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  2. American ghettos - Wikipedia

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    Graffiti on wall in Chicago ghetto "American ghetto" usually denotes an urban neighborhood with crime, gang violence, and extreme poverty, [2] [3] with a significant number of minority citizens living in it. Their origins are manifold. Historically, violence has been used to intimidate certain demographics into remaining in ghettos. [4]

  3. Man One - Wikipedia

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    Man One (b. Alejandro Poli Jr., 1971, in East Los Angeles) is a Los Angeles-based Mexican-American mural and graffiti artist best known for popularizing West Coast graffiti to an international audience and defining graffiti as a serious contemporary art form.

  4. Graffiti - Wikipedia

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    Graffiti has played an important role within the street art scene in the Middle East and North Africa , especially following the events of the Arab Spring of 2011 or the Sudanese Revolution of 2018/19. [42] Graffiti is a tool of expression in the context of conflict in the region, allowing people to raise their voices politically and socially.

  5. Graffiti in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A heavily tagged subway car in New York City in 1973. By the mid-1970s, most standards had been set in graffiti writing and culture. The heaviest "bombing" in U.S. history took place in this period, partially because of the economic restraints on New York City, which limited its ability to combat this art form with graffiti removal programs or transit maintenance.

  6. Better Out Than In - Wikipedia

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    No other graffiti artist has a PR machine remotely like Banksy's," he writes, arguing Banksy is more of a "promo man" than an artist. [ 70 ] Will Ellsworth-Jones, author of Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall writes that Better Out Than In shows Banksy's range of mediums has grown to incorporate multi-media and performance-based works.

  7. Piece (graffiti) - Wikipedia

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    A piece using the letters EKOM. Pieces, short for masterpieces, are a form of graffiti that involves large, elaborate and detailed letter forms. They are one of the main forms of modern graffiti, along with tags and throw ups, and are the least controversial of the three [1] and least likely to be seen as vandalism.

  8. Death of Michael Stewart - Wikipedia

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    Michael Jerome Stewart (May 9, 1958 [1] – September 28, 1983) was an African-American man who received recognition after his death following an arrest by New York City Transit Police for writing graffiti in soft-tip marker or using an aerosol can on a New York City Subway wall at the First Avenue station. [2]

  9. West Bank Wall graffiti art - Wikipedia

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    The graffiti is on the Palestinian side of the wall and primarily expresses anti-wall sentiments. [3] The graffiti, written in both English and Arabic, includes "flags and fists, slogans and insults, statements of pain and loss", serving as a "visual testimony" to the suffering of Palestinians under the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. [6]