Theorizing White Racial Trauma and its Remedies

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Becky Thompson ◽  
Veronica T. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
James Baldwin ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Racial Trauma ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
White Consciousness ◽  
Martin Luther King

In this paper we will be drawing upon historical work on race consciousness, contemporary work on trauma, and scholarship on activism and social change to offer a vision of what a critical white double consciousness might look like. We juxtapose this critical white consciousness with what Veronica Watson has termed a “white schizophrenic subjectivity” which has been explored by intellectuals like Du Bois, Charles Chesnutt, James Baldwin and Martin Luther King Jr. Each of these writers called attention to a whiteness that works to maintain disconnection from people of color and disassociation from their own moral selves, a white schizophrenic subjectivity that prevented white folks from acknowledging or challenging racism while still continuing to think of themselves as moral and upstanding citizens of their communities and nation.

The Political Economy of Niggerdom: W. E. B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King Jr. on the Racial and Economic Discrimination of Black Males in America

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adebayo Ogungbure
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Black Males ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Black Families ◽  
Wealth Creation ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Economic Discrimination ◽  
Racial Divide ◽  
Economic Injustice ◽  
Martin Luther King

In The Color of Money, Baradaran argues that the defining feature of America’s racial divide is the wealth gap which is where the seeds of historic anti-Black injustice and the present economic sufferings of African Americans were sown. While exploring the philosophical thoughts of W. E. B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King Jr., this essay grapples with such roots of anti-Black economic injustice by highlighting how the American capitalist economy was designed to, ultimately, destroy Black families through the exclusion of Black males from the system of wealth creation. I argue that insights from the structural, socio-political and economic critiques of W. E. B Du Bois and Martin Luther King Jr. reveal how America operated a “political economy of niggerdom”—a system that utilizes various modes of anti-Black misandry, and the stereotype of criminalization as the basis for racial and economic discrimination against Black males.

scholarly journals Espectros de Baldwin

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-46
Author(s):  
Jânderson Albino Coswosk ◽  
Maria Aparecida Andrade Salgueiro
Keyword(s):  
Martin Luther ◽  
James Baldwin ◽  
Malcolm X ◽  
Raoul Peck ◽  
Martin Luther King

O artigo explora a potência crítica e narrativa do documentário I Am Not Your Negro (2016), do diretor haitiano Raoul Peck (1953-), resultante de uma pesquisa intensa do diretor nos arquivos pessoais do escritor e ensaísta afro-americano James Baldwin (1924-1987). Apontaremos de que modo Baldwin, através da manipulação imagética e textual proposta por Peck, ressuscita questões graves da história das tensões raciais nos Estados Unidos, que dividiram o país antes e após o início dos anos 1970, ou ainda, após a luta pelos direitos civis e a morte de seus três grandes amigos: Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers e Malcolm X. Evidenciaremos como o documentário expõe um pano de fundo do passado que se confunde com imagens, narrativas, corpos e nomes do presente, ao destacar a importância das reflexões de Baldwin para a luta contra o racismo e a violência ainda impostos à população negra estadunidense na contemporaneidade.

scholarly journals Toward a Liberated Learning Spirit

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura May Pipe ◽  
Jennifer T Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Approaches To Learning ◽  
Political Environments ◽  
Martin Luther King ◽  
Common Misconceptions

Despite the popularity of social justice frameworks, today’s polarized socio-political environments call for a justice-forward approach where educators blend equity and culturally-responsive pedagogies with experiential approaches to learning. The TALLS (Toward a Liberated Learning Spirit) model for developing critical consciousness infuses established equity practices with indigenous approaches to learning and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Six Steps for Nonviolent Social Change. By re-engaging curiosities, TALLS guides learners from academic detachment through an unlearning process toward embodied liberation. Readers will be invited to disrupt common misconceptions that reproduce postcolonial paradigms to foster learner development of critical consciousness.

The duality of space: The built world of Du Bois’ double-consciousness

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Livia Brand
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Spatial Inequalities ◽  
Black Residents ◽  
The City

Using Du Bois’ concept of double-consciousness, this article explores African Americans’ responses to urban redevelopment strategies that undermine their claims to urban space. Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, this study centers residents’ visions for urban redevelopment, which reveal the severe economic, social, and spatial inequalities that they have historically faced but also the beauty and vibrancy of these communities. This article explores the spatiality of black residents’ double-consciousness and argues that space’s material and symbolic functions contribute to residents’ subaltern visions for urban development, views which counter the denigration of spaces inhabited by people of color with more socially and racially just visions for the future of the city.

The Strategies of Style

2020 ◽  
pp. 115-139
Author(s):  
Richard Lischer
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
First Principle ◽  
The Public ◽  
Speaking Style ◽  
Martin Luther King ◽  
The Way

This chapter focuses on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speaking style. King’s style did not mirror a mysterious and inaccessible “inner man,” nor what King would have called his “personality.” Instead, it reflected a strategy for the public presentation of a message, which in turn was related to a larger strategy of social change. He did not preach and speak the way he did because “that is the sort of person he was,” but because he had a mission no less calculated or comprehensive than Demosthenes’s appeal to Athens or Lincoln’s to America. His mission was, as he put it simply in a 1963 sermon, “to make America a better nation.” Paradoxically, he pursued his high and serious purpose with a style whose first principle was the achievement of pleasure.

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