12 Aug Post a picture of a cultural symbol or material object

• Choose a neighborhood with which you are familiar (you can use the traditional/official classification you have in your town for this exercise); provide some characteristics of this neighborhood (e.g., location, population, etc.).
• Post a picture of a cultural symbol or material object (e.g., a shop, a store, a banner, a corner, a mural, a bar, a wall, etc.) that is relevant in that neighborhood – preferably this is a picture you yourself took with your own phone or camera; describe the symbol or object illustrated in the picture you took.
• Explain how the cultural symbol or material object you photographed fosters a sense of community in that neighborhood and specify which social groups are expressed by that symbol or objects

120 words, Chapter 8. The neighborhood I pick is Spanish Harlem (East Harlem) and the mural I picked it attached below… the artist is james de la Vega and a link about him is attached below. The woman in the mural is ceila cruz, famous cuban singer…..a link about her is below as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_De_La_Vega

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Cruz

In this link is the mural + the textbook : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1O-6_lp0ny9…