Representation
A common stereotype of Black women, often depicted as an overweight, asexual, docile dark skinned woman.
What is a mammy?
Where is McDonalds?
According to Levine, one man's religion is another man's this.
What is superstition?
Common name for prominent group of abolitionists who also advocated for women's suffrage.
Who were the Garrisonians?
A response to the binary of Black enchantment and Black tragedy
What is the politics of joy?
Name of the film screened in the White House by President Woodrow Wilson.
What is Birth of a Nation?
What is a stranger?
The most notorious animal star of trickster tales.
Who is Brer Rabbit?
Actually wrote three autobiographies in his lifetime.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
A withholding of the recognition of the oppressor's power and authority over one's life
What is refusal?
Stuart Hall stated that this is hidden within mass media.
What is ideology?
Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X were all assassinated before this age.
What is 40?
The assertion that slave tales were didactic in nature is meant to convey that they were this.
What is instructive?
Author of one of the first slave narratives to gain widespread readership that incorporated life in Africa.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
Evokes a power shift.
What is laughter?
His goal was to devise strategies to hear the voices that had, up until that point, been effectively silenced by historical neglect.
Who is Lawrence Levine?
Kelley describes this as the political culture that manifest itself in daily conversations, folklore, jokes, songs and other cultural practices.
What are the politics of the everyday?
According to Levine, these three elements constituted the sacred world of Black slaves.
What are music, religion, and folk beliefs?
What are everyday forms of resistance?
The ultimate expression of Black humanity.
What is Black joy?
These provide a measure of safety and solace by legitimizing voices that are typically silenced.
What are hush harbors?
Both Baldwin and Langston Hughes identified this word as being unconsciously associated with all of society's virtues.
What is white?
An important distinction in slave tales that referenced theft.
What is stealing v. taking?
The person who transcribed Jordan Anderson's response to his former enslaver.
Who is Valentine Winters?
These two things work best when we are programmed in particular ways to make sense of the world around us.
What are race and racism?