BLOG ASSIGNENT TWO: GLOBAL ISSUES
For this Blog Assignment Im going to create a new post about a Global Issue, in the hope that others can interact and put foward their opinions and knowledge about this issue.
WHAT IS A GLOBAL ISSUE?
To put it in the most basic of terms: An issue that is prominent around the globe.
Im going to concentrate on Racism as my Global issue,as it is, without a doubt a prominent issue present around the globe today.
http://www.fotosearch.com/CSP203/k2033790/
Any thoughts, opinions, ideas or knowledge on the global issue of Racism are appreciated!!!
To start off with I have found a sort of real life experiment that deals with Racism. Over the last four years, Canadian photographer Wayne Dunkley has posted 400 photocopied images of himself in downtown Toronto and Montreal, which have subsequently been torn down, covered up and defaced. Each recorded response, he says, provokes viewers to consider their own response to “the black male.” Click on the link below to check it out, to scroll through click on the small square portrait of him on the right.
http://www.sharemyworld.net/Intro%20Page%201.htm
Leave me comments on your thoughts about it.
THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT
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Black Power was a political movement expressing a new racial consciousness amoung blacks in the United States in the late 1960s. Black Power represented both a conclusion to the decade’s civil rights movement and a reaction against the racism that persisted despite the efforts of black activists during the early 1960s. The meaning of Black Power was debated vigorously while the movement was in progress. To some it represented blacks; insistence on racial dignity and self-reliance, which was usually interpreted as economic and political independence, as well as freedom from white authority.
Below is the first part of a one hour BBC documentary highlighting a significant Black Power Solute moment. If you are interested in watching the whole documentary, here is the link for that:
