But it was the contrast of an en- campment of poor people versus the expression of power that gave it resonance
Dare I say, symbolic!
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But nothing happened until King was assassinated, I don't know where would we have gotten if that had not happened. Because there was a lot of feet dragging, and talking, and after King was assassinated, we got the site
Wow, I don't know if irony is the right word here but this feels like it should be unpacked more.
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displacement of differ-ence
Re: redlining, segregation, gentrification
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acial-sexual hierarchies anddue totheir (often unacknowledged) status as geographic beings who have astake in the production of space.
Comes back to hooks' piece
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whereof race
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differential and contextual histories
Silent narratives
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the profitable erasure and objectification ofsubaltern subjectivities, stories, and lands
In postcolonial theory, the term subaltern describes the lower social classes and the Other social groups displaced to the margins of a society; in an imperial colony, a subaltern is a native man or woman without human agency, as defined by his and her social status.
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alterabil-ity of space and place
Reminds me of Tim Ingold's meshwork https://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/the-hope-of-creation-a-conversation-with-timothy-ingold/
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Whatever the shape and direction of black liberation struggle (civil rights reform or black power movement), domestic space has been a crucial site for organizing, for forming political solidarity.
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It should provide a framework where we can discuss the development of black female political consciousness, acknowledging the political importance of resistance effort that took place in homes
Bottom-up rather than top-down (academia, state/national politics)
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