AF AMER M5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Combahee River, Parliament-Funkadelic, Nina Simone
15 May 2018
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Brain lotion: I wish I knew how it would feel to be free (song) Nina Simone
1. What is freedom?
a. Not being held down or restrictions, no pressure/concerns
2. What does it mean to you?
a. Contentment, individuality/independence, choices
3. How is it framed/explained in the readings?
a. Personal feeling rather than to be legally free
4. How is the song/musician in conversation?
Freedom
1. Is a central feature to the socio-economic and political organization of black American
communities
2. Is expressed in a multitude of ways, but key perspective have emphasized the undoing
of oppressive systems of ideology
3. Is not here just yet
Combahee River Collective
● Established 1974, lasting 1974-1980
● The actions/freedom plan at the Combahee River on June 2, 1863 in South Carolina
Chimamande Adichie- Ted X talk
● Gender is a grave injustice, change raising of each gender
● Boys:
○ Have a narrow range of masculinity
○ Fragile egos
● Girls:
○ Cater to male’s fragile egos
○ Marriage is “most important”
○ Compromise; attention
○ Cannot be sexual
○ Inherently guilty
Compare the two in a “then” and “now” venn diagram
Brain lotion (2)- “Chocolate City” by Parliament Funkadelic
1. How is the song in conversation with the reading?
a. More optimistic
2. What does chocolate city mean?Wherever there is black culture or influences; not a
physical location
3. Claim freedom
4. Chocolate cities, vanilla suburbs
Du Bois
● Preeminent and foundational sociologist and activist (1868-1963)
● Harvard’s 1st black PHD
● Founder NAACP, the Crisis Journal, Niagra Movement
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