Humanities Category
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Social Justice can be broadly understood as the pursuit of a “fair and just distribution
of rights, opportunities, and resources” in a society and across the globe (Cramme
and Diamond 2009) which includes the “right of all human beings to benefit from a
safe and pleasant environment” (The United Nations Department of Economic and Social
Affairs 2006).
While Social Justice movements acknowledge that “poverty reduction and overall improvements
in the standard of living are attainable goals,” they do not fail to recognize that
the already “enormous gap in the distribution of wealth, income and public benefits
is growing ever wider, reflecting a general trend that is morally unfair, politically
unwise and economically unsound” (The United Nations Department of Economic and Social
Affairs 2006). The poverty rate of African Americans, for instance, has been three
times that of whites, whose median net worth is ten times that of black families (Kendi
2019), and racism, economic inequality, and the historical marginalization of people
of color are not only apparent in the long history of colonial modernity, but in our
own communities.
Citations
Cramme, Olaf and Patrick Diamond. 2009. “Rethinking Social Justice in the Global Age.”
Pp. 3–20 in Social Justice in the Global Age, edited by Olaf Cramme and Patrick Diamond.
Malden, MA: Polity Press.
Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist. Random House: New York, 2019.
Social Justice in an Open World: The Role of The United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs: Division for Social Policy and Development. United Nations: New York, 2006.
REGISTRATION:
A $10.00 Entry Fee is required of all participants. Payment of the fee allows students
to submit multiple entries to multiple contests, subject to the limitations of the
individual contests. Students entering multiple contests need only pay the fee once.
This fee is due by Tuesday, March 14th at 5:00pm. Visit our ticket website to pay your entry fee under the event labeled "Celebration of the Humanities 2022-2023 Entry." If you have any questions, please call the Arts Division office at 209-575-6081.
You must pay the $10 Entry Fee if you wish to enter the Celebration of the Humanities
Contest.
To enter, please fill out the Entry Form.
REQUIREMENTS AND LIMITATIONS:
If you are submitting more than one entry, you will need to fill out an entry form
for each contest you wish to enter.
The Humanities category asks contestants to submit work on any aspect of social justice in any creative medium.
Contestants may, for instance, examine, create, or highlight works and artifacts that reflect or have influenced social justice movements in the Central Valley or the world at large.
Submissions will be evaluated based on their engagement with theme of social justice and their creative or critical quality. Entries should be original work.
Submissions may be in any category so long as they address the theme of social justice (art, sculpture, painting, digital graphic, writing of any form or genre, film, photography, music, dance, comic book or graphic narrative, multimedia or multimodal compositions are all welcome).
Visit the Celebration of the Humanities Home Page to see Contest Rules
For further information, contact:
Sara Tesfai at 209-575-6802 or tesfais@mjc.edu & Chad Redwing at 209-575-6454 or redwingc@mjc.edu