The Urgency of Intersectionality video analysis please follow the instruction in the attached files. the instructor is very restricted about the grading po

The Urgency of Intersectionality video analysis please follow the instruction in the attached files. the instructor is very restricted about the grading policy. 1. After watching the TEDTalk on “The Urgency of Intersectionality ” by Crenshaw
and Reading “The Politics of Radical Black Subjectivity” by Hooks, reflect on the
following questions (300 Words Max)
2. According to Crenshaw, “we have to move from mourning and grief to action and
transformation.” How can we take some action to help solve some problems in our
communities?
3. What is your interpretation of Freire’s quote “we cannot enter the struggle as objects in
order to later become objects” given our current political and social climate?
4. How do you connect Crenshaw’s idea of intersectionality, Hooks’ ideas of
“representation,” “bad and good images,” “canon formation,” and your own personal
experience as a male/female, White, Black, Latino/Latina, Asian, poor, middle-class,
gay, straight, bisexual, queer, lesbian, transgender, etc., with civic engagement and more
inclusive practices? Are Hooks’ and Crenshaw’s ideas connected? How?
Important!
1. You can either write a question-by-question reflection or write a 500-word text that
includes all your ideas in a whole narrative.
2. Make a comment on one of your classmates’ posts. (100 words max)
3. Remember to include an MLA “Works Cited Page” at the end of your post in which you
include all the scholarly and popular sources you used—besides Crenshaw’s talk and
Hooks’ written work.
Your entry should reflect your careful reading and ideas should be supported based on the
materials you were assigned to read.
2. You are more than welcome to use other scholarly and popular sources if you feel
that your argument should be further developed and supported.
3. You will visualize other people’s posts or entries after you post yours. After that,
respond to one of your classmates’ posts.
Important Considerations:
1. It is expected to disagree with some of your classmates’ ideas. However, you should do
it in a very academic and respectful way. Lack of respect and cyberbullying will be
penalized.
2. The use of Netiquette (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.is essential
when emailing, posting and responding.
3. Make sure you comply with the number of words either when you post or when you
respond to someone’s posts.
Discussion Board Rubric
4. This post demonstrates careful reading and reflexion in relation to the different topics
in the coursebook. There are meaningful examples and appropriation of content.
5. This post includes some ideas presented in the coursebook. However, it presents a
summary of aspects rather than a deep analysis and reflection.
6. This post just includes a list of aspects that are mentioned in the coursebook without
further explanation and analysis.
1. After watching the TEDTalk on “The Urgency of Intersectionality ” by Crenshaw
and Reading “The Politics of Radical Black Subjectivity” by Hooks, reflect on the
following questions (300 Words Max)
2. According to Crenshaw, “we have to move from mourning and grief to action and
transformation.” How can we take some action to help solve some problems in our
communities?
3. What is your interpretation of Freire’s quote “we cannot enter the struggle as objects in
order to later become objects” given our current political and social climate?
4. How do you connect Crenshaw’s idea of intersectionality, Hooks’ ideas of
“representation,” “bad and good images,” “canon formation,” and your own personal
experience as a male/female, White, Black, Latino/Latina, Asian, poor, middle-class,
gay, straight, bisexual, queer, lesbian, transgender, etc., with civic engagement and more
inclusive practices? Are Hooks’ and Crenshaw’s ideas connected? How?
Important!
1. You can either write a question-by-question reflection or write a 500-word text that
includes all your ideas in a whole narrative.
2. Make a comment on one of your classmates’ posts. (100 words max)
3. Remember to include an MLA “Works Cited Page” at the end of your post in which you
include all the scholarly and popular sources you used—besides Crenshaw’s talk and
Hooks’ written work.
Your entry should reflect your careful reading and ideas should be supported based on the
materials you were assigned to read.
2. You are more than welcome to use other scholarly and popular sources if you feel
that your argument should be further developed and supported.
3. You will visualize other people’s posts or entries after you post yours. After that,
respond to one of your classmates’ posts.
Important Considerations:
1. It is expected to disagree with some of your classmates’ ideas. However, you should do
it in a very academic and respectful way. Lack of respect and cyberbullying will be
penalized.
