Rich Frishman: Ghosts of Segregation: Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight – LENSCRATCH

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Rich Frishman: Ghosts of Segregation: Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight – LENSCRATCH

Ghosts of Segregation photographically explores the vestiges of America’s racism as seen in the vernacular landscape: Schools for “colored” children, theatre entrances and restrooms for “colored people,” lynching sites, juke joints, jails, hotels and bus stations. What is past is prologue. Segregation is as much current events as it is history.  These ghosts haunt us

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/06/180706/

This haunting collection of photography and essays illuminates the lingering architectural and geographical remains from America’s history of segregation, slavery, and institutional racism.

http://lenscratch.com/2024/06/180706/