Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

Interview stuff - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Critical interpretations of TL
        
        Hazareesingh-
        
        French
        
        Washington denounced him (born in blackness)
        
        most execrable monsters history has ever known
        
        Haitian mixed race historians - War of Knives.
        
        Thomas Madiou, Beaubrun Ardouin
        
        Claimed he was racially divisie and tyrannical ruler who betrayed the iudeals of the revolution
        
        Political authoritarianism
        
        alleged hostility to the mix raced contingent
        
        attempts to restore plantation economy by forging alliances with the old white ruling class.
        
        underestimates power of people
        
        free african- therefore always trying to placate and be accepted by the french
      - French Rev.
        
        Lettre originale des chefs negres révoltés- philosophical case for aboltiion
        
        ideas from language
        
        First line in constitution of 1801 was to be 'free and french'.
        
        Haitian War of Independence as Second Death of TL
      - Battles against: The French, the spanish, internal rivals (Jamaican expedition) and the War of the Knives
      - Comparison with Napoleon
        
        Founding father, providential leader
        
        same treatment at death
        
        similar art (crossing alps)
        
        Strayed too far from their respective homeland roots according to some
        
        TL legacvy not based on egotistical self narrative
        
        TL legten conveyed through oral traditions - perhaps why he's so legendary.
    - - black collaborators- maroons- often punished by makandal by poisonig before the whites.
        
        'I'm coming back as a mosquito'- French killed by malaria- spiritually in tuched and importance of vodou
      - Duddy Boukman
        
        Sent from Jamaica- didn't want to matyr him but sent him to the French in Haiti- the most brutal.
        
        Child of woman who was incredibly rebellious.
        
        actually muslim- called Boukman cus he had Qu'uran tied to his waist.
      - Sicilia Fatima- Leader of Boss Caiman ceremony
        
        Priest of Vodou
      - Vodou
        
        Way of life
        
        Reliigon as common goal of all the people - therrefore knew the common enemy
        
        No fear of dying- going back to the ancestors.
        
        IBo jumping off slave ships to die because they didn't fear
      - Zombies and the bible
      - Rochembau
        
        Reaction to Rochembau being told to exterminate the population - first gassing happened in Haiti
        
        decapitated heads
        
        chase dogs
        
        Polish and Germans helped and became 'black citizens'
        
        Actually killed all of the French - only on the other half of the island
      - Military
        
        guerilla
        
        knwoing the environemtn
        
        previously armed africans in Akram and Akongo wars in the Kongo- fall of the Songhai in 1686
        
        Angola
      - Dessalines
        
        Toussaint opened the way- Dessalines took it all the way.
        
        Dessalines taguht by Dahomey woman the ways of war
        
        really harshly treated by the slave system as opposed to Toussaint- did not have love for french military.
        
        For Everyhting that Rocvhembau did, Dessalines did the same thing to the french.
        
        British brought 30,000 soldiers - left 25,000 troops on ground- largest loss of British army.
        
        He actually let rochembau go at the end.
        
        Dessalines attempted forms of proto socialism
        
        Tried to spread land among the peasants
        
        economic justice for the people.
      - The Aftermath
        
        Helped other latin American nations get rid of slavery.
        
        Ecuador - leaders came to Haiti, and then would send them back with weapons etc.
        
        Venezuela
        
        Simone Beaulevoir
        
        Sabotage from mulatto class- wanted to be white supremacists.
        
        Dessalines assassinated
        
        christophe took over northern part - made himself king
        
        Many white french men fled to New Orleans, and took with them the enslaved Afircans- then led biggest slave rebellions in the US.
        
        Why is it today?
        
        Foreign exploitation
        
        Du Sable- Founded Chicago - could speak so many languages - people thought he was a spy for Haiti.
        
        Detroit compared to Haiti
  - - - language
        
        Attaturk
        
        Haitian Kreyol
        
        China: guoyu
      - History and Memory
        
        Karnaval
        
        American Rev- even though built on Slavery
        
        visual culture
      - Culture
      - Religion
      - Economic development
        
        colonialism
        
        rise of bourgeois
        
        rise of intellectuals
        
        exposed to new ideas
        
        apply ideas to region or peoples
        
        Is Capitalism imperialist
    - - Examples of Great Men deserving Great man theory?
        
        Napoleon
        
        Toussaint
      - Examples of people who are overestimated
        
        Kings and Queens?
        
        Henry VIII
        
        Wolsey
        
        Cromwell
        
        Queen Victoria
        
        Did nothing (mourning)
        
        Nothing to do with colonisation
        
        British empire gains
        
        India
      - examples of men underrated?
        
        Hamilton?
        
        Charles II
    - - Manifest destiny
        
        Conquistadors
        
        Chinese christians (Taiping)
        
        Haiti
      - Blending of religions
        
        Haiti and catholic iconography
    - - Food (tradition, necessity- clear as a means of a common unifying force ( we all need food)
        
        Jerk Chicken in Haiti
        
        Shrove Tuesday (last chance at indulgence before 40 days of fasting)
        
        what is there?
  - - - Abirempons (merhcnats)
        
        Antera Duke- dressed and acted as European.
        
        Sneding of children to european schools to learn languages etc.
      - Benin initially refused to export male slaves as royal polucy until the end of the 17th century.
      - African's playing Europeans off each other
      - African wars
        
        Aykem and Akron Kingdoms end of 1686 - after fall of Songhai
        
        Enslave or be enslaved.
        
