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The cost of globalization : dangers to the earth and its people
\"This volume examines the many pitfalls of globalization from the perspective of impoverished and indigenous peoples, including the widening wealth gap, the struggle for restoration of dispossessed lands and cultural rights, global warming and ecological annihilation, and the experiences of women in underdeveloped regions who receive little benefit from their labor and are subject to violence\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Restoring Africa's Heartland: Earth, Women, Culture, and Community
This article will examine the issue of the environmental devastation and cultural despoliation of the African continent, rooted in the destruction of the Earth conceptualized in medieval and postmedieval European industrial cultures that viewed the Earth as a commodity for extraction and exploitation. The subsequent industrially induced erasure of forests; decimation of the landscape; pollution of rivers, seaways, and water systems; vitiation of clean air; and the continued subjugation of women has produced a continent now in social, economic, and cultural decay in many respects. The article is concerned with addressing the crisis of environmental degradation, economic underdevelopment, and concomitant disempowerment of women. It painstakingly proposes Indigenous cultural and cosmological approaches in the 21st century as ways of addressing the crisis of environmental despoliation and gender oppression in Africa so that humans and all life on the continent are empowered to live in community and harmony with each other, and conjointly build sustainable socioeconomies that serve the needs of Africa's people, particularly those who reside in impoverished contexts.
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Justice Never Too Late
Kunnie discusses the historical background to current reparations movements among Africans and African Americans. The subject of reparations for the holocaust of unjust enslavement particularly of African people comes at an opportune time in 2018 as the states of Africa, the Caribbean, and African-descended people in the United States and Europe continue to experience the ravages of neocolonialism. The prolonged economic impoverishment is the result of greed on the part of the titans of globalized capital and Western imperialism, led by the US and facilitated by the military, political, and economic actions of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU).
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Black studies in the 21st century: resistance to colonization, globalization, and genocide
This article provides a historical backdrop of the racist colonial system that enslaved and exploited Black people for the past five centuries and exterminated millions in the process of such subjugation, a genocide whose aftermath lingers into the present structures of the contemporary globalized world that ravages Mother Earth, annihilates the ecology, impoverishes marginalized women and working classes in the underdeveloped world and communities of color in the West, intensifies the prison industrial complex especially in the United States where Black people continue to be held in abject slavery behind bars by the hundreds of thousands, and poisons food, water, and air by ruthless capitalist trans-national corporations steeped in insane industrialism. Thus, this discourse on Black Studies highlights the urgent need for the expansion of Black Studies in schools, colleges, universities, and communities so that the anomaly of Black enslavement can be arrested by an educational program of liberation that corrects the historical record that denies Black civilizations, transforms the existing educational status quo that distorts the reality of Black life and culture, and necessitates a return to the wellspring of African ancestral wisdom, language, and culture.
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Apartheid in Arizona? HB 2281 and Arizona's Denial of Human Rights of Peoples of Color
Kunnie examines the antecedents of Arizona HB 2281and its implications for education and proposes strategies of resistance and redress so that educational and social justice can be accomplished. The law bans Ethnic Studies in Arizona and, in essence, stifles the thought process of all students at Arizona schools because it dictates what and how they are taught.
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Richard Wright's interrogation of negritude: revolutionary implications for Pan Africanism and Liberation
Profits from the slave trade built Liverpool docks, the foundations of the city were built of human flesh and blood.3 And on the West African coast of Ghana: In 1441 a Portuguese navigator, one Antonia Gonzales, launched the slave trade on these shores by kidnapping Africans; evidently the Christians of Portugal liked the services of those blacks, for Gonzales returned in 1442 for another shipload. [...]were inaugurated those acts of banditry which, as the decades passed, were erected into an institution that bled Africa and fattened Europe. According to him, his very blackness signifies his alienation from the continent and his very body stands for foreignness in the eyes of the natives. [...]there was Europe's material emphasis on material acquisitiveness and resource accumulation, usually obtained at the sacrifice of the natural world.38 Responding to those scholars and critics who explain that Europe underwent certain peculiar cultural changes owing to it being overcrowded and resulting in \"particular social structures,\" Sale asserts that he is unconvinced by this argument about Europe's special material conditions justifying its acquisitive and rapacious cultural behavior: [...]surely the chief reason for this was the power of the still young but increasingly vigorous capitalist system, moving into vacuums left by medieval institutions, the likes of which existed nowhere else: more materialist, for sure, than any other economy, more expansionist, more volatile and energetic, more linked to growth and progress, and almost everywhere without the kinds of moral inhibitions found in the world's other high cultures.39 Following this painstaking backdrop, we come to understand viscerally the manner that anthropological definitions of culture and those developed by social scientists were part and parcel of the Eurocentric colonializing project in the world, providing the ideological legitimation of the penetration of global Indigenous cultures and pillage of vital natural resources that had been depleted in a materially obsessed and violence-preoccupied medieval Europe. [...]the colonizers claimed that they were the carriers of \"culture\" and \"civilization\" to the \"uncultured\" and \"uncivilized\" heathen.
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