Monday, February 2, 2009
Beginning Considerations--Starting the Blog, Starting the Course
Now that you have finished reading Chapters 1 and 2 in Anderson and Stewart, and Chapter 1 in Hill-Collins, take some time to reflect on their significance. What does reading this material make you want to know more about? List three facts presented in these chapters that surprised you, and list 3 questions about the assigned chapters that I and your classmates can respond to further.
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When did women notice they needed a movement from there own aside from black civil rights movement
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do you believe black female made a big difference in the civil rights movement
When women noticed that the complaints weren't covering the greater points or points that are inclusive enough? Women begain to see & recognize an even greater goal for themselves and thier children as those goals relate to thier own humanity, shared comparsion, freedom and individuality? So, the idea of becoming "free and/or a full citizen" started to gell or become a recognizable thought in individual minds of the time.
ReplyDeleteKnowing what i know now from reading it makes wonder why it took so long for African American females to take a stand and start to make moves for themselves that can better their future.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know black women's labor was essential to U.S. capitalism and symbolized black women's long standing ghettoization in service occupation.
The political dimension of oppression denied black women the rights and privileges routinely extended to white citizens.
I would like to know more about the history of African Americans, their struggles and their success.
ReplyDelete1. I didnt know that there were so many black philosophers and itellectuals in the eighteen and nineteenth centuries such as David Walker(1785-1830), Sojourner Truth(1797-1883),Frederick A Douglas(1817_1895)
2. I didn't know that the civil rights movement and black students had to rebel and protest for the establishment of African American studies in Colleges.
3. Maria Stewart was one of the first black feminist to champion the utility of balck woman's relationships with one anotherin providing a communtity for Balck women's activism and self determination.
1. Do you think that black students have the same privillages has white students in today's society?
2. Are cultural pluralism,multiethnicity, and cultural diversity synonymous terms relative to American education?
3. Do you think that Black women today live up to the ideas and values of the Black feminist mentioned?
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ReplyDeleteWhen reading the material in chapters 1 and 2 it made me want to know more about how the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were the most oppressive eras for African Americans.
ReplyDeleteThe first fact presented in chapter 1 that surprised me was the statement that came from Leonard Harris in his book Philosophy Born of Struggle “the world refuses to see afro-Americans as humans and as peers”.
Another fact that surprised me in chapter 1 was that David Walker a writer of the book titled (David Walker’s Appeal: To the Coloured Citizens of the World), was found dead under mysterious circumstances in 1830. The thing that caught my attention about this, is that after he had threats on his life for writing the book that talked about how white Christianity aided slavery, and how the religion exhorted blacks to resist bondage and overthrow their enslavers, he was found dead under a mysterious circumstances. It was kind of weird that he was killed right after his book was published, and they never ruled out a cause of death.
The third fact in the second chapter that surprised me was that the term “Black power” is subject to different interpretations, instead of having the meaning of being the concept of race pride.
One of the questions I have for the other chapters is? “how is the term black power interpreted from the term white power?”
The reason that I am asking this question is because I want to know some of the interpretations of “white power”, and if it has different meanings, than just race pride, self respect, self-help, or black consciousness?
Another question is how did Ella Baker help Martin Luther King in his struggles for racial equality, besides helping him call a meeting with student representatives from all black colleges?
Another question is what was her role in African American studies other than just being one of Dr Kings followers?
These are some great questions, y'all! Don't let the semester end without making sure that they are answered, by class discussion, by reading assignments, by research, and on these blogs.
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