HDFS470 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Intercultural Competence, Promiscuity

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDFS470
• Professor: Roderick Carey

Document Summary

How did enslavement place the black family at risk, impossibility of family. Spurred by fundamental denial of humanity of imbued by being enslaved: you could not enslave people, therefore, black people were seen as less than people. They were only important because of what they could do. Enslaved people were property, commodity, not human: accompanies this notion. Some of owner/overseer"s scrutiny, but also to do family: raise kids. Be intimate: celebrate, heal each other, cry, mourn. Pass down lessons: there was no formal protection for these people ever. No formal protections for these people as humans. At risk of being sold away from family members. At risk of being beaten, whipped, flogged, dismembered. At risk of being sexually assaulted or raped. Sometimes for power and humiliation: how did the black family prove resiliency during enslavement and afterward, interracial marriages, searching for families through ads, churches etc. After slavery ended, people saught out their family,