SenderHannah_advancing insight

This found image advances insight into discourses of racial inequality; specificially, the discourse of City of Austin government regarding racial inequality in the context of the City's efforts to reduce racial inequality. The image is a loaded image: a familiar powerpoint presentation slide that indicates an offical awareness of an issue, and a project to address that issue. The ethnographer draws our attention to how the issue of racial inequality is perceived and framed by the City: as one which characterises brown and black people by need, lacking, and helplessness in the top slide, and by violence and oppression in the bottom slide. The caption tells the audience about impressions of such a discourse, and encourages a double-take: is this the only perception and framing of racial inequality we could possibly take? Whose perception and framing is this? Is there another way of seeing it and representing it? This image promotes a critical gaze to a seemingly progressive project, and enlivens a productive dissatisfaction, if not anger.