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Tigritude: Of the Souls and Spiritual Strivings of Aime Cesaire and Leopold Senghor

Masilo Lepuru — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 18:07:15 +0000

“A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces” (Wole Soyinka, 1964) The Newtonian equation that for every action there is a reaction is not just an axiom in classical physics. It also applies in the so-called social sciences and humanities. French colonialism and imperialism are the condition of possibility for the emergence of the [...]

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Black Lives Matter: ‘Get Your Knee off My Neck’, ‘I Can’t breathe’

Luvuyo Mthimkhulu Dondolo, Ph.D. — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:07:06 +0000

‘I was born to work up to my grave, but I was not born to be a slave’ – Maya Angelou (2014) The United States (US) has a peculiar history of racialised police brutality. This phenomena points to a number of issues in American society and some with a long tradition that dates back to [...]

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Racism

Ntshala Mahase — Mon, 28 May 2018 08:55:25 +0000

At the center of misdiagnosing racism has always been, for years, the undermining of the effect and role of macro-economics in its manifestations. The mistake black people often make, according to Dr Umar Johnson, is to relegate racism to a moral issue and that in itself reduces racism into the realm of religion and spirituality. [...]

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Only privilege speaks: White racism & black hypocrisy(Around hair politics) in South Africa

Thandolwetu Sipuye — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 06:48:59 +0000

Privilege and proximity to whiteness speaks. A position of privilege and relative proximity to whiteness not only gives you a voice to speak in this country, it also provides you with an inter-national audience, ministerial interventions, public outrage, debates and dialogues. And of course, you form part of the ‘national narrative’. The recent protest by [...]

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#StopRacismAtPretoriaGirlsHigh

Afro Hair in Fashion — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 08:46:34 +0000

‘It saddens me that these 13 year olds from Pretoria Girls High are put in a position where they have to be bold, to be fighters. These are children, and as much as it is right to applaud them for their courage, we need to take a stand to change the society in which we [...]

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LUISTER – The doccie that exposes racism at Stellenbosch University

Consciousness Admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 06:33:54 +0000

Source: http://www.enca.com/ STELLENBOSCH – Luister is a documentary about the lives of students of colour who attend Stellenbosch University in South Africa. In a series of interviews, students recount instances of racial prejudice that they continue to experience in the town of Stellenbosch, and the enormous challenges that they face due to the use of Afrikaans [...]

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Racism Masked as Innocence

Baba Buntu — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 18:50:57 +0000

One shockingly disturbing example of blatant racism being masked as “innocent tradition” is ZWARTE PIET (Black Piet); a coonish character which is part of the December-feast of St Nicholas in Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg (5-6 December). For centuries these celebrations have included public parades with a white man or woman painted in blackface, dressed in [...]

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Air you can breathe

Phillippa Yaa De Villiers — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 18:37:27 +0000

At the Wits panel on ‘decolonization’ the rage was palpable, the anxiety intense. Like many of the confrontations in our society, it was all about race, and racial identity. But is there more to the argument? Often the most important intentions that are communicated are obscured by the noise of fear and anger. The message [...]

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Human zoos

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 15:35:08 +0000

source: Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org) Human zoos (also called ethnological expositions or Negro Villages) were 19th- and 20th-century public exhibits of humans, usually in a so-called natural or primitive state. The displays often emphasized the cultural differences between Europeans of Western civilization and non-European peoples. Ethnographic zoos were often predicated on unilinealism, scientific racism and social Darwinism. [...]

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