Négritude / BLM

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Négritude

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Anti-colonial political & cultural movement started in the 1930s by Afro-Caribbean students in Paris; sought to reclaim value of blackness and African culture

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Modernity at Large

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Appadurai (1990); challenges theories of globalization that assume it as a neo-colonial form of regulation (assumes a center and peripheries) - globalization is multidirectional and complex

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Scapes (Appadurai)

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Used to understand globalization; imaginary fields that exist parallel to each other (w/ no particular direction) that are impacted by one’s situatedness

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The Black Atlantic (1993)

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Paul Gilroy; discusses distinct Black Atlantic culture w/ infused elements from African, American, British, and Caribbean cultures

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Harlem Renaissance

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20s-30s intellectual & cultural movement; Great Migration from South to the North and embracing modernity

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Marcus Garvey

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Jamaican political activist; promoted Pan-Africanist consciousness and via the Black Star Line held economic transactions b/w U.S., Africa, and West Indies

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W.E.B. Du Bois

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Popularized notion of double consciousness as well as the Talented Tenth which promoted intellectualism vs. vocational trade (promoted by Booker T. Washington)

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Aime Cesaire

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Discourse on colonialism (1950)- critiques sentiments towards WWII that were the same as what occurred in colonized lands (Senghor)

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Frantz Fanon

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Black Skin, White Masks (1952); critique on identity construction - On Nat’l Culture (1961) takes issue w/ romanticized black culture (ontology)

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On National Culture

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First movement: mimicry to come close to Euro culture
Second movement: rediscover one’s routes through aesthetics

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BLM

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Continuation of politicization of civil rights mvmt; emergence of new black upper-middle class

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Language’s role in reconfiguration

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Pain + suffering as a center of mobilization for certain movements

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Afropessimism

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Theoretical development which centers the modern world on the duality between slave v human instead of bourgeoisie/proletariat

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Politicization

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The question of tensions b/w ‘blackness’ as an essential vs political category