Edges of EmpireMichael Epley KNW 2399 April 30, 2015 Ball-Phillips Impact on Colonization India has a long history of mixed culture, views, and who’s in power. Great Britain colonized India and forced a culture shock from day one. The impact left by Great Britain will stay with India’s culture forever. The caste system
Lily and Parbhoo Children Lily by Winfield Scott shows a young Mexican girl in a white rough-spun tunic posed on a balustrade and leaning against a pillar, with one leg crossed in front of her and the other hanging off the side. Her left hand rests on her hip, while her right hand loosely holds
Gender Oppression, inequality and Gender Roles In India and Southwestern United States: How British Colonial Rule and American Internal Colonialism Perpetuated Gender Roles and Oppression Photographs serve as a historical window into the past. Sentiments, feelings and societal customs can be physically manifested through the observation of photographical images. The digital collections in the Degolyer
The Exploitation of Colonialism One of the most important lessons of History is that it should never be forgotten. While ancient books and literature have been the cornerstone to remembrance, they are not as real as a photograph. Photographs capture history and allow an audience to see through the eyes of the photographer in that
As I stood in the reading room of the DeGolyer library, I struggled to process the sheer amount of visual information being thrown at me. Before me stood three long tables which were scattered with various photographs, frail and aging, their warm, brown tints calling me closer. The DeGolyer library at Southern Methodist University
The Railroad’s Impact on India and Mexico International history illustrates the extent to which new transport inventions changed human life and the international economy. Railroads connected territories that were once isolated. They changed international trade, by decreasing the unit costs of transporting an innumerable amount of goods from textiles to agricultural products. Suddenly, goods were
Just How Equal is America Really? – The Dehumanization of Colonized Peoples A common issue within photojournalism begs the question, at what point are the subject of the photo’s privacy rights violated? This issue dates back to colonial Mexico and India, and can be seen through the pictures within the Thomas Hudson Thatcher Collection of Mexico
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This photograph is called Tipos, Mexicanos, Esatdo de Mexico and was created by Abel Briquet. In the photo, you can see two men, who are most likely workers, with four cows and a large wagon full of some sort of crop. It is easy to infer that the men pictured are working men
The title of this photo is Bhundarees, and it was taken by William Johnson as part of his Photographs of Western India Album. The three men in the picture are barely clothed and appear to be malnourished. This gives off the impression that they are poor. Two of the men are carrying what seem to