PPT-The rise of racial slavery

in the Caribbean MS02 Professor David Lambert 1112 28 th February 2017 Lecture structure The social construction of race Pseudoscientific racism The Caribbean origins of race Barbados in the 17. Walter Johnson refers to . Joseph Holt Ingraham’s work, ‘The Southwest by a Yankee’ (1835. ). Johnson . states that there is no more important topic in relation to slavery than the topic approached by Ingraham regarding ‘the relation of slavery to race… of the process of economic exploitation to the ideology of racial domination. Introduction – What is race? . Race as a cultural construct. “ Race as a mechanism of social stratification and as a form of human identity is a recent concept in human history”. First used in the 16. In the Roman World. Slavery is a ubiquitous feature of the Ancient World. Ancient Slavery is NOT racial. Anyone can become a slave regardless of racial features or ethnic origin.. It is circumstances that make someone a slave. ST. CENTURY AMERICA. Presented by:. The Aspen Institute. Roundtable on Community Change. Anne Kubisch, Keith Lawrence, Raymond Codrington. October 2, 2012. Detroit, MI. OUR AGENDA FOR TODAY:. A language to talk about race. AND SLAVERY. COLONIAL RACIAL THEORY. During the 18. th. and 19. th. century imperialist (empire-building) nations looking for colonies believed in a racial hierarchy. . This hierarchy determined how they treated people living in countries they made into their colonies.. Dr . Camillia. . Cowling. 1940s recordings of Brazilian slave songs by Stanley . Stein. No tempo do . cativeiro. Aturava. . muito. . desaforo. Levantava. de . manha. . cedo. Com . cara. . limpa. Qur’anic . B. asis for Inter-Racial . R. elationships . Inter-racial Relationships in the Life of Prophet Muhammad, . pbuh. I. nter-racial Events in Muslim Communities in History . Observations on American Islamic Race-Relations in the US – Yesterday and Today. . in the Caribbean. MS0.2. Professor David . Lambert. 11-12, 28. th. . February 2017. Lecture structure. The social construction of race. Scientific racism. The Caribbean origins of race:. Barbados in the 17. race relations in the U.S.. Brea . Barthel. 11/13/13. First, a word on words. “African-American” current preferred term. “Black” usually okay. “People of color” okay; includes all non-whites. - Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass. “I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.” . From Slavery to Freedom. 9. th. ed.. © 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. . 2. New Amsterdam. Imperial Claims to North America. Early Settlements. Slaves played important role in Spanish efforts to gain foothold in North America. Barbados slaves codes brought to South Carolina. . Leads to massive Racism. . Imported in large numbers following:. Bacons Rebellion-1676. Invention of Cotton Gin- 1790 . Compromise of the Constitution. Rise of the Republican Party START Vocabulary Chase Nullified States Rights Which event links the last two words? Slave Power Conspiracy Make a link between the last two words Confederacy Secession Use your Beginning in the mid-19th century in America, childhood became synonymous with innocence—a reversal of the previously-dominant Calvinist belief that children were depraved, sinful creatures. As the idea of childhood innocence took hold, it became racialized: popular culture constructed white children as innocent and vulnerable while excluding black youth from these qualities. Actors, writers, and visual artists then began pairing white children with African American adults and children, thus transferring the quality of innocence to a variety of racial-political projects—a dynamic that Robin Bernstein calls “racial innocence.” This phenomenon informed racial formation from the mid-19th century through the early 20th century.Racial Innocence takes up a rich archive including books, toys, theatrical props, and domestic knickknacks which Bernstein analyzes as “scriptive things” that invite or prompt historically located practices while allowing for resistance and social improvisation. Integrating performance studies with literary and visual analysis, Bernstein offers singular readings of theatrical productions, from blackface minstrelsy to Uncle Tom’s Cabin to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz literary works by Joel Chandler Harris, Harriet Wilson, and Frances Hodgson Burnett material culture including Topsy pincushions, Uncle Tom and Little Eva handkerchiefs, and Raggedy Ann dolls and visual texts ranging from fine portraiture to advertisements for lard substitute. Throughout, Bernstein shows how “innocence” gradually became the exclusive province of white children—until the Civil Rights Movement succeeded not only in legally desegregating public spaces, but in culturally desegregating the concept of childhood itself.Writing in Children’s Literature, Philip Nel notes that Racial Innocence is “one of those rare books that shifts the paradigm—a book that, in years to come, will be recognized as a landmark in children’s literature and childhood studies.” In the journal Cultural Studies, reviewer Aaron C. Thomas says that Bernstein’s “theory of the scriptive thing asks us to see children as active participants in culture, and, in fact, as expert agents of the culture of childhood into which they have been interpellated. In this way, Bernstein is able not only to describe the effects of 19th-century radicalization on 21st century US culture, but also to illuminate the radicalized residues of our own childhoods in our everyday adult lives.” Racial Innocence was awarded the 2012 Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the award committee noted that the book “is a historiographic tour de force that traces a genealogy of the invention of the innocent (white) child and its racialized roots in 19th and 20th century U.S. popular culture.”