What is Blackness

What is Blackness?

Two Components:

The External: The Stigma of Dark Skin and African Features
The Internal: Pride in Culture, History, Survival, Struggle and Achievements

Slavery and African American Memory: A Source of Pride or Shame?

Harvard Sociologist Orlando Patterson: Slavery as Social Death -- A Collective Trauma That Wipes Out Culture, Personality, & Self-Esteem

The Resistance School of Slave History: From Slave Revolts and Covert Resistance to the Persistence of Family Life and Cultural Traditions

A Related Debate:
Do African Cultural Practices Survive in African-American Communities?
Or Is African-American Culture Solely a Product of the American Experience?

Robinson’s Case for Reparations

Rewriting the American Historical Narrative to Make His Case

Hypocrisy of Freedom Talk

Demonstrating the Contributions of African Slaves to American Wealth and Culture

Challenging notions of African "backwardness"

Only Reparations Can Solve the Race Problem