2. The use of Netiquette (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.is essential
when emailing, posting and responding.
3. Make sure you comply with the number of words either when you post or when you
respond to someone’s posts.
Discussion Board Rubric
4. This post demonstrates careful reading and reflexion in relation to the different topics
in the coursebook. There are meaningful examples and appropriation of content.
5. This post includes some ideas presented in the coursebook. However, it presents a
summary of aspects rather than a deep analysis and reflection.
6. This post just includes a list of aspects that are mentioned in the coursebook without
further explanation and analysis.
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I-< MonthlYear: CIO I'0 ra "'0 Email: Odyssey: 206.107.45.40 Issue: It) It) 5 CZl ....... Call #: E185.86 .H742 1990 Location: MAIN MSTCK :J Title not on shelf Volume not on shelf Issue/article missing from volume ITEM NOT FOUND AS CITED: Volume/year mismatch ILL Number: ~13349562 1/11//1/11I///111///11 /////1/1/1/1/1/1///11///1/111/11I • Not found in volume Not found in year Need more information Checked index • Checked TOC No article by author/title on pages given • Checked TOC OTHER: SCANNED BY: __ (initials) 2 THE POLITICS OF RADICAL BlACK SUBJECTIVITY I often begin courses which focus on Afncan-American literature, and sometimes specifically black women writers, with a declarationby Paulo Freire which had a profound liberatory effect on mythinking:"Wecannot enter the struggle as objects ill,order to later . become subjects. "TIlls statement compels reflection on how the domi- nated,me6j5pressed, the exploited make ourselves subject. How do we create an oppositional worldview, a consciousness, an identity, a standpointthat exists not only as that struggle which also opposes dehumanization but as that movement which enables creative, expansive self-actualization?Opposition is not enough, In that vacant space after one has resisted there is still the necessity to become-to make oneself anew, Resistance is that struggle we can most easily grasp, Even the most subjected person has moments of rage and resentment so intense that they respond, they act against There is an inner uprising that leadsto rebellion, however short-lived, It may be only momentary but it takes place, That space within oneself where resistance is possible remains:It is different then to talk about becoming subjects. That process emerges as one comes to understand how structures of domina- tion work in one's own life, as one develops critical thinking and criticalconsciousness, as one invents new, alternative habits of being, andresistsfrom that marginal space of difference inwardly defined. Retrospective examination of black liberation struggle in the UnitedStates indicates the extent to which ideas about "freedom" were informed by efforts to imitate the behavior, lifestyles, and most importantlythe values and consciousness of white colonizers. Much civil rightsreform reinforced the idea that black liberation should be de15 16 YEAfu'llNG fined by the degree to which black people gained equal access to material opportunities and privileges available to whites-jobs, housing, schooling, etc. And even though the more radical 1960s black power movement repudiated imitation of whites, emphasizing pan-Africanist connections, their vision of liberation was not particularly distinctive or revolutionary. Certainly the core of Black Muslim liberatory efforts also centered around gaining access to material privileges (though from the standpoint of black self-determination and control), the kind of nation-building which would place black men in positions of authority and power. Sexism has diminished the power of all black liberation struggles-reformist or revolutionary. Ironically, the more radical black nationalist liberation efforts were informed by a sexism much more severe than any present in earlier civil rights reform. The legacies of Fannie Lou Hamer, Septima Clark, Rosa Parks, Ella Baker, and many unknown black women testify to the force of their presence, the intensity and value of their contributions to civil rights struggle. The work of black women active in the 19605 black power movement was often appropriated by black males without acknowledgment or recognition. Witness the fate of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson (an excellent article on her involvement in the struggle was published in the 1988 student supplement of SAGE.