Community Response to COVID-19: Assessing Support Systems for Marginalized Populations Through Photo Essay and Textual Analysis
Overview
This assignment requires students to conduct a local community assessment examining how their community responded to COVID-19 impacts on a specific marginalized population (homeless individuals, domestic violence survivors, elderly, inmates, or low-income communities). Through a photo essay combined with textual analysis, students evaluate organizational responses, community support, resistance efforts, and consider how universal basic income might address systemic inequities.
What this coursework covers
- Community assessment of COVID-19 response to marginalized populations
- Analysis of allied organizations and community leadership supporting marginalized groups
- Examination of resistance, community support, and opposition within the community
- Evaluation of basic income as policy solution toward collective wellbeing
- Photo essay documentation (minimum 10 photographs) with integrated narrative
- Dissemination strategy for community impact
Preview
You have an opportunity to assess how your local community has responded to CoVid and what this has meant for one particular marginalized community where you live (i.e. homeless, domestic violence survivors, the elderly in elder care facilities, inmates, low-income people, low-income workers or another marginalized community). I want you to focus on one group of marginalized peoples in your community and how your community has responded (or not) to keep them safe during CoVid. After you have done your assessment, I want you to look at what organizations, leaders, have become allies to support the marginalized group you have chosen to study. Have members of this marginalized group protested or resisted in any way the manner in which they have been treated during CoVid? Have community members supported this marginalized group in new ways to try to ensure the health of this marginalized group? Have some people in your community opposed the care of this marginalized group? Have they accepted and supported and even promoted “the myths of separation and scarcity” as Oliva Mater, author of Starborn video says? Also, I want you to think about how Basic Income would have helped (or not) the particular marginalized group you have chosen. Would Basic Income have helped move us toward a “collective dream”, a way that we could “take a breath together,” in the words of Mater. |