AF AMER 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Peculiar Institution, Angela Davis, Penal Labour
23 Aug 2016
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It"s challenging to teach this because you have to teach so many aspects. Problem in black intellectual thought, conversation and literature is deeming to th literature because its real life. People of color relegated to a realm of social science. Distinguishes her narrative: first salve book written by a woman that shows the horrors of slavery for a woman. The term manhood is generic, the slave equated with a man, self conscious male intellectual. A slave women problems was she was a woman, and brought savage things like rape, rupture between mother child rupture. 19th- cult of true womanhood respectable - virtuous woman, sexually untouched is reflection of good. A slave didn"t have access as a womanhood bc sexuality attacked. The coming of age for dubois talks about the veil. Harriet- when she hits puberty and master starts to corrupt her by talking about sex as a girl her initiation into girlhood is initiation of corruption a lack of respectability.
