Bruises of a Queen's Crown" 

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Rontherin Ratliff- "All Black & Blue, Bruises of a Queen's Crown" 

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This piece focuses on a story about a black girl named Bobbie Jean Johnson was wrongfully accused of stabbing someone when the actual perpetrators slid a knife and a gun into her purse. At only 19, Bobbie was brutally assaulted into a coerced confession that she was the killer, and charged with first degree murder. After serving 40 years in prison, she was released. The artist said, “I was thinking about the way her confession was obtained but also about the strategic way that the criminal justice system game is played. She had to accept this life sentence. That became the crown she had to wear.”

https://countryroadsmagazine.com/art-and-culture/visual-performing-arts/perspectives-per-sister/

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In this PHirt, Abby talks about the 13th Documentary and how it related to Angela Davis's "Women Race and Class". Slavery was illegal except when it came to those who were incarcerated in the 1940's. So, there was a mass number of African Americans who were incarcerated and wrongfully abused by white Americans, so they would continue to feel belittled and frowned upon. Many African Americans were wrongfully arested and lynched when they did the slightest thing wrong, further separating black and white Americans.

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Freedom is a Constant Struggle- Angela Davis

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Freedom is a Constant Struggle- Angela Davis

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"Young people effectively created a movement—or one should  qualify  this  by  saying  that it was a cyber  movement—that achieved what was supposed to be impossible. The problem was that people  who  associated themselves with that  movement did not continue to wield that  collective power as  pressure that might  have  compelled Obama to move in more  progressive directions..." "What we have lacked over these last five years is not the right president, but rather well-organized mass movements."

Angela Davis is interviewed and the interviewer asked, "The election of Barack Obama was celebrated by many as a victory against racism... ...[Do you think] that it actually paralyzed for a long time the left, including African Americans involved in the fight for a fairer world?" To answer that question, she says people are wrong to think that Barack Obama becoming president was the end of the fight against oppression for African Americans. She points out that in order to continue "progressive direction" we need "well organized, mass-movements" and they need to be consistently advocated for in order to see progressive change.

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Black Feminism and The Combahee River Collective

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Black Feminism and The Combahee River Collective

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"But "identity politics" was not just about who you were; it was also about what you could do to confront the oppression you were facing.  Or, as Black women had  argued within the broader feminist movement: "the personal is  political."  This slogan was not just about "lifestyle" issues, as it came to be popularly understood, rather it was initially about how the experiences within the lives of Black women shaped their political outlook. The experiences of oppression, humiliations, and the indignities created by poverty, racism, and sexism opened Black women up to the possibility of radical and  revolutionary politics"

in this passage, this is coming from the Combahee River Collective was a group made up of black feminists who were on a mission to look at a new perspective on oppression. They focused on interlocking the oppressions that they faced and developed the idea of "identity politics". By intertwining all of their hardships, they wanted to have a larger impact on changing those oppressions on society.

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"In thirty-two out of forty-eight states, domestic service was the dominant occupation for men and women alike. In seven out of ten of these states, more Black people in other occupations combined. The census report was proof that Negroes are servants, servants are Negroes"

"When they had traveled North seeking to escape the old slavery, they had discovered that there were simply no other occupations open to them. In researching her study, Eaton interviewed several women who had previously taught school, but had been fired because of "prejudice". Expelled from the classroom, they were compelled to work in the washroom and the kitchen."

Davis talks about how after the emancipation of slaves there were loopholes that white families used in order to keep black people enslaved. When looking for freedom, black people (specifically women)  were forced to take jobs as housing servants for those white families.

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in this voice thread, I talk about homelessness in America, specifically skid row. Skid Row is an area in Los Angeles where homeless people will go. I also talk about how homelessness continues to rise, and how a lot of those who are homeless have addictions, or mental health issues.

Homelessness in America is on the rise and those who are homeless have great trouble getting out of it. as said before, those who are homeless are usually those who have an addiction or have mental health issues, which puts them lower on the totem pole when it comes to class. and the fact that they struggle with escaping homelessness further divides society into those who are rich and those who are poor.

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"It is from this perspective of the contemporary expansion of prisons, both in the United States and throughout the world,  that we should examine some of the historical and ideological aspects of state punishment imposed on women. Since the end of  the eighteenth century, when, as we have seen, imprisonment began to emerge as the dominant form of punishment, convicted women have been represented as essentially different from their male counterparts."

In Davis's Are Prisons Obsolete she talks about the differences between how women get treated in prisons compared to how men are treated. She talks about the disturbing experiences women have had to go through while in prison (especially those who are minorities), and how that affected them in the future.

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in this PHirt, I talk about a black YouTuber who faced difficulties with YouTube about one of his videos, and other YouTubers who were white were not facing the same backlash as we was when they posted a very similar video. Those difficulties the black YouTuber faced did cause him to lose viewers, therefore losing money.

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In American History, there have been massive divides among people. Americans' traits or preferences on things have caused these negative divides. In today's world, not only do we still see these massive divides among people, we see how they can be negatively affected by them in their everyday lives. This strong divide in society are determined by components of race, class, political preference, and past actions. although there are strong divides in society, there are also groups and movements that help try to fade those negative separations of society.

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"That  the  wretchedness  of  the  worker  is  in  inverse  proportion  to  the power and magnitude of his production; that the necessary result of competition is the accumulation of capital in a few hands, and thus the restoration of monopoly  in  a more terrible form; and that finally the distinction between capitalist and land rentier, like that between the tiller of the  soil and the factory worker, disappears and that the whole  of  society must fall apart into the two classes – property owners and propertyless workers" (28).

Karl Marx distinctively talks about the divide between the rich and the poor in his manuscripts. Marx discusses the differences between the rich (being the property owners) and the poor (being propertyless owners) and how the poor are only there to do the labor and the rich are there to read all of the benefits.