GNDS 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Prison Reform, Interracial Adoption, Angela Davis
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Sandra spears strong spirit, fractured identity: an ojibway adoptees journey to wholeness. How to demystify and decolonize the institution of transracial adoption. Holding, surviving and honoring several truths, several histories. Epidermalization: the being based on the colour on ones skin. Performing/dressing up as who one actually, really is . Healing fractures in the self and in other perceptions of that self, honouring self knowledge. She treats the narrative as though she didn"t have a place for her self in her body. She doesn"t have a framework for discovering herself she is adopted into a white family. She doesn"t have a mirror to view her beauty but a mirror to see her differences. Talking about the formation of a political movement to abolish prisons or to abolish racial slavery in the united states. Prison strike largest in history (this past september) Failing to respect fundamental human rights for prisoners. Refusal to work within the prisons: meaning that the prisons loose money.