Two Views of Racial Politics from the Same Democratic Convention Shoeshine Stand
Watching the Democratic Convention (or the RNC stage) this year, it’s pretty clear there’s nothing new or special about WASPs and Anglos. While the Republicans, on the other hand, bent over backwards to populate their show with darker shades, with an emphasis on Latino women, a glance at the...
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Concern for New Orleans/Katrina II Really an RNC Scheduling Factor? (Photos by Brendan Hoffman)
After canceling Day 1 of the Republican Convention due to weather, and with Tropical Storm Isaac now gathering steam with a bead on New Orleans, might further postponements have to do with basic compassion? the re-deployment of security resources?
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Of Birthers and Banners
A week ago, I would have skipped over this as petty. But with the Romney campaign that they aren't going to win without rallying white men, be careful what you ask for.
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Your Turn: That "Terrorist Mural" in Boston
With hate crime and the topic of Islam and fear-mongering rising up in the news cycle lately, I'm not sure if you've seen this.
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Gabby and Race, Sex and Seacrest, Cold War Too! — Visual Politics of the Olympics, Week 1
One week into the 2012 London Olympics, BagNews takes a look at the political optics with sports rhetoric professor Michael Butterworth.
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Facing an Unfriendly Crowd Vs. Creating One: Romney at the NAACP
There's quite a difference between facing an unfriendly crowd and creating one. An analysis of the audience response to Mitt Romney at the NAACP national convention.
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White House: Fresh Salsa
My dollar bet says that, between now and November, the White House Photo-of-the-Day largely morphs into an archive documenting how Team Obama eeked out a second term by way of the Rovian micro-targeting strategy.
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Scenes From the Stop and Frisk March — Photos by Nina Berman
These photos were taken at Sunday’s silent march in Manhattan protesting the NYPD’s bias in conducting racially-biased searches. The man’s suit and the quote as a historical reference seem to anchor this gentleman in the civil rights movement, an effect he quite likely had in mind. (His sign reads:...
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Latest Pics from Zimmerman Land: The Shellie Show
Perhaps there's another adage in play that is coming through loud and clear in the pictures. That is, if you stick around long enough, true character will reveal itself.
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Trayvon Martin Case: Looking at the Just-Released "Bloodied Zimmerman" Photos
Emotions and biases aside, it's important to appreciate that these new pictures only heighten the confusion surrounding the case.
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Beyond Reverend Wright: Deconstructing the Ricketts ("Smiley Obama") Storyboard
Reading the pictures and the copy, the larger focus of the attack is on character and Obama's disposition ... and then racism.
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Newsflash: Franco Still Dead and Obama Still Black
The real news here is that swift boat season is underway!
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Martin – Zimmerman: Are You My Mother?
On a practical level, it might make perfect sense that Zimmerman's wife and family remain nowhere to be seen. However, it's hard not to draw inferences.
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George Zimmerman's Lawyer's Dadaist Press Conference
This press conference/photo op with Zimmerman's limbo lawyers offers one of the stranger collections of otherwise standard press conference images I've seen in a while.
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Trayvon Through Another Black Man-Child: Three Views From Photographer Mario Tama
Likely close in age to the eleven-year-old Tayvon Martin in the widely adopted photo of the dead seventeen-year-old, these photos of Seminole County resident Jayden Jackson by Getty photographer Mario Tama draw out different dimensions of the tragedy.
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Juxtaposition of the Day: Gagged
A juxtaposition of the forces that may come together in November to represent exactly what the Obama administration wants: an energized base of support.
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Surveilling the Death of Anna Brown
Race, health care, and surveillance culture all come into play in a death that otherwise would have gone unnoticed.
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Race in America: How Little Some Pictures Have Changed
Trayvon Martin's shooting had brought to the surface many racial issues that really haven't changed much since the sixties.
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