Black Experience: Men

Black Experience: Men 2020

While engaging in the classroom about the African-American/Black-American history, the initiation of the usual topic would begin with the Transatlantic Slave Trade period and continue to the contemporary view of black people in the United States. This piece was designed to highlight the decay of black people from once having the freedoms and luxuries to media targets for dismantling the agenda of active or silent protest for injustice. The first individual was the warrior persona before the introduction of colonialism. The second, the 400 years of chattel slavery and removal of identity. The third, the rise of the Black Panther Party to empower the black community through the harsh environment surrounding the Jim Crow era. The fourth is representing the contemporary black man using a hooded man to represent the shooting of Trayvon Martin eight years ago that set the precedent for the continuing injustice of killing minorities without probable cause nor allowing for deserved repercussions for the perpetrators. The use of silhouettes was designed to allow the user to focus more on the static image's motion as it shows the only a simple segment to a whole epidemic that has affected countless numbers of minorities.

“ Slavery didn’t end, it just went by another name”

-Douglas A. Blackmon