A Tour To Museum Of The African Diaspora Since the information that we get at the Oakland Museum of California is so little that I can hardly get to know about the topic. I headed to MOAD(Museum Of The African Diaspora) this weekend to learn more about the issue. The museum is known for its activities, which I am not lucky enough to catch one.

Coffee, Rhum, Sugar & Gold

the influence of colonization

It is an interesting topic about how the colonist have changed our lifestyle and our work style. The exhibition contains a lot of staff that focus on this topic. There are people with their head painted black wear suits and sexy stockings, which used to be clothing that white people wear. This situation happened to China as well, with the development of office culture, more and more Chinese company began to ask their employees to wear a suit to work. It always considered a behavior of modernization. After seeing that exhibition, I realize that this kind of behavior is nothing more than a new form of colonization.

Everybody Loves the Sunshine

Beauty politics

Everybody Loves the Sunshine is an exhibition full of collections made of human hairs. Long hairs are often considered a significant symbolization of African American and Mexican American and plays an important role in racial identity. The artist expresses her sense of beauty through her artwork by twisting the hair into the traditional African style. Beauty politics is a new topic for me, so I did a little research about it, and I found some interesting conclusions. "How we should look like?" and "What is beauty?" can mostly decide our self-identity, and finally became a political issue.

Other

There are also other exhibitions at the museum, expressing the fear and anger against violence, and a photography exhibition about how image evolved under the influence of the internet, but these are not my priority.