Blackness in Motion Exam Review

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Blackness

Orient/embodiness

Place

physical location/where set (oakland)

Space

social environment/what filled

Zora Neale Hurston

Author of Barracoon

Clotilda

the last slave trade ship

Dahomey

kingdom (bante town)

Barracoon

the limbo of being held captive but not yet in the Middle Passage; -6 weeks or longer

Kossola Lewis

One of last survivors of Clotilda

Maroon Communities

yearning for their home and being forced to create their own

Language

Something created, both oppression and resistance, in relation to black diaspora and the scattering of black people

Seasoning

Doesn’t ever end; 1 - 3+ years

Africatown

In Barracoon, where the slaves end up and make home “we make africa where we are taken”; town in Alabama,currently in court to reclaim land

Middle Passage

the stretch of land that people crossed on the slave trade that was the worst; 6 -12 months

Witnessing

“there’s nothing I can undo”

Reflexivity

Self-making

Zambo

As the figure and the practice, first indigenous and black, transnational formation of black indigeneity

Hybridity

Based on agricultural practices, civilized with the savage; better than lower but still not as good, Mulata (mixed)

Racialization

Narratives and processes, happens between people and cultures; White, colored, indian, black

Slavery

Colonialism

Racial Fixity

Maafa

the wound of being captured; Ki-Swahili term that means disaster and the human response to it

Colorism

The structure of power in which white/lightness is preferred (prejudice)

Interculturality

Indio

Indigenous person

Mestizaje

A mixed person

Colorization

Understanding that there are different skin tones (Comprehending)

One drop rule

Defined from Black Ancestry, conflating and socially homogenizing individuals with a wide range of phenotypes into one racial category

Racial democracy

Blanqueamiento

“we Dominicans are a mixed people” — dominicans = Non-haitioness and anti-black

Racism

Racial fluidity

Being able to go through races with ease, being black in one place but being light-skinned in another; the difference of categorization of ones race

Mulata

mules, mixed person; moroccan (preta)

Marrom Bombo

Light brown chocolate, in reference to skin tone

Erotic subjectivity

The erotic can be a catalyst for the creation of community, its about sharing

Ambiguous Entanglements

the interplay between implicit and explicit promises of support and intimacy that defines the sexual economy of bahia

Sex tourism

international trips which sex and intimacy play a major role in the purpose of travel

Sex work

Exchanging romantic or sexual contact for monetary or non monetary resources

Perola

The Dutchman

Rich white man who was with Perola, bought her a house and died

Tiago

Lugar

Mati Work

varying, versatile sexual behavior: no real, authentic, fixed self is claimed, but one particularly strong, masculine instance who loves to lay down with women, is foregrounded

Winti

syncretic West African spiritual practice/tradition, indigenous to suriname

Mati

friend or working class women who have children and engage in sexual relationships with men and with women, either consecutively or simultaneously

Robe Milly

Queerness

Masculinity

Delores

Refuses the social locations, Yaineris’ partner,

Octavio

Is also Lili, negro, loyal to old race tropes in Cuba

Yaineris

Lili

Transformista, mulata, uses makeup as colorization drag

Mize

Ransom

The Ransom Project which included: Double debt, haiti’s domestic budget going overseas, robbed by a bank, US military occupation & corporate plunder, corruption at the top, hidden history

Empire

Independance

Freedom from France, entity, nation, in relation to Haiti and its declaration in 1804

Agency

In relation to Cuba,

Sovereignty

Power of self governance and of self determination in relation to Haitian Declaration of Independence in 1804

Decolonization

the process of removing colonial rule and establishing independence from colonial powers, often involving social, political, and economic transformation.

Haiti

The first nation in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery and declare independence from colonial rule, achieving this in 1804 after a successful revolt against French colonization.

Revolution

Reparations

In relation to Haiti, paying back the money to them from colonial powers

Debt

In relation to Haiti following independence, often cited in discussions about reparations owed to Haiti by former colonial powers.

Cole

Breaking the scripts is a pathway to breaking through the barrier, realized how black queer cuban people shape politics

Trivialization

Contributes to white washing, making something seem less important than it is, in reference to Puerto Rico Census

Simplification

Contributes to white washing, found in the census categories of Puerto Rico, reduces identities and silences

National Ideology