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+They describe women as someone that becomes dehumanized and objectified—this fluidity of switching in and out of the category of the human is inaccessible to the black body. The analogization of women as being outside the category of human actively obscures the original violence of slavery |
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+Broeck 08 Sabine, Acting President of the Collegium for African American Research at the University of Bremen, Germany, “Enslavement as Regime of Western Modernity: Re-reading Gender Studies Epistemology Through Black Feminist Critique,” |
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+The point I want to make … of black human beings. |
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+Africans went into the middle passage as bodies and emerged from the holds of the ships as flesh, as black. The distinction of body and flesh represent the same distinction between the captive and liberated subject positions. Their grammar of suffering does not account for the corpse of a murder victim, it accounts for bodies but not flesh. Gendering participates in a drama of value the resignifies humanity and always sidelines blackness, one that is always void, this is done through the assumption that all “humans” have bodies and that analysis of the relation between white and black have an analog in gender relations. |
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+Wilderson 10 Frank B Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms |
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+Above I suggested … White folks will not. |