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VIOLENCE - Coggle Diagram
VIOLENCE
Power and Systems
Segregation
Segregation is the use of legal and physical boundaries to enforce the social hierarchy and control black individuals. This tool also was used to push African Americans out of their own communities. Where they succeeded in harming black identity, they also pushed people into cultural identities and political movements that defined the 20th century.
Science
During the 19th century, white americans committed horrible acts against enslaved people, to find out their biology in a very harsh way. Women were subject to violence and men were killed. About 100 years later, White Americans would use biological differences as a justification of racism.
Refugee
Refugee is an identity directly imposed and caused by governments and systems of violence. This identity can lead to the dehumanization of those affected by reducing them to statistics or seen as lesser for being a refugee within the african community fighting through their displacement led to the repair and creation of communities and selfhood.
S;ave Trade
The slave trade was the begining of the sustained system of violence throughout history. Beginning in 1444 the first enslaved peoples were being sent to europe from west africa. And in 1519 the first slaves were sent to america. And while it has changed over time its core purpose remains the same, turning people into commodities.
Fugitivity
Fugitivity is the effort to live a complete life, while the world tries to restrict it. Fugitivity shows that a person is a human rather than a commodity. This term is closely related to the commodification of african americans during the slave trade.
Captives to Commoditites
This concept shows the the agency and selfhood being stripped from those that were enslaved. It started by tearing them from their homes and cultures. By removing people from their homes you socially isolate them and make them hopeless. Allowing a system of violence to be easily imposed apon them.
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Identity and Selfhood
Race
Race is viewed as a system created to categorize humans to fit physical characteristics, to justify the social hierarchy created at the time. While this biological difference doesn’t really exist, the social reality of race dictates access to resources, power, and growth.
Body
The body isn't just someone's own skin, flesh, and blood, but a historical site. The body reflects the previous commodification of the physical body that turned humans into “cargo.” The body is also seen as the vessel itself that escapes from the plantations, connecting to fugitivity.
Nadir
Nadir(Anti-Blackness) is seen as the lowest point of black life. And thoughout history this was thought to be at many different points. The slave trade, slavery itself, segregation, jim crow, the prison system. There are always systems of oppression and violence evolving.
Diaspora
In africana studies diaspora shapes black identity and was initially shattered during the slave trade by ripping people from their homes and cultures.But diaspora is constantly evolving and was changed by a formation of a new african culture within the US.
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Resistance and Agency
Resistance
Resistance is always present when there is a system of violence. Its an opposing force to oppression. When dealing with slavery and the slave trade resistance took many forms. Slave revolts, the underground railroad, protests of violent and nonviolent natures. But resistance has more indirect forms like the black arts movement and what came out of it.
Double Consciousness
Throughout the slavery and reconstruction era the concept of double consciousness remains relevant as African Americans are trying to rebuild their own identity and how they see themselves while fighting with how the rest of the world sees them.
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