Research
Painting a Better Future
A research-based argument I wrote for Stanford’s Program in Writing and Rhetoric on how graffiti, murals, and defaced monuments give marginalized communities a place in public memory that official monuments have denied them.
The argument
The paper’s thesis, in its own words.
Defacements and graffiti are more than unstructured chaos, but instead are public artistic expressions which advocate for marginalized communities by intervening in public memory.
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Painting a Better Future
Sources
Thirteen works cited, from academic journals to local news.
- CNN
- ESPN
- RAND Corporation
- Rolling Stone
- Sage Journals
- The Arts Fuse
- The Daily Californian
- University of Washington Magazine
- WCVB Boston
- WRIC Richmond
- McKinley Park News
- MyArtBroker
- Graffiti Street