        As soon as young men left, the economic output put in the hands of europeans rather than africans.
      - Interpreters
        
        English dependent at Cape Coast for the people of the town of Oeegwa- buy captives from the King of Hueda.
        
        canoemen.
      - Women:
        
        Important traders as any cjildren they might have with Duthc traders at the fort at El MIna could inherit propertt.
      - Agriculture
        
        Nourished the slave trade.
      - Currencies
        
        People became important currencies as other ones- such as iron and cloth- lost value.
        
        tied slaves hands and they came up covered in cowries
        
        different types of money interacted through the violence and massive death asssociated with slavery.
    - - Trans-saharan slave trade
        
        Afonso I in 1516
        
        People as a convertible currency.
        
        Remembering that slavery is not unique to Africa
        
        Aztecs
        
        Chinese.
        
        principle of justiifcation was paganism from the Berbers and Arab traderrs
      - How African's stored wealth
        
        Art and who wore what?
        
        Land was not the capital asset that it was becoming in Europe- cultural and spiritual ties.
      - Small kingdoms meant no unified approach
        
        Initially able to play off sub-saharan and europeans
        
        ended with the collapse of the Songhai in 1683 - gold coast no longer able to occupy buffer zone between imperial systems as it had been throughout the 16th century, so traders moved and the access to commercial and political poweer in the sahel moved east
      - Environment (Guns Germs and Steel + Short Intro to African History)
        
        Delay in Food Production meant Europeans colonised Africans rather than other way round
        
        North South Axis meant trasnder of crops impossible
        
        lack of domesticable animals and plants
      - European triple advantage as a result of food production.
        
        Guns and technology
        
        Widespread literacy
        
        Political organisation necesdsary to supply long trips.
    - - Mudimbe states that it was not formed by Africans, but by non-Africans as a paradigm of difference
        
        Samuel L Johnson (Christianity helped form modern Yoruba identity) that had once beeen political fragmentation - claimed his own ancestors were descendants of Old Testament.
      - Ornamentalism - key to understanding colonial rule was the mutual class affinity between the British and indigenous hierarchies.
  - - - Not a chronicle of actual events nor a reflection of contemporary power but a commentary on the meanings of historical change
  - - - Blackbird and Pennock What is History Now
        
        Heart of Darkness and Things Fall Apart
    - - True facts are necessary conditions- but not the essential function of a historian- facts do not speak for themselves.
        
        Interpretation is everything.
      - History is a series of accepted judgements
        
        these can change
        
        Because history is never objective and therefolre imperfect, one realises the perfection of a historians job, which is to provide a lens and an angle through which we can see the importance of certain events and 'why' something happened
        
        Objectivity can only be of relation!!!! between fact and interpretation.
        
        Literature and history- is literature individual and history collective.
      - Society, the individual and the historian are all crucial.
      - determinism or cleopatra's nose?
        
        King Alexander killed by Monkey bite
      - Does History move forwards or backwards
        
        Hegel's view (podcast)
        
        History as progress through the transmission of acquired skills from one generation to another.
    - - What makes change?
        
        Maori
        
        Warm island and agriculture
        
        non-hunter specialists. Specialisation.
        
        locally dense populations= war
        
        Moriori
        
        Small island, no war - castrated male enfants
        
        tropical crops didn't survive, hunter gathering
        
        Disease
        
        Lethal gift of livestock
        
        Aztecs
    - - Why Global History Matters Frankopan
        
        History should be about making links between people and continents
        
        BLM rose up as failings of historians to deal with the past...
        
        we are too eurocentric in our understandings.
        
        Writing about silences is even harder than writing about facts
        
        Oral tradiitons cna be britlle as languages die out, but then history is lost forever.
      - How can we write history of empires
        
        Imperial expansion driven by economic imperatives rather than ideological or geo-political ones
        
        India
        
        China
        
        Africa
        
        World might be post-colonial, by no means post imperial
        
        the story is not over.
        
        should be about uncovering the stories that imperial regimes wanted to cover up...
        
        Mau Mau
        
        Oral History
      - How making Space for Indigenous people's changes History Blackbird and Pennock.
        
        first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory, destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history- the the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.
        
        facts are just different ways of knowing than oral tradition.
        
        History is written by the winners.
        
        neither coloniser nor colonised can heal through denial.
        
        dismissing native knowledge as untrustrowrhty or inherently biased detractors hiold white supremacy as the implicit standard.
        
        this challenge is a good thing- history will only be richer for it.
      - How Literature Shapes History
        
        Dynamic relationship between history and literature to the formation of our ideas and the perception we have of ourselves and the world around us.
        
        Oral History has literary qualities
        
        fact and fiction become convoluted- but in the process, myths become part of the hisotrical makeup places and people
        
        Sixth and Seventh centuries, first day of the eleventh month of the ancient south arabian calendar thousands of people from all around the region arrived tell news of the land in Arabic poetry.
      - History should always be re-written
        
        when a historian writes a book, that is the start of the conversation, not the end.
        
        New sources change evidence.
        
        re-writing is not erasure- Colston protestors commiting act of historiogrpahy, not scrubbing him from the records- what does it mean to us now?
- - - - Criticism for Afrocentricity - Cheik Diop
      - Creolité and Edouard Glissant
      - Frantz Fanon
        
        psychological effects
        
        either have to not accept their native culture
        
        accept it and then face inequality
      - Cesaire states that Toussaint Louverture was 'imprsioned in whiteness'
    - - What does Freedom mean?
      - Vivre sa vie