africana exam 2 quotes Flashcards
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B Dubois, 1903
One ever feels his twoness—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B Dubois, 1903
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor—all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked—who is good? Not that men are ignorant—what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.
The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B Dubois, 1903
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self.”
The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B Dubois, 1903
The black men of America have a duty to perform—a duty stern and delicate—a forward movement to oppose a part of the work of their greatest leader. So far as Mr. Washington preaches Thrift, Patience, and Industrial Training for the masses, we must hold up his hands and strive with him, rejoicing in his honors and glorying in the strength of this Joshua called of God and of man to lead the headless host.
The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B Dubois, 1903
…an expression of long-term transnational relations and of the world events that generated and were in turn affected by particular global social movements.
Introduction in The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States, 2010
Black women are not merely a national influence, but also a significant link between the peoples of color throughout the world
Keisha Blain and Tiffany Gill, Black Women and the Complexities of Internationalism, 2019
Black women’s sexual vulnerability and powerlessness as victims of rape and domestic violence”
Darlene Clark Hine, Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West, 1989
They embraced black beauty, extolled pride in their African heritage, promoted the study and teaching of African and African American history, experimented with new forms of black political power, practiced African cultural traditions, positively identified as part of the African diaspora, and pushed for transnational activism and Pan-African alliances.
Julia Wood, “ ‘What That Meant to me’: SNCC Women, the 1964 Guinea Trip and Black Internationalism” in To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism 2019
“Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?”
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (1963)
Importance of love: “but what was the purpose of my salvation if it did not permit me to show love toward others?”
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (1963)
The four frames are abstract liberalism, naturalization, cultural racism, and minimization of racism. Of the four frames, abstract liberalism is the most important, as it constitutes the foundation of the new racial ideology.
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, “The Central Frames of Color-Blind Racism” in Racism Without Racists, 2009
The intersectional experience is greater than the sum of racism and sexism. It is a unique experience of compounded and connected disadvantages.
Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex” (1989)
Because the intersectional experience is greater than the sum of racism and sexism, any analysis that does not take intersectionality into account cannot sufficiently address the particular manner in which Black women are subordinated.
Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex” (1989)
When Black women are talked about at all, they are described as a problem.
Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex” (1989)
The problem, then, is that antidiscrimination law, as it has evolved to date, is ill-equipped to capture the particular ways in which stereotyping and the distinct experiences of subordination can combine to create additional forms of discrimination.
Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex” (1989)
To capture the applicability of black feminism to anti-discrimination law, it is necessary to analyze the conditions of our lives in all their simultaneous complexity.
Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex” (1989)
Because the intersectional experience is frequently delegitimized, it means that the ways in which Black women experience and articulate their oppression will often not fit neatly within pre-established categories.
Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex” (1989)
theory of and for gays and lesbians of color
E. Patrick Johnson, “ ‘Quare’ Studies Or (Almost) Everything I know About Queer Studies I Learned from My Grandmother” in Text and Performance Quartely, 2001
inherent connectedness of Blackness and transness
Riley Snorton, “Introduction” to Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (2017)
The challenge for tourist and host alike is to discern the agenda behind tropes of tradition and family performed along the way. The Asante people of Ghana
Sandra Richards, “What is to Be Remembered?: Tourism to Ghana’s Slave Castle-Dungeons” in Theatre Journal, 2005
To all these issues of identity and difference, role playing, required labor disguised as voluntary hospitality, and mediated authenticity, cultural travel to slave sites adds several more: How is a history of pain to be represented so that people will want to visit (and revisit) the site? Must a teleology of progress away from the original source of pain be invoked? Whose story is to be narrated? In that enslavement meant being dispossessed of one’s body, let alone of any material possessions, how is absence to be memorialized?
Sandra Richards, “What is to Be Remembered?: Tourism to Ghana’s Slave Castle-Dungeons” in Theatre Journal, 2005
Antigua is a small island in the Caribbean. Antigua is one of the islands that Columbus sighted when he was exploring what he thought was a new route to Asia.
Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place, 1988
The thing you have always suspected about yourself the minute you become a tourist is true: A tourist is an ugly human being.
Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place, 1988
