Week 3: Reflecting on Maurice Berger's Race Stories
This week, we’re featuring Maurice Berger’s Race Stories article, “Photos That Challenge Stereotypes About African-American Youths.” This article looks at photographs from “Picturing Children,” the fourth volume in a series of books published by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Works from “Picturing Children” explore the routines of everyday life in Black communities and the added weight Black children are pressured to shoulder because they are being raised in a world that already has preconceived notions and prejudices about them because of their skin color. The photographs also consider how Black children are forced to grow up in a society with systems that do not allow them to be children and, instead, must face the discrimination and injustices that infiltrated their schools and communities.
Article:https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/african-american-children-empowered-by-photography/
Posted: July 6, 2020, 10:47 AM