Final Project

Diany Rodriguez

            In today’s generation we deal with a lot of racism either in media, the internet and/or physically. Minorities are excluded and treated differently in America. In this generation we are believed to be equal but in reality, the problem of racial discrimination has not been changed. This problem affects many physically and mentally. During my high school years, I have seen many students of color being bullied and laughed at, I have heard racial words being said, I have even dealt with it myself. Being called a Mexican just because I was Spanish, dealing with people laughing at me because I had an accent, being told to go back to my country just because “it was funny to say”, was not a good way to deal, while just trying to get an education. Even though I dealt with bullying well, do you ever imagine those who have gotten in depression or thought of suicidal, feeling left out? That is a horrible feeling. I believe High Schools should be stricter with racial discrimination and should even teach the students the wrongful of doing. 

            In my project I will be doing an online course, mostly for high school teachers to make sure this course is taken by the students during the school year. I am hoping to encourage the students to understand what racial discrimination is and what can cause a person dealing with this problem, hoping that those students understand how important it is to stop the discrimination in this world. I will include recent problems where people of color dealt with, such as being bullied in school and committed suicidal. I will also include artwork with important artist who have also dealt with racial discrimination. I will include facts within discriminations in high schools and the US in general. I will also add videos of people who actually been physically discriminated. I will also add a discussion board where students can speak up for their selves and be able to interact about current events dealing with racism. Lastly, adding a test called IAT, where it basically tests students for their hidden bias. With this test I hope to make those students think different towards the minorities. 

            

“Nina Chanel Abney’s striking painting Class of 2007 (2007), which she based on her art school class where she was the only African-American student. Abney takes the group of students and reverses the races of everyone, painting her classmates in orange prison garb and herself as a white prison guard. “The artists take material, whether it’s visual, whether it’s auditory, whether it’s something theatrical and they use the subject of their world,” says Thomas. “The fact that it is done as art, we are hoping that the experience is transformative”

Open Casket By Dana Schutz. “It is one of the most powerful images to emerge from the racism that infected the southern states of America in the 1950s – the photograph of a badly beaten 14-year-old boy, lynched after being falsely accused of flirting with a white woman, lying in a funeral casket.”

                            

Kerry James Marshall, Untitled (Studio), 2014 (All rights reserved/Courtesy David Zwirner, London) “The blackness of my figures is supposed to be unequivocal, absolute and unmediated,” Marshall explains. “They are a response to the tendency in the culture to privilege lightness. The lighter the skin, the more acceptable you are. The darker the skin, the more marginalised you become. I want to demonstrate that you can produce beauty in the context of a figure that has that kind of velvety blackness. It can be done.”

Work Cited

Sooke, Alastair. “Culture - Kerry James Marshall: Challenging Racism in Art History.” BBC News, BBC, 28 Oct. 2014

 “'30 Americans': Art Works to Confront Racism.” KCTS 9 - Public Television, 11 Nov. 2016

“ProjectImplicit.” Select a Test, implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html.

Branigin, Anne. “Toronto Principal Transferred After Being Accused of Racially Profiling Students With 'Black List'.” The Root, Www.theroot.com, 30 June 2018

Branigin, Anne. “White Football Coach Accused of Using a Noose as a 'Joke' to Intimidate a Black Student Gets Paid Leave.” The Root, Www.theroot.com, 7 June 2018

Lopez. “‘Everybody in the Room Spat in Your Coke’: Black Celebrities Tell Their First Experience with Racism.” Vox.com, Vox Media, 14 Feb. 201

Esack, Steve, and Michelle Merlin. “Racism Rears Its Ugly Head in Lehigh Valley Schools.” Themorningcall.com, 20 Nov. 2016

Holt, Melissa. “Bullying and Suicide: What's the Connection?” The Conversation, The Conversation, 16 Nov. 2018

https://diannnyx3.wixsite.com/mysite