lauracgonzalez01
Expectations Vs. Reality
Description: It’s a Tajin bottle next to the Cesar Chávez statue
Why: In a similar note to the earlier example, the Tajin bottle represents the LatinX community on campus. I chose the Cesar Chávez statue because of how important his movement was to the overall LatinX community. Once again, UT prides itself for its diversity and inclusion initiatives but in reality, they have a long way to go! I originally chose the Tajin bottle as a joke but then I realized that although the Tajin and popular culture don’t accurately represent the LatinX community, people at Ut still only view it as such. The photo aims to show how the initiatives being taken to include the LatinX community on campus can be seen as shallow and inauthentic because they only focus on the “fun” surface-level aspects of the culture and dismiss the actual real struggles that they face.
Expectations Vs. Reality
Description: It’s a Tajin bottle next to the Cesar Chávez statue
Why: In a similar note to the earlier example, the Tajin bottle represents the LatinX community on campus. I chose the Cesar Chávez statue because of how important his movement was to the overall LatinX community. Once again, UT prides itself for its diversity and inclusion initiatives but in reality, they have a long way to go! I originally chose the Tajin bottle as a joke but then I realized that although the Tajin and popular culture don’t accurately represent the LatinX community, people at Ut still only view it as such. The photo aims to show how the initiatives being taken to include the LatinX community on campus can be seen as shallow and inauthentic because they only focus on the “fun” surface-level aspects of the culture and dismiss the actual real struggles that they face.