Exploring Injustice

Exposing Racism

Manzanar from guard towerIn 1943, Ansel Adams (1902-1984), America's best-known photographer, documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese Americans interned there during World War II. In "Suffering under a Great Injustice": Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar,

Manzanar Internment Camp

Catholic Church

Examine the photo. With a partner, write a list of hypotheses about the photo. Use these questions to guide you:

Who are the subjects of the photo?What do you think the photographer was thinking when he took this photo? Why do you think that?What major events in the United States were taking place when this photo was taken?

Examine the photo. With a partner, write a list of hypotheses about the photo. Use these questions to guide you:

Who is the young woman ahead of the crowd carrying a book?Why does the crowd behind her seem angry?What do you think is happening in this photo?What else do you notice about the photo?

Who are the subjects of the photo?What do you think the photographer was thinking when he took this photo? Why do you think that?What major events in the United States were taking place when this photo was taken?

Exposing Gender Inequality

Title IX: Gender discrimination in schoolsYour parents, aunts and uncles, or grandparents likely remember the days before Title IX. Prior to 1972, girls and boys didn’t have equal access to learning opportunities. As an example, girls took home economics while boys took auto shop or wood shop. Neither sex was allowed to take the other’s classes.But unequal access went beyond restrictions on classes by gender. It also affected opportunities for girls in sports, math and science, technology and higher education and did not protect them from sexual harassment or being sent to separate, often inferior, schools if they became pregnant.

Anti-Immigration: Arizona SB 1070

The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act is a legislative act in the U.S. state of Arizona that at the time of passage was the broadest and strictest anti-illegal immigration measure in recent U.S. history

Anti-Immigration: Arizona SB 1070

• U.S. federal law requires all aliens over the age of 14 who remain in the United States for longer than 30 days[5] to register with the U.S. government,[6] and to have registration documents in their possession at all times; violation of this requirement is a federal misdemeaner crime.

Anti-Immigration: Arizona SB 1070

The Arizona Act additionally made it a state misdemeanor crime for an alien to be in Arizona without carrying the required documents,[8] required that state law enforcement officers attempt to determine an individual's immigration status during a "lawful stop, detention or arrest", or during a "lawful contact" not specific to any activity[9] when there is reasonable suspicion that the individual is an illegal immigrant.[10]

• Critics of the legislation say it encourages racial profiling, similar to the way Germany treated Jewish people in the 1930’s and 1940’s.

Anti-Immigration: Arizona SB 1070

In June 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the case Arizona v. United States, upholding the provision requiring immigration status checks during law enforcement stops but striking down three other provisions as violations of the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution.[27]

Injustice Journal

Briefly describe a time in your life where you felt you were treated unfairly due to race, nationality, ethnicity, age, appearance, gender, or sexuality. If you have not experienced this, either write about an injustice you a) witnessed, or b) you’ve read about (or seen a film about)

Try to be as detailed as you can. What did you learn from this experience? How did it change how you felt or acted after this event?