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Africana Studies Print

 

Peace, I’m so excited to introduce this new piece to you “Africana Studies”. This is a print featuring that phrase and an antique afro pick. The origin of the idea comes from Black, African American, African studies departments in colleges. I hope this print can apply to high schools one day as well, but this is basically an attempt to make a beautiful and affirming decoration for an office, classroom, or building that specializes in the study of Black culture. It could totally be in a home or bedroom but my aim is to reach educators specifically with this whether they be in a larger “Ethnic Studies” department or a sole focus of study at their institution.


Series: This print will be a part of a series of new prints focusing on Black, Asian, Raza, Indigenous studies or programs from an Ethnic Studies program. Stay tuned.

Did you see the “Ethnic Studies” print pack w/ stickers?

November 21, 2020
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Black Is Beautiful Sticker

 

Juiced to share this with you all. A gold foil “Black Is Beautiful” Sticker!!  Cop one!
Here’s a new sticker with a classic phrase “Black is Beautiful” first uttered before my mother was born in an effort to give African Americans pride. Not only in their skin color, but their heritage. The term “Black” is one of many used to describe humans with a darker skin hue but the descendants of Africans in the US did not create the classifications for race, we just flipped them and gave them new meanings.

For me personally, I started to use this phrase publicly as part of a series of drawings and paintings celebrating unsung figures of Black history here in the US and abroad. I love the feeling of affirmation the term gives and hope you too can resonate with it whether you consider yourself “Black” or not. We can all affirm the “Black Is Beautiful” as a statement of pride and a resistance to centuries of “anti-black” imagery, descriptions, and racist messages from the past and today.
Did you catch the last “POC POV” sticker?

November 14, 2020
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Ethnic Studies in Every School

This is a print of a recent painting I made for the 16th anniversary art show of the “Trust Your Struggle Collective” in Sacramento California. I am a product of Ethnic Studies as I was able to take classes in it at Berkeley High School (California) and at San Francisco State University.


What is Ethnic Studies? To me, it is a chance to learn about history and cultural from a people of color perspective. Typically US and world history is Eurocentric and leaves out a tremendous amount of stories and history from Black, Indigenous Native Americans, Asians, and Latin@s. I believe very strongly that every school from elementary school up to college should have mandatory ethnic studies classes to educate all students.


After being a student, I had the privilege to be a presenter as part of the Trust Your Struggle Collective in the late 2000’s Ethnic Studies Conferences held at SFSU.


Check out the close ups below! You want a print? Go here.


Did you take classes in Ethnic studies? If so comment with your experience.



December 11, 2019
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