BLST 101
Racism, tends to focus on the color of your skin and not the contents of who you are. White is pure and black is boisterous, in class we suggested that race was not naturally occurring and came to be over time through the process of racialization. Racism activates from a group of people who categorize Africans that did not view themselves as being a part of one group. In the years of 1680 and 1720 the number of blacks in South Carolina rose from 17 percent to 70 percent. “Carolina “commented Swiss newcomer Samuel Dyssli in 1737 “looks more like a Negro country than a country settled by white people.” (pg.84) this to me states your color may out number us but you will never over power us. Many believe this world was discovered by a “white man” in spite of what others believe Africans make up the evolution of American culture. Elazer Barker stated in the United States: “During this period, race was perceived primarily as a scientific concept, perception which was itself a legacy of the nineteenth century”. (pg.2) Among leading scientific circles in the United States and Britain, race typology as an element of casual cultural explanation became largely discredited , racial differentiation began to be limited to physical characteristics, and prejudicial action based on racial discrimination came to be viewed as racism ( pg.3).
I have always viewed racism as an ongoing issue that never really ended. Prior to the lessons that were taught in class, it took me by surprise to learn that our own people (Africans) participated in the slave trade. Prior to the lessons we discussed in class, I did not have the knowledge that African Slaves were brought to Barbados and other Caribbean islands. Barbadian slave owners came to consider it their legitimate right and privilege to engage in sexual liaisons with blacks. That has always been an issue to me that one race can envy another race but yet engage in sexual acts. However, I have taken a few Black study classes where the main focus will be whites owning slaves, but they never discussed Africans being involved in the Atlantic Slave Trade. It is interesting to me that the concept of racialization being brought up in in class it now gave me a different lens view of racism.
Lastly, personally I believe the idea of racism started from Europeans who wanted power of Africans. The power of color distinguishes what race dominated the other. When you think of politics you think of a white person in charge when Obama was elected for president, the black community thought there will be a change. There will always be racism if we as the people do not speak up and stick together as a community. The African American community is infuriated with cops killing us but no one talks about the crime against our own kind. History repeats itself we now have organizations like that represent the black community like: “Black Lives Matter” “Stay Woke” groups that are fighting to increase injustice within our community. The whites have benefited from racism back then and at this present time, they have the power and are scared of losing it.
Barkan, E. (1992). The retreat of scientific racism: Changing concepts of race in Britain and the United States between the world wars. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from: https://books.google.com/books
Scott, W. R., & Shade, W. G. (2000). Upon these shores: themes in the African-American experience, 1600 to the present. Psychology Press. Retrieved: https://books.google.com/books
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Short Reading: Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery
I wonder how come my title did not get attached to the blog post
ReplyDeleteHey Jenelle, this is a great post. You have a minor typo, for your first quote i don't know if the "s are supposed to be for Carolina or for the following words. You also have to upper case 'This' and put the period after the cited page numbers, not inside of the quotation. Also where are the intext links? I thought professor said we had to include two links to outside sources. But overall your blog post is good and I was taken back by surprise when I learned of Africans trading other Africans, do you think we never learned about this because Whites want to feel like they are and always was in power and not credit those superior Africans who sold them the slave? Hmm I wonder.
ReplyDeleteThis was a very informing post you had great points and the evidence to back it up. But I believe we were supposed to have two external sources not one and two pictures.But overall it was a good post.
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