Colonizing the Soul

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Colonizing the Soul

• Cesaire
• Wrote about colonization, colonialism
• What is it?
• Race, class, gender discrimination
• Thingification (Object)
• Both idea and practice

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Colonialism

• Idea
• of modernity
• Of natural historical development/progress
• of extraction
• Process
• Of industrialization and capitalism
• Of exploitation
• Also, psychological process (thingification)

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Fanon

• Empire symbolic distinction between colonizer
  and colonized (heirarchical)
• Criteria of good is spread among all and
  internalized
• Dual roles One with White man, another with
  African peers

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Being

• To speak is to assume a cultureto support the
  weight of a civilization
• There has been no ontology (theory of being) of
  the colonized
• Requires recognition, consciousness of self

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Patterson

• Institutional frameworks of prejudice die more
  slowly than outright prejudices
• Patterns of adaptation of oppressed people can
  become dysfunctional under less constrained
  circumstances

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Paradoxes

• America
• Legal and political rights are advanced
• Exist with binary conception of race
• Freedom requires discovery of identity
• Antiracism reinforces racial categories

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Challenges to One Drop Rule

• Integration and Civil Rights
• Immigration of Latin Americans and Asians
• Children of mixed parentages

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Hill Collins

• Standpoint
• Knowledge is produced from distinct social
  locations
• Responding to
• Afrocentrism (marginalizes gender)
• Feminism (marginalizes race)

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Black Feminism

• Highlights different ways of knowing
• Epistemology
• How do you know?
• Standards of knowing
• Why we believe what we believe to be true

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Power in Knowledge Legitimation

• Social Institutions Produce and Evaluate
• Example
• Positivism and Black feminism

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Conflicting Standards

• African American women live in and address
  different worlds with conflicting standards
• African American women
• African American women scholars
• Dominant academic groups
• Truth combines standpoints.

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Epistemology

• Example
• Positivism
• Vs.
• Black feminism