He sees the ultimate ending of racism as tied into gender and class equality: he points out that anti-racism ultimately only benefits the top one per cent and that at the height of slavery there was a majority of poor whites in the American south.
Kendi also returns to certain key terms again and again in the book: monogenesis, polygenesis, assimilationism, abolitionism; there is also a climate theory that claimed that black people exposed to a moderate climate effectively could become white! In both racist and anti-racist positions Kendi identifies racist tendencies. Besides, Kendi maintains that racism persists despite any rational evidence — just look at the crazy Birther accusations levelled at Obama.
The hugely impressive figure of Obama could be seen as the ultimate model person. There are points in the book where what seems to be an attempt to name damage that black people have suffered at the hands of centuries of racism is unfairly named as racism by Kendi.
This is a powerful book, bracingly challenging and impressive in its scholarship and the brilliant organisation of its substantial material. Please update your payment details to keep enjoying your Irish Times subscription. Impressive and challenging look at the history of racist ideas in US Epic in scope, this book examines the many different and complex sources of racism The book is hugely impressive in following the often complex threads of various racist attitudes and sources from pamphlets, pulpits and political discourse to the arts.
Kevin Gildea. Sat, Jul 29, , First published: Sat, Jul 29, , More from The Irish Times Books. TV, Radio, Web. Second, Blackness needs to be associated with slavery. The idea develops over time. In sources from antiquity there is no clear link between skin color and slavery. Late antique Rabbinic traditions such as those of R. Huna and R. Joseph fourth century in Genesis Rabbah distinguish between blackness on the one hand, and slavery on the other, but do not conflate the two Goldenberg, Curse This is repeated in a number of influential sources known to Iberian authors, who in turn introduce their own innovations to the legend.
Qatada relates that there were only eight people on the Ark: Noah, his wife, his three sons Shem, Ham, and Japeth; Ham hit his wife on the Ark and for this reason Noah asked God to turn his seed black, and that is the origin of the Blacks al-Tarafi The first Western Latin reference is found in the Extractiones de Talmut , a Latin translation of key passages of the Talmud meant to serve as a resource for anti-Jewish polemicists.
T-O Map Etymologiae 12th c. And these, placed all together in that field, were a marvellous sight; for amongst them were some white enough, fair to look upon, and well proportioned; others were less white like mulattoes; others again were as black as Ethiops, and so ugly, both in features and in body, as almost to appear to those who saw them the images of a lower hemisphere.
But what heart could be so hard as not to be pierced with piteous feeling to see that company? For some kept their heads low and their faces bathed in tears, looking one upon another; others stood groaning very dolorously, looking up to the height of heaven, fixing their eyes upon it, crying out loudly, as if asking help of the Father of Nature; others struck their faces with the palms of their hands, throwing themselves at full length upon the ground; others made their lamentations in the manner of a dirge, after the custom of their country.
And though we could not understand the words of their language, the sound of it right well accorded with the measure of their sadness. But to increase their sufferings still more, there now arrived those who had charge of the division of the captives, and who began to separate one from another, in order to make an equal partition of the fifths; and then was it needful to part fathers from sons, husbands from wives, brother from brothers.
O powerful fortune, that with thy wheels doest and undoest, compassing the matters of this world as pleaseth thee, do thou at last put before the eyes of that miserable race some understanding of matters to come; that they may receive some consolation in the midst of their great sorrow.
And you who are so busy in making that division of the captives, look with pity upon so much misery; and see how they cling one to the other, so that you can hardly separate them.
And who could finish that partition without very great toil? And so troublously they finished the partition; for besides the toil they had with the captives, the field was quite full of people, both from the town [Lagos] and from the surrounding villages and districts, who for that day gave rest to their hands in which lay their power to get their living for the sole purpose of beholding this novelty.
And with what they saw, while some were weeping and others separating the captives, they caused such a tumult as greatly to confuse those who directed the partition. Spanish: A priest's condemnation of the slave trade , Map zoomable : West Africa , Guinea propia.
How do the authors interpret the slave trade as a human, political, or economic institution? What is "right" or "wrong" in their estimation about the capture and sale of Africans? Compare the European-African encounters with the European-Indian encounters.
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