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| Nov 20, 2022 | » | Bitter Root
7 min; updated Dec 25, 2024
Bitter Root.
David F. Walker; Chuck Brown; Sanford Greene.
Snapshots[Dr. Sylvester] I am not the devil. It was the devil that made me what I have become, and the devil I am here to destroy. Look around you, Enoch Sangerye. You’ve seen this before – cities and towns burned to the ground. It always starts with their hate and fear. And it always ends with our deaths. You saw the hell unleashed in the summer of 1919. ... |
| Jan 13, 2024 | » | March
11 min; updated Feb 4, 2024
Growing Up in Segregated AmericaThe thing is, when I was young, there wasn’t much of a civil rights movement. I wanted to work at something, but I grew up in rural Alabama. My parents knew it would be dangerous to make any waves. “Stay out of trouble. Don’t get in white people’s way.” ... |
| Sep 18, 2022 | » | On Societal Oppressions
8 min; updated Nov 19, 2023
Looking for parallels should be done cautiously. For example, the advantaging associated with race may be different from the one associated with heterosexism. It’s also hard to disentangle [dis]advantaging where social class, economic class, race, religion, sexuality, ethnic identity, and other factors interact. Isn’t this the crux of intersectionality studies? Intersectionality identifies multiple factors of advantage and disadvantage. Factors include gender, caste, sex, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, religion, disability, weight, and physical appearance. These intersecting and overlapping social identities may be both empowering and oppressing. Criticisms of the framework: tendency to reduce individuals to specific demographic factors; its use as an ideological tool against other feminist theories; ambiguous/undefined goals; reliance on subjective experiences (standpoint theory) leading to contradictions and inability to generalize. ... |
Enlightening to see the struggles addressed by the civil rights movement through a child’s viewpoint. I can relate to John Lewis more at a young age because we have shared experiences, but his were in a segregated environment whereas mine weren’t.