DEVS 100 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Indigenous Feminism, Red Power Movement, Lake Superior
6 Apr 2013
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Global development studies quiz #1 notes (weeks 1-3) When critically analyzing and article, note: author (background, ethnicity, education, etc. website/magazine/newspaper, who is cited, use of i and we , repetition of certain words, inconsistancies/contradictions. Black feminist thought: knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment (collins) Black feminist thought fosters a fundamental paradigmatic shift that rejects additive approaches to oppression. Instead of starting with gender and then adding other variables such as age, sexual orientation, race, social class, and religion, black feminist thought sees these distinctive systems of oppression as being part of one overarching structure of domination. Afrocentric notions of family: mothers, bloodmothers, community othermothers, challenges eurocentric masculinist perspectives on family. Arbitrary : the communities or spheres of influence set up by black women can serve as source of support when black women encounter race, gender, and class oppression. Prefer and alternative vision of power based on humanist vision of self-activation, self- definition, and self-determination.
