traditional "education" |
government-school traditions:
emphasis on rote knowledgeteacher's role is dominateteacher enforces disciplinesame-age groupingmost teaching done by teachercurriculm structured by teacherinstruction pa...
Posted by BlackWork on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:22:00 PST |
humans as legal property. |
"the fact of slavery had to have profound impact on the subsequent attitutudes of the larger society toward [Black people]. the fact of slavery helped to fix the sense of superior group position. chie...
Posted by BlackWork on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:11:00 PST |
the poorhouse. |
"there was, to be sure, a system of relief, the so-called poor laws. but this form of welfare was, in modern terms, primitive and harsh. local poor relief was niggardly and minimal. in the early ninet...
Posted by BlackWork on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:19:00 PST |
restoring humanity. |
"...sooner or later being less human leads the oppressed to struggle against those who made them so. in order for this struggle to have meaning the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their human...
Posted by BlackWork on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:28:00 PST |
ideas as weapons. |
"ideas and their creators run the world. christianity is an idea. islam is an idea. buddhism and hinduism are ideas. politics, science and technology are the results of ideas. capitalism and socialism...
Posted by BlackWork on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:36:00 PST |
trouble at school |
"attending school for the Black child is often a schizoid process. he is called upon to alienate himself abruptly from his culture and he must maintain a precarious psychic balance between a Black and...
Posted by BlackWork on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:35:00 PST |
manufactured conflict (cointelpro) |
"from that point on, the fbi escalated their 'intervention' into the conflict. they'd shoot at one organization, knowing that the other would get blamed and that the organization shot at would re...
Posted by BlackWork on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:46:00 PST |
start with self (as part of the collective)... |
"the use of nationalism as a point of departure is to start with one's own people and culture, one's own history and struggle. it is within this context that culture, national culture, is perceived an...
Posted by BlackWork on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:01:00 PST |
was elected officials enough? |
some reasons stated for reconstruction era's (negro elected officials) failure..
"land should have been divided among the negroes, forty acres to each family, and tools -- poor pay for the u...
Posted by BlackWork on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:26:00 PST |
is voting all we need? |
the following refers to the southern reconstruction era (1863/65-1877)
"in the face of massive evidence to the contrary, white conservatives continued to believe that the government would fall be...
Posted by BlackWork on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:18:00 PST |
