Critical Exposure partnered with the Intercultural Development Research Association and a group of high school students to document two segregation court cases: Brown v. Board of Ed. and Mendez v. Westminister. The students explored the ways in which the promises of the court cases have been fulfilled in their schools and how they remain unfulfilled.
BROKEN FENCE
Fatimah, IDRA/Albuquerque Public School District
“This picture is of a broken fence in the back of my school. I took this picture for a couple of reasons. First of all the angle I was at was an interesting one and second I felt that this fence meant something and represented something to me. I saw something very symbolic in the shot and I wanted to capture that. Because the fence looks and appears to be broken, I felt that the fence represented and symbolized the promises desired from the Brown/Mendez cases. While they appeared to be fixed on the surface, if you look deeper or beyond the surface there is still much to be changed and fixed. We cannot continue to just attempt to mend those problems of which the cases fought for. We have come a long way but we have still have further to go.”
Fatimah, IDRA/Albuquerque Public School District
“This picture is of a broken fence in the back of my school. I took this picture for a couple of reasons. First of all the angle I was at was an interesting one and second I felt that this fence meant something and represented something to me. I saw something very symbolic in the shot and I wanted to capture that. Because the fence looks and appears to be broken, I felt that the fence represented and symbolized the promises desired from the Brown/Mendez cases. While they appeared to be fixed on the surface, if you look deeper or beyond the surface there is still much to be changed and fixed. We cannot continue to just attempt to mend those problems of which the cases fought for. We have come a long way but we have still have further to go.”
BROKEN FENCE
Fatimah, IDRA/Albuquerque Public School District
“This picture is of a broken fence in the back of my school. I took this picture for a couple of reasons. First of all the angle I was at was an interesting one and second I felt that this fence meant something and represented something to me. I saw something very symbolic in the shot and I wanted to capture that. Because the fence looks and appears to be broken, I felt that the fence represented and symbolized the promises desired from the Brown/Mendez cases. While they appeared to be fixed on the surface, if you look deeper or beyond the surface there is still much to be changed and fixed. We cannot continue to just attempt to mend those problems of which the cases fought for. We have come a long way but we have still have further to go.”
Fatimah, IDRA/Albuquerque Public School District
“This picture is of a broken fence in the back of my school. I took this picture for a couple of reasons. First of all the angle I was at was an interesting one and second I felt that this fence meant something and represented something to me. I saw something very symbolic in the shot and I wanted to capture that. Because the fence looks and appears to be broken, I felt that the fence represented and symbolized the promises desired from the Brown/Mendez cases. While they appeared to be fixed on the surface, if you look deeper or beyond the surface there is still much to be changed and fixed. We cannot continue to just attempt to mend those problems of which the cases fought for. We have come a long way but we have still have further to go.”
Original size: 1110px x 1700px |
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