English 4400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sani Abacha, Chinua Achebe, Ken Saro-Wiwa
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He identifies it as starting in the 15th century. It is a struggle in diversity, with diverse social backgrounds, but all experiences the same social struggle due to the. It was also there that race was established as a form of human categorization. The notion of blackness with inferior race emerged out of slavery. It was during the period of slavery that blackness was objectified. In 1455, the papal bull urged european powers to reduce to servitude all infidel peoples . It developed as a response to this objectification of blackness. He lists authors, poets, political writers, who together, started articulating notions of blackness, where it was beautiful, and establish a notion of a black person being human, and a new notion of black humanity. He emphasizes the harlem renaissance, n gritude, and ethiopianism. They had to use the tools of enlightenment, and a way of reasoning similar to the europeans.
