Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White that appeared in
Life magazine above the headline “The Flood Leaves its Victims on the Bread Line,” February 15, 1937. Photo: Getty Images.
Disasters and Social Reproduction: Crisis Response Between the State and Community, by Peer Illner. London: Pluto Press, 2020. 208 pages.
Mutual Aid:
Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next), by Dean Spade. New York and London: Verso, 2020. 128 pages.
IN ONE OF photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White’s most iconic Depression-era images, a seamless, whitewashed vision of the good life is undercut by a segregated breadline. Tightly composed, the picture almost stages a return of the repressed, as material casualties of “the American Way” buttress but also contravene the billboard’s sanguine promise. Bourke-White’s irony is acerbic, condensed, and at the same time capacious; as art historian John Tagg points out, the absurdity of the background graphic’s “cynical corporat
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In this 2019 photo provided by Pocho Sanchez, Daniela Dominguez, assistant professor in counseling psychology at University of San Francisco, chats with children from Honduras at a migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico. Previous Next
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Aid networks supported by communities of color
Groups work to ensure everyone can receive help
CHRISTINE FERNANDO | Associated Press
Amid the unfolding disaster of COVID-19 have been moments of generosity, whether it s people pulling together support for college students who ve been tossed out of dorms, or collecting money to help restaurant workers, street vendors and movie theater employees pay for their medicine, groceries and rent.
Amid the unfolding disaster of COVID-19 have been moments of generosity, whether it's people pulling together support for college students who've been tossed out of dorms, or collecting money to help restaurant workers, street vendors and movie theater employees pay for their medicine, groceries and rent.
Amid the unfolding disaster of COVID-19 have been moments of generosity, whether it’s people pulling together support for college students who’ve been tossed out of dorms, or collecting money to help restaurant workers, street vendors and movie theatre employees pay for their medicine, groceries and rent. These mutual aid support networks, in which communities take […]