Week 4 Flashcards
What are the 3 principles of the BPP?
Self determination, authority to create our own society and values.
Principle of self defense:in public armed.
Serve the people Programs: food health, education
Why was the BPP made?
In response to police brutality and state neglect.
What are the three elements of anti-Black violence( according to Orlando)
Structural: necessary to functioning of social order
Gratuitous: without logic, limit of hope of redress
Illegible as violence: ex. visual proof but king was somehow found guilty and not the cops also presumption of violence based on skin color.
What is problematic with the term riot?
reconfiguring black political mobilization as black crime. rebellion is burning looting stores.
What is intersectionality?
race,class, gener, sexuality, ethincity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary. different categories getting together.
Intersectionality as praxis?
Black feminist movement: racism and sexism, unified in politics of shared belief. ( interlocking forms of oppression.
Intersectionality as an analytical lens?
Qualitative( be applied) diverse collision fighting for the movement. Peoples own experience, how justice is envisioned and how social movements are structured. An example of intersectionality in action is the BLM mission statement.
Intersectionality as a field of study?
how intersectionality impacted people’s lives and what should be done, restructure social structures to accommodate and change.
What are the three ways people use the term “intersectionality”?
politically, structurally, amd representation. theoretical framework. fluid term. primarily used in social injustice.
What is AIWA ( Asian Immigrant Women advocates)?
Aiwa targets specific indusrties of owkring vlass:facotirs, warehouses, sewing women, eleornic, service job.
What strategy did AIWA use differently from other social activities?
teach asian immigrants the history of the U.S. and show examples of oppression and used it to become more aware of social standing and to change their situation. English classes, skills such as computer class, show they are facing discrimination, grass root leaders for social movement.
Explain Rob. Kelly’s argument?
getting information from bias knowledge/diff. narrative. however want self determination to define their own values and their own culture which is part of the black power.
The 1992 LA Uprisings
Rodney King beat by four LAPD officers, the beating is caught on camera and widely circulated creating international outrage, charged with felony assault, plead but not guilty.
Trial moved to Simi Valley which was nearly all white and home to large numbver of LAPD. Jury discharges officer of all charges which sparks the uprising/rebellion of burning and looting stores in Korea Town. Korean American store owners received a lot of damaged property and had neglected calls from LAPD, needed to protect their property.
What is a surrounding event that happened in the rebellion?
Soon Ja Du a Korean store owner shoots a little black girl in the back of the head for stealing a soda and not sentenced to jail but community service.
What are the dominant narratives and their critiques?
The central logic is white supremacy is distracting Korean and Black people from the real enemy. An example is the scapegoat thesis: black ownership of stores is neglected by capitalism by the structure of white people but they blame the people closest to them which is Koreans. Another examples is Cultural misunderstanding (human relations framework) which is South Koreans knew nothing about race in the U.S. and did not know about black oppression or they were fed radicalized logic of U.S. before entering.
