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Alicia Garza also refers to the tenuousness of citizenship for black folks, saying that citizenship is conditional: “This is the harsh reality for black people in America today. That we are expected to participate in democracy while receiving conditional citizenship in return.” Gender, class, ability and other categories can further compound the conditionality of citizenship for people who might otherwise be “citizens”.
With this reality of “Conditional Citizenship” in mind and in hopes of the asserting universal rights beyond citizenship, artists set out to create prints for each of the thirty articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This project was inspired by Meredith Stern’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights print project and developed in a class taught by Aaron Hughes with Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project.
M2 193(2)
Alicia Garza also refers to the tenuousness of citizenship for black folks, saying that citizenship is conditional: “This is the harsh reality for black people in America today. That we are expected to participate in democracy while receiving conditional citizenship in return.” Gender, class, ability and other categories can further compound the conditionality of citizenship for people who might otherwise be “citizens”.
With this reality of “Conditional Citizenship” in mind and in hopes of the asserting universal rights beyond citizenship, artists set out to create prints for each of the thirty articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This project was inspired by Meredith Stern’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights print project and developed in a class taught by Aaron Hughes with Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project.