africam 5b

black epistemology

the idea that knowledge is shaped by lived experiences; black communities have developed their own ways of understanding the world based on history, culture, and social conditions

foundations of black epistemology

knowledge is situated and not neutral, experience as a legitimate source of knowledge, knowledge is social and communal, epistemic violence and erasure, liberation-oriented knowledge, rehumanization of the Black subject

3 stages of development

assimilation/mimcry stage, return-to-the-past cultural recovery, the fighting (revolutionary stage)

sociogeny

explains how Black identity, consciousness & pathology are produced socially/historically rather than biologically/individually

humanism critique

things historically didn’t include black people since they’ve been excluded from being seen as fully human

institutional facts

facts that exists only b/c humans collectively recognize/agree on them

brute facts

exists independently of humans/social systems

3 premises of social interactionism

we act based on meaning, meaning comes from interaction, meaning is interpreted

thingification

the process of turning a human being into a “thing”

negritude

a rejection of colonization and in response to thingification

dramaturgy

social life operates like a stage performace

stigma

deeply discrediting attribute

3 types of stigma

abominations of the body, blemishes of individual character, tribal stigma for race/religion/nation

stereotype

mental shortcut that validates one’s internal stigma

stock character

repeating roles that structure how black ppl are visually imagined over popular culture and society

vicious propaganda

propaganda when its authors consciously & deliberately aim to affect the common good

modern propaganda

consistent effort to create/shape events to influence the relations of the public to an enterprise, idea, or group

new propagandist

the people who tell us what to believe

black consciousness

mental and political project that aims to free the mind of the oppressed to promote unity and freedom

necropolitics

form of sovereignty in which power is organized around who may live and who may die

triple loss (conditions of the slave)

loss of home, loss of rights over his/her body, loss of political status

biopolitics

the modern politics and strategy of managing life, hygiene & exposure to death

necropower

structure of terror w/ 3 major characteristics that organize how death is

3 characteristics of necropower

territorial fragmentation & enclosure, shared & diffuse use of violence, large-scale production of death & “deathworld”

revolutionary suicide

one has such a will to live w/ hope and human dignity that one is risking dying to fight to gain this

reactionary suicide

taking own life in reaction to social conditions and hopelessness/acceptance