Based on Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States
- What is IMPERIALISM?
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John Gast (21 December 1842, Berlin, Prussia – date of death unknown) was a Prussian-born painter and lithographer who lived and worked most of his life in Brooklyn, New York. He is most famous for painting American Progress, an allegory of Manifest Destiny that was widely disseminated in engravings and chromolithographic prints. (via Wikipedia)
Consider the following:
- that justice took over 6 years to be realized
- and that it had to be accomplished through the federal government as opposed to the state criminal justice system.
- and that Civil Rights violations were the prosecuted offenses (much like Rodney King)
via flickr.com
This print was created by Chicago-based artist Billy Dee for the "Art Against Incarceration" Show, sponsored by Project NIA. He is also the illustrator behind the Prison Industrial Complex.
In Swahili, NIA means "with purpose." Project NIA’s mission is to dramatically reduce the reliance on arrest, detention, and incarceration for addressing youth crime and to instead promote the use of restorative and transformative practices, a concept that relies on community-based alternatives.
What does the title of this illustration mean to you, personally?