What is Blackness?
Two Components:
- The External: The Stigma of Dark Skin and African Features
- The Internal: Pride in Culture, History, Survival, Struggle and Achievements
Slavery and African American Memory: A Source of Pride or Shame?
- Harvard Sociologist Orlando Patterson: Slavery as Social Death -- A Collective Trauma That Wipes Out Culture, Personality, & Self-Esteem
- The Resistance School of Slave History: From Slave Revolts and Covert Resistance to the Persistence of Family Life and Cultural Traditions
A Related Debate:
Do African Cultural Practices Survive in African-American Communities?
Or Is African-American Culture Solely a Product of the American Experience?
Robinson�s Case for Reparations
- Rewriting the American Historical Narrative to Make His Case
- Hypocrisy of Freedom Talk
- Demonstrating the Contributions of African Slaves to American Wealth and Culture
- Challenging notions of African "backwardness"
- Only Reparations Can Solve the Race Problem