Military
-The close and influential relationship between a country’s military, defense industry, and government
-How economic interests and political power can intertwine with military force
-Arms manufacturers
Military Industrial Complex
The well-being and rights of Black people regarding pregnancy, childbirth, and family planning (racialized womb)
Reproductive Health
-racial segregation was constitutional as long as facilities were “separate but equal.”
-Gave federal approval to state and local Jim Crow laws
Plessy V. Ferguson
-Post Rosa Parks bus protest
-Black leaders and community members organized a boycott of the city’s bus system.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The state of being separated from God, moral truth, or inner purpose, where a person is physically alive but spiritually or morally "dead"
Spiritual Death
-During WWII
-Linked civil rights to patriotism
-Mobilized Black communities nationwide
Double V Campaign and Significance
-fail to address structural inequalities, intersectional oppression, and systemic barriers
-Limited Attention to Intersectionality
-Limited Critique of Capitalism and Structural Inequality
Limitations of Liberal Feminism
-people who believe that socialism should be achieved through democratic means
-Politicians like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic Socialists
-Destruction of legal segregation
-Civil Rights Act of 1964
Why anti-racist struggles in the USA in the 1960s were termed a revolution
Care has been the primary means through which Black life, resistance, and political possibility are sustained.
Why unpaid houshold work is excluded
The belief is that military spending:
-Creates jobs
-Increases industrial production
-Stimulates technological innovation
-Supports overall economic demand
Military Keynesianism
Managing Black poverty rather than dismantling the structures that produced it.
Idea of 'free market' impoverish black people
-Community-driven, participatory, and responsive to lived realities. It has dominated anti-racist struggles in the U.S. over the past fifty years because:
-State and elite institutions have often failed to enforce civil rights fully.
Bottom-up politics
-Policy clarity focused on justice and economic equity
-Coalition-building across racial and ethnic lines
-Alignment with broader social movements
-Community-based funding and digital outreach
-Inclusive messaging connecting racial justice to shared community interests
Campaign of Zohran Mamdani in New York City
A pseudo-medical term invented in the 19th century to describe the supposed “mental illness”
Drapetomania
-The U.S. military as a racial and political institution
-Historical continuity of anti-racist military resistance
-Civil-military relations and democracy
-Counter-authoritarian lessons
Implications of struggles in the US Military relating to Authoritarianism
guarantees formal legal rights without addressing the racialized social, economic, and political conditions that make those rights actionable, a failure that is visible in the ongoing struggles over citizenship and voting from 1945 to the present
Liberal Def of Humans fell short
Institutionalized racial segregation, shaped wealth inequality, and influenced U.S. housing and politics for generations
Racial Covenants
-believe true justice requires dismantling—not reforming—systems they see as fundamentally oppressive
-Alicia Garza (BLM)
-Patrisse Cullors (BLM)
-Opal Tometi (BLM)
New Abolitionists
-Central to capital accumulation, not remnants of the past.
-They allowed the state and capital to extract value without wages or rights.
-Disciplined Black labor
Chain gang and prison labor
-Rejecting racial privilege
-Submitting to Black leadership
-Embracing moral responsibility over racial safety
-They were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan
Ways Young Americans Transcend Whiteness
-"father of modern gynecology."
-Exploitation of Enslaved Women: Sims conducted his experiments on enslaved Black women without anesthesia.
James Marion
Calls for divesting from policing and incarceration while investing in Black communities, aiming to address structural inequities rather than only symptoms of injustice
5th of the six Demands of the #BLM movement.
Modern system of racial control in the United States
New Jim Crow
Simple discrimination is about unequal treatment; racial capitalism is about how economic systems require and reproduce racial inequality
Simple discrimination and racial capitalism