#black studies

[jstor]

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Image: Two African American women, seated and facing each other, 1900. Library of Congress. Via Wikimedia Commons.

[bideogaymes]

the layers of evil white people get up to is seriously astounding. yeah, we literally cant afford to give them the benefit of the doubt nor be forgiving or patient when the system they created and uphold is chomping at the bit to kill , imprison or enslave us in some manner.

demented. another reason i dont think white people should be able to teach Black studies but, they do anyway. Academia is not neutral.

[thetendertongue]

fugitivity -> in Black Studies: a mode of refusal and escape; not just running away, but creating other ways of living outside or beneath the structures of control. inspired by enslaved people who fled plantations, but also used for any subversive, ungoverned life

[2mercia2furious]

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (1963).

[fluoresensitives]

Thus the desire to don, occupy, or possess blackness or the black body as a sentimental resource and/or locus of excess enjoyment is both founded upon and enabled by thematerial relations of chattel slavery. In lightofthis, is it tooextreme or too obvious to suggest that Rankin's flight of imagination and the excitements engendered by suffering mightalsobe pleasurable?

Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

[gravalicious]

Diaspora Literacy: The Black Studies Perspective and Curriculum Change, A Seminar with Sylvia Wynter, Santa Clara University

[thesagittarianmind]

[whatevergreen]

Black Studies - Emory Douglas, from The Black Panther (newspaper), c1970

"We Want Education for Our People That Exposes The True Nature Of This Decadent American Society. We Want Education That Teaches Us Our True History And Our Role in the Present-Day Society. We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowledge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world then he has little chance to relate to anything else."

(No5 from The Black Panther Party Ten-Point Program of October 15, 1966)

(1966) The Black Panther Party Ten-Point Program •

The Black Panther Party Ten-Point Program Written October 15, 1966 1. We Want Freedom. We Want Power to Determine the Destiny of Our Black C

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