This is a found image, which the ethnographer describes as a 'go to' slide from the City of Austin's repository of project slides. There are several notable things about this image: the first is the connotation of powerpoint slides, which imply an institutional knowledge of an issue; the second is the inclusion of stick figures and apple trees to communicate a complex issue 'simply', which implies an ability to understand an issue and to do something about it. The aesthetic sits between communicative and intentional: this is what the problem is and we know what we need to do to address it (if you keep watching this presentation, all the stick figures will be in the same position and you will understand the issue and how it is going to be fixed). The ethnographer's inclusion of this image and his caption implies the failure of the administrative body to understand and frame racial inequality. It promotes a critical gaze which undermines blind faith in institutional bodies and their projects.
The image is a cominbation of a found image and a created image, but I am unclear as to who created the second image.