Monday, April 20, 2009

Another Christensen Argument Picture of RI Senate 2008-2009


I had a unique experience of being selected to be a part of a group called College Leadership RI. Last Friday we had our commencement in the State House. I noticed this picture on the wall, so, I took a snap shot with my cell phone. Even though it is a bit blurry, it is still possible to see all the white faces in the picture. Furthermore, the picture is predominantly men. By having this picture hanging up in the State House, it portrays who has the control influenced by the codes of power. The people in the picture do not equally reflect the population at large today. It reminded me of Christensen just because she would argue that people need to be trained to be able to pick out these sterotypical pictures. I picked it out and just wanted to post to my blog..

5 comments:

  1. That's such a cool thing for you to have noticed. I totally agree with you, it shows who has, and is supposed to have, the power. I think the fact that you picked up on that is important because it shows that this class is making you think of things differently and notice things that you might not have noticed before.

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  2. i like how you pick out things and relate it to class and the articles that we have read. I find myself doing the same thing. i now begin to notice privileges and inequity more often then i did before.

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  3. I agree with Kevin just from looking at that picture it makes you think about what else is inequity and see what the privileges are

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  4. i agree Shayla. You picking up on that pic shows that this class had help most of us to chage our point of views towards privilege.

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