Vocabulary
person as object that can never be considered human
What is the slave/black?
Was a foundational moment to highlight the colloquial term for incidents involving Black people in Wynter's 1994 article.
What was the 1990 Rodney King beating?
wrote a short reflection on what Black Studies is and has been
Who is Louis Chude-Sokei?
suggests that a distinguishing part of being Black is that we must face what it is to be considered a problem
Who is Louis Chude-Sokei?
Walcott calls this the "brutal dispersal"
What is the Black Diaspora?
a non-event that marks continued unfreedom
What is emancipation?
wrote about true freedom being beyond the logic of emancipation
Who is Rinaldo Walcott?
provided a clear framework of the constituent elements of slavery
Who is Orlando Patterson?
term used by public officials to denote incidents involving Black people
one of the student movements that led to the creation of Black Studies at one of the schools we read about
What was the San Francisco State Strike?
describes the issue with empathy and black suffering across time and space including the AME church murders
Who is Christina Sharpe (or Saidiya Hartman, or Claudia Rankine)?
Asks us to consider the radicalizing value system at the foundation of American empire
Who is Hortense Spillers?
the literal and metaphorical shift captives and colonial masters traversed to create the modern world
What is the Middle Passage?
a series of student demonstrations and riots protesting the imposition of Afrikaans and English in all schools
What was the Soweto Massacre?
says that the past, or more accurately pastness is a position
Who is Michel Ralph-Trouillot
Asked us to consider what is opportunity in the wake?
Who is Christina Sharpe?
describes what black consciousness is
What is wakefulness?
a law determining that the Black child inherits the non/status of the mother
What is Partus Sequitur Ventrem?
a central technology for changing people into cargo
What is the slave ship?
suggests that to be Black is to be no-citizen, with no state, no citizenship, no nation to protect them or be respected
Who is everyone we have read / Christina Sharpe?