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WEEK 8 READING ASSIGNMENT - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Frantz Fanon, asked how could we treat psychiatric patients if the institution itself is sick.
        
        the world does not become raceless or will not become unracialized by assertion. The act of enforcing racelessness in... discourse itself is a racial act.
        
        personal journey:
        
        the two fellowships gave first hand accounts of how white wields structural power and privilege in development corridors.
        
        at the African Development bank, it was learned that to question the agendas of non-African shareholders was to transgress visible but unspoken racial ties.
        
        deliberate and exacting absensce of race in scholarly discourse was seen.
        
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- - - - it equates as whiteness with wholeness and superiority.
        
        development traces itself through racial tropes.
        
        by centering white supremacy as the dominant organizing principle of modern political systems.
        
        Mills explains that white fragility means within the context of race relations in the U.S, and it makes white people uncomfortable and they try to maintain their superiority.
        
        DiAngelo's book is limited in focusing on white settler societies.
- - - - As an example, in response to police brutality, the Black Lives Matter movement emerged as an assertion of black personhood as the norm, rather than the exception.
        
        Ifi Amadiume, deconstructs the especially racist attitudes of feminist of the global south, and especially the notion that all women in pre-colonial African were subordinate.
        
        saying you are committed to opening up development, means we must acknowledge race as foundational to this field.