- A Scholarly Journal on Black Women). Commenting on Robinson's activism, Kathleen Cleaver suggests that she was subjected to a sexism that was fierce and unrelenting . Cleaver says, "She was destroyed by the movement." Insistence on patriarchal values, on equating black liberation with black men gaining access to male privilege that would enable them to assert power over black women, was one of the most significant forces undermining radical struggle. Thorough critiques of gender would have compelled leaders of black liberation struggles to envision new strategies and to talk about black subjectivity in a visionary manner. Writer, activist, and feminist thinker Toni Cade Bambara participated in 1960s black liberation struggle, outspokenly emphasizing the undermining force of sexism as it informed the overall social status of black women, our participation in civil rights, as well as its debilitating impact on any attempt to radically re-vision black subjectiviry. Her essay, "On the Issue of Roles" remains a forceful critique of sexism, documenting the demand for a different agenda. Bambara specifically cites as dangerous the sexist emphasis on black female submission and silence in the name of liberation. On the roles assigned black women, she asserts: RADICALBLACK SUBJECTIVITY 17 She is being assigned an unreal role of mute servant that supposedly neutralizes the acidic tension that exists between Black men and Black women. She is being encouraged-in the name of revolution no less--to cultivate "virtues" that if listed would sound like personality traits of slaves. In other words, we are still abusing each other, aborting each other's nature-s-in the teeth of experiences both personal and historical that should alert us co the horror of a situation in which we profess to be about liberation but behave in a constricting manner; we rap about being correct but ignore the danger of having one half of OUf population regard the other with such condescension and perhaps fear that half finds it necessary to "reclaim his manhood" by denying her peoplehood. Perhaps we need to let go of all notions of manhood and femininity and concentrate on Blackhood. We have much, alas, to work against. The job of purging is staggering. It perhaps takes less heart to pick up the gun than to face the task of creating a new identity, a self, perhaps an androgynous self, via commitment to the struggle. Unfortunately the 1960s conflict over the issue of gender roles wasnot fruitfully debated and resolved. Collectively, black women and men did not begin to move in a direction challenging sexist norms. Contemporary feminist movement has not yet had revolutionary impacton black political thinking. Politically, black men continue to assumedominant leadership roles, rarely if ever paying lip service to theneed for a change in thinking about gender. Even when Jesse Jackson emphasized gender issues in his recent campaign, his comments weremost often perceived as being addressed to a white female constituency.Many Jesse Jackson supporters were black women, yet he nevermade any specific appeals to gender concerns that deeply affect Ourfuture, issues of poverty and childcare. Black male and female refusalto consider the importance of eradicating sexism has ongoing negativeconsequences for black solidarity. On the cultural scene, a visible split has emerged between many blackmen and women, one that suggests our concerns are not similar, thatwe do not share a common ground where we can engage in criti- caldialogue about aesthetics, gender, feminist politics, etc. Viewers of the much talked-about play The Colored Museum cannot fail to note that much of the black cultural production that is ridiculed and mocked either represents black female concerns or refers to creative work by black women artists. Cultural examples that position black women and men in an ongoing adversarial relationship can be seen in 18 critical responses YEARNING to Alice Walker's book The Color Purple; in Stanley Crouch's scathing conunents on Toni Morrison's Beloved; and in discussions of Spike Lee's films She's Gatta Have It and School Daze. The latter contrasts two black males' engagement with male bonding via involvement in global politics and sexist dehumanization of a black female as initiation rite which enables affirmation of black power and brotherhood. Then there are the plays of August Wilson. Fences poignantly portrays complex negative contradictions within black masculinity in a white supremacist social context. However, patriarchy is not critiqued, and even though tragic expressions of conventional masculinity are evoked, sexist values are re-inscribed via the black woman's redemption message as the play ends. Examples of brutal conflict between black women and men abound in black women's fiction-The Women of Brewster Place, The Bluest Eye, The Third Life of Grange Copeland-which highlights gender roles, especially the sexism of black male characters. Then there is the literary response to that representation, works like Ishmael Reed's novel Reckless Eyeballing and most recently Trey Ellis's Platitudes. --- Many of the works I have cited in no way represent counter-hegemonic cultural practice. In some cases the veiled political agendas affirmed in particular works are reactionary and conservative. Black- .!!ess does Dot m@"" !hat-we-areltinereriily oppesmcnal. Our creanve wOrJ Purchase answer to see full attachment