ADW 111 Terms of Engagement and their definitions/summaries

Construction of Knowledge

- Refers to how knowledge is created, shaped, and understood

-Evolves social, cultural, historical context that influences how individuals & societies produce and validate knowledge

Examples:

"Pedagogy of The Oppressed" investigates different ways knowledge is learned/taught

"Fact making and feminism" examines social construction of scientific knowledge

Diaspora

A dispersion of people from their homeland while often maintaining ties and influencing the country where they are located/Movement, migration, or scattering or people away from an established or ancestral homeland

Examples:

"Unfinished Migrations" explores what defines the African diaspora(fluid, complex, a framework)

"Antiquity" describes the origin of diaspora and its importance in understanding blackness now

"Transatlantic Movement" the creation of a dynamic diaspora during the slave trade

Identity

Characteristics, values, and beliefs that define an individual or group influenced by factors like race, gender, class, and nationality can evolve over time

Examples:

"Complexity of Identity" talks about the different factors affecting identity formation

"Gender as an Analytic Category" gender is a construct, assignment of roles to the sexes, and women experience gender differently

Race

-A social construct used to determine humans based on physical characteristics such as skin color and hair textures.

Examples:

"Racial Formations" addresses how race changes as a social construct

Gender

-Refers to the roles, behaviors, and attributes that society considers appropriate for women's, men's, non-binary individuals

Examples:

"Black Women in the Community of Slaves" provides a description of women in the enslaved community apart from traditional narratives

"Shifting Contexts" emphasizes importance of using gender as a lens for inclusive study

Sexuality

Describes a persons sexual orientation, behavior, and capacity for erotic experiences

Heteronormativity

The assumption that heterosexuality is the default/norm sexual orientation that gender is binary.

Example:

"Heterosexual Checklist" exemplifies privileges that lgbt people may not experience

Trans Identity

-refers to individuals whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned

Class

-system of social stratification based on income, wealth, education, occupation

-it could effect access to resources, opportunities, and social status

Critical Consciousness

-A concept developed my Paulo Freire referring to the ability to perceive social, political, economic, oppression and take action against it

Examples:

"Pedagogy of the Oppressed" a full understanding of concepts in the world is the path to true liberation

"unfinished migrations" using the african diaspora as a framework for understanding global history and social change

Resistance

-The act of signing back against forms of oppression

Example:

"Asserting the Right to Be" argues and demonstrates the ways that enslaved Africans resisted dehumanization

Resilience

-capacity to recover or adapt to difficult oppression

Example:

"Enslavement" explores how even with rights and identities stripped, Enslaved Africans exhibited resilience by maintaining cultural practices and resistance

Intersectionality

-Based on Black Feminist works, a term coined by kimberle crenshaw that explains how oppression (racism, sexism, classism) overlaps and shapes people's experience

Examples:

"Shifting Contexts" emphasizes importance of intersectionality in analyzing race gender class and culture

"Gender as an Analytic Category" Intersectionality of race and gender(among others) affects the way women experience gender

Intellectual Dishonesty

deliberate misuse of information to push an agenda/gain power

Colonization

Taking control over an area and subjugating the populations

Decolonization (Edit if you find a better def.)

https://www.britannica.com/topic/decolonization

process by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country

Sankofa

From Ghana, go back and fetch it, look to the past to guide future/progress