Representing Race and Ethnicity in American Culture

[caramida]

I have spent the last week trying to figure out what image to use for my assigned 3-4 page paper in the summer class on Visual Narratives of Race and Gender in Photography and Art. The paper is due Thursday, and so I kind of need to get cracking. There are lots of iconic images from which one could make a choice. I decided that I didn't want to take anything too pop-culture-y, or too new. After thinking on it for a while, I realized what photo I wanted to do. Having looked it up, I've decided that I this is the image for me:



Now just to put together a coherent narrative describing the disconnect between the fate of these children and the phrase with liberty and justice for all.

Comments

[caramida.livejournal.com]

That's a good solid read. Now with a different context, it reads differently. If you note that this is a photo of Japanese American kids one month before they were relocated to camps like Manzanar, what does the pledge of allegiance mean then?