David Campos – Notes


Notes and Citations

This was a project deeply rooted in research. I owe a deep gratitude to the work that inspired this work. I owe a deep gratitude to those that put in the work. 

  1. Education Security Map 1: It refers to an analysis pointed out by “The Resegregation of Jefferson County” by Nikole Hannah-Jones. The outline is of the high school boundary map of Fresno Unified.
  2. Education Security Map 2: The outline is from the “Residential Security Map” of Fresno, Ca created by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation 1936.
  3. In The District Court of The United: This is the petition filed by the parents of the students. Petition; 3/2/1945; Civil Case File 4292; Gonzalo Mendez et al v. Westminster School District of Orange County et al, 3/2/1945 – 7/18/1947; Civil Case Files, 1938 – 1995; Records of District Courts of the United States, Record Group 21; National Archives at Riverside, Perris, CA. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/petition-mendez, October 17, 2023]
  4. United: this is the judgment and Injunction ruling that the School Districts Could No Longer Segregate Students. Judgement and Injunction; 3/21/1946; Gonzalo Mendez et al v. Westminster School District of Orange County et al, 3/2/1945 – 7/18/1947; Civil Case Files, 1938 – 1995; Records of District Courts of the United States, Record Group 21; National Archives at Riverside, Perris, CA. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/judgement-and-injunction, October 17, 2023]
  5. School Boundary Segregation Map: The Photo in the back is a screenshot of the Fresno Unified School District, 2023-2024 Elementary School Boundary Map. The is all found text from fresnounified.org/enroll/
  6. Multilevel Marketing School System: magnet schools shouldn’t exist.
  7. Where the Sun Sets: It uses a photo by Matt Artz titled “grayscale photo of typewriters on tables” https://unsplash.com/photos/NP4mDCN0PIU?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLink
  8. Later: this was informed by reading archived articles on integration efforts of Fresno Unified in The Fresno Bee.
  9. to prune those kids: It uses the following photo as a background: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. “Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers’ camp. Kern County, California” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1937. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8d6b36f0-8843-0136-6041-05b80a2beed2
  10. failure to stop: Every dot is punctation enlarged. Even the rectangle is a version of a punctuation that has been enlarged.
  11. Discipline: This uses the following photo as a background: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division, The New York Public Library. “Negro Children” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1935 – 1943. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6ac86cb0-d56d-0131-db1b-58d385a7bbd0

It also uses the data from the Miseducation project by ProPublica. The data is from 2018. https://projects.propublica.org/miseducation/

  1. School Was the Place Where: Uses my middle school yearbook photo.
  2. English Class | Past, Present, and Future Tense: Uses the following photo: Collier, John, Jr, photographer. Questa, New Mexico. Grade school. Jan. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/2017846152/
  1. List Their Highest Level of Education: This uses a collage of photos taken by me of my father, grandfather, and myself. Their photographs are from 12 years ago. Mine is from two years ago.
  2. Bullard Pride Redacted 1 & 2: It’s a redacted article from The Fresno Bee. “Fresno Bee, Tracy Correa. “Bullard secession proposed – Group considers effort to separate from Fresno Unified.” 6 Feb. 2011

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