Journal 15 pages
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Journal #1 – The Legacies of Slavery in the Americas
Take copious notes on these film clips and readings. Then, give thoughtful responses to the following questions for each film/reading selection. For each question, bring in analysis from our weekly readings.
African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross – Episode 1 (The Black Atlantic)
1. Juan Garrido & Esteban
2. 1619- Describe “how things changed” for Africans with Jamestown and the gradual emergence of slave based plantations
3. Anthony Johnson and the emergence of “race based” slavery
Parker’s Ch. 12 “All the Slaves are Enemies”
4. What does Parker say about the emergence of race?
5. Undesirable immigrants
6. “Africanization” of the Islands
Johnson, “You Should Give them Blacks to Eat”
7. Use of animals for creating an air of fear for all colonists
8. State funding for state-sanctioned torture
9. Legacies that we see modern day (hegemony) regarding use of animals to threaten people of color
Montejo, “Diary of a Runaway Slave”
10. Describe the barracoons that Montejo describes
11. Chinese slaves in Cuba
12. Importance Montejo puts on the “games” played by slaves
Jones-Rogers, “Mistresses in the Making”
13. How did young white women learn to be “mistresses’ and what did that entail?
14. What types of punishments did enslaved Africans in the US endure?
15. Did Whites have to own someone to exert power over them? Explain.
16. Importance of White women inheriting slaves
Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment
17. Purpose of the Thirteenth Amendment
18. What exception is given in the Thirteenth Amendment? Why is it significant?
19. Purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation
20. What exception is given in the Emancipation Proclamation? Why is it significant?
B lack Codes
21. What consequences did whites face if they interacted with blacks? Explain.
22. Why would it be beneficial to keep the two racial groups separate? (from the oppressor’s point of view)
23. Mentions of children in the Mississippi Black Codes
“Pedigree and Poor White Trash”
24. How did the terminology for poor southern Whites change after the Civil War?
25. What are the implications of ‘white trash’ being labeled a ‘race’?
26. Explain the popular depictions of poor white trash and explain how the equivalences benefit the oppressor
Caste by Wilkerson, pgs. 121-130
27. How was citizenship made inaccessible, and how does it relate to the creation of racial caste?
28. Why were the stories of Takao Ozawa and Vaishno Das Bagai significant?
29. What were the similarities between how Dalits and Black Americans were treated?
30. Comment on the idea that some people are ‘dirty’ and the urge to wash yourself after being near them
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