Have you ever been stopped and frisk by the police?
In New York City, a neighborhood collaborated with academics, students, community leaders to produce research on how young Black and Brown men are impacted by the Stop and Frisk policy of the NYPD and here’s what they came up with.
Good day, world!
In the coming months, the students of SOC 333 at the University of Portland are gonna be coming up with some fantastic projects!
We’ll be using this website to publish our process in studying particular forms of social inequality. More importantly, you’ll get to see how everyday people are resisting inequality in creative and inspiring ways!
For example, below you’ll see a mass mobilization of tens of thousands of Filipinos marching on the street on the day that the current Philippine President Noynoy Aquino delivered his State of the Nation address. Artist-activists spend weeks building, sculpting and painting this 50-foot effigy and by burning their art work they are displaying the fire of the Filipino people for genuine change.
Stay tuned to this website, you WILL learn something!