The Reality of Oppression in America

Image of Honors student, Dean Khan, who participated and presented in the Spring 2021 HEP Symposium, as part of the Radical Visions panel. His presentation featured his website project titled, "The Reality of Oppression in America: An Interactive Website.

The Reality of Oppression in America:

An interactive website

March 18, 2021

Student: Dean Khan
Major: Political Science and Finance

I designed my project, "The Reality of Oppression in America", during the spring of 2020 right before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Within my website, I discuss the realities that certain marginalized groups, specifically Black Americans, face within the United States, the methods in which they've addressed these realities, and potential solutions that have arisen as a result of these realities. My website focuses on a range of institutions that have historically and systemically played an active discriminatory role against Black Americans and how that history has created a modern system that systematically holds back black communities and people.

"Racism and oppression in U.S. society require not only physical policies being passed but also societal movements and changes along with them. Changing our mindsets on race, poverty, and individualism are just the beginnings of imagining a world where real change makes an impact."
-Dean Khan

Presentation Website

Visit Dean Khan's website, "The Reality of Oppression in America: An Interactive Website, or click on the webpage image below.

 

Link to Dean Khan's website, "The Reality of Oppression in America: An Interactive Website. Image of webpage titled "The Forms of Resistance to American Institutions on Communities of Color" from Dean Khan's Spring 2021 HEP Symposium Presentation as part of the Radical Visions panel on March 18, 2021. Image includes 3 art pieces side by side which are part of the Black Lives Matter movement. Colorful pieces. Slogans: Our future is in our Return (Young African American standing over the Earth with a wand in his hand); Being Oppressed Means the Absence of Choices (colorful art piece of African American woman wearing traditional hair wrap head piece; Black Lives Matter (African American children drawing on chalkboard.