Angela Davis

On Saturday February 6, 2016, one day before Super Bowl Fifty; Beyoncé Knowles released a music video for her new song “Formation .” Filmed in New Orleans with the devastation caused by hurricane Katrina as a backdrop. The video featured a scenes where Beyoncé sits atop a half-submerged police car that continues sinking. Giving a nod to the Black Lives Matter movement, “at the end of the clip, a line of riot-gear-clad police officers surrender, hands raised, to a dancing black child in a hoodie,…

India Gantt PHL 103 Prof. Scott McDaniel Essay Two Understanding race starts with breaking down critical race theory and Charles Mills' black philosophy. Racial subpersons, racial contract, and racial polity are the three main components of critical race theory. Racial contract: laws and customs that create a racially differentiated society, producing a social hierarchy. 2. Racial polity: the society, community, or political structure of that racial hierarchy. Racial subpersons: a category that…

According to “Racism, Birth Control and Reproductive Rights” by Angela Davis, the result of this fear was the idea that white women had a moral obligation to have children. President Theodore Roosevelt embraced this idea, and addressed it in the 1906 State of the Union: “Roosevelt admonished the well-born white women who engaged in ‘willful sterility’- the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race suicide” (Davis 209). With this quote, the division between who should and should not…

protected by men. Both black women and white women experienced sexism but in different ways, depending on their race (Hunter College & Simalchik, 2016, p. 62). The authors present an even bolder example of intersections of oppression through Angela Davis’ work. Davis wrote about the way enslaved women were viewed when looking back at the history of slavery; they were seen as traitors for having babies with their white masters. People who held these views ultimately failed to recognize the role…

Angela Davis’s “Are Prisons Obsolete”? she basically talks about how prison systems were back then and how they relate to now and days. She talks about capital punishment and how in some countries including the United States it hasn’t been abolished. As well as that she compares it to the talk about abolishing the death penalty and how some countries already abolished the death penalty. From reading that what I get out of it is that America is still a somewhat barbaric country that relies on…

risk failure, according to Angela Duckworth (Smith, NPR.org). A great time to teach a student the effectiveness of grit would be in a freshman class so it can open doors…

choice. I chose to start my Girl Scout career as a “brownie” with Ms. Angela or a.k.a.…

Angela Davis’s book Freedom is a Constant Struggle, is an amazing book that reflects about different topics that we have gone over in class. Davis thoroughly examines the connections in our society that oppress us throughout our history and also around the world. Different topics arose in this book which pertained directly to the views and ideas we reflected in our classroom. Davis speaks about previous liberation struggles, and many of the injustices we serve here in our own country, which have…

notion that they had ownership over black women’s bodies. One reason why white men believed in this to be true was due to their ignorance towards black men. Angela Davis wrote in Women Race & Class, “If Black men have their eyes on white women as sexual objects, then Black women must certainly welcome the sexual attentions of white men.” (Davis 182). Black women were violently preyed upon by white men. Sadly there's no repercussions against white men who rape black women. Thus made Sylvester the…

White ignorance has led to the continuing cycle of brutality against blacks in America. The movie Rosewood exemplifies how established cultural prejudices caused by fear lead to violent acts. Fear made by racial preconceptions, makes room for the imagination of the individual that allows such bigotry to exist. Similarly, as Dr. J.W. Wiley puts it, “racism is largely predicated on unfamiliarity with the “Other”” (Wiley 121). America's racist past has created a wall that separates people of…