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Abolition medicine
[...]in 2018, after the publication of the American College of Physician's position paper on the country's epidemic of gun violence, the National Rifle Association tweeted that “anti-gun doctors” should “stay in their lane”, which incited the #ThisIsMyLane movement by US physicians, another narrative-based action. In narrative medicine and the health humanities, we often turn to structural competency, a term coined by Jonathan Metzl and Helena Hansen, which suggests that medical trainees need to be taught to recognise upstream causes, such as food deserts and housing inequality, of downstream health consequences, such as heart disease and diabetes. Supporting institutional efforts that provide reparations to communities of colour devastated by unethical medical experimentation, such as the class action lawsuit that ultimately awarded monetary restitution and a lifetime of free medical care to the families involved in the Tuskegee Study, is another instrument of social change for abolition medicine, as is advocating for universal health coverage. Importantly for us, practising abolition medicine entails health workers joining national conversations about police abolition and using their social power to reinvest in programmes that build community capacity for mental health care, youth development, education, and employment, as well as harm reduction efforts around drug use, housing insecurity, and incarceration.
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Horrors of Slavery
Barbary pirates in Africa targeted sailors for centuries, often taking slaves and demanding ransom in exchange. First published in 1808, Horrors of Slavery is the tale of one such sailor, captured during the United States's first military encounter with the Islamic world, the Tripolitan War. William Ray, along with three hundred crewmates, spent nineteen months in captivity after his ship, the Philadelphia, ran aground in the harbor of Tripoli. Imprisoned, Ray witnessed-and chronicled-many of the key moments of the military engagement. In addition to offering a compelling history of a little-known war, this book presents the valuable perspective of an ordinary seaman who was as concerned with the injustices of the U.S. Navy as he was with Barbary pirates.
Hester Blum's introduction situates Horrors of Slavery in its literary, historical, and political contexts, bringing to light a crucial episode in the early history of our country's relations with Islamic states.
A volume in the Subterranean Lives series, edited by Bradford Verter
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Black Objects: Animation and Objectification in Charles Chesnutt's Conjure Tales
According to Bill Brown, these commodities sought to \"deanimate\" stereotype, to \"fix a demeaning and/or romanticizing racism with the fortitude of solid form\" (2006, 185).7 For Patricia Turner, these collectibles show us how \"even after the institution of slavery was over, American consumers found acceptable ways of buying and selling the souls of black folk\" (quoted in Brown 2006, 186). According to Kevin K. Gaines, uplift literature in the Jim Crow era focused especially on representing the \"agency, respectability, and moral authority\" of African Americans (1996, 46). [...]his vitality is entwined with the vine, strengthening and weakening with the seasons, \"literalizing the common racist notion that the enslaved were closer to nature than were their masters and mistresses\" (Carpio 2008, 56). [...]his notion of an innate \"freedom drive\" in black performance seems to suppress Hartman's insights into the imbrication of everyday performance with disciplinary subjection, even as he elsewhere questions \"the valorization of movement and process,\" seeking to \"demythologize the durative, to debunk a certain set of transformational wishes\" (Moten 2003, 12, 125–26).
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The Significance of the \Global Turn\ for the Early American Republic: Globalization in the Age of Nation-Building
Even into the first decades of the nineteenth century, as geographic mobility increased and urban areas grew in size, most Americans were said to live in places dominated by face-to-face interactions and personal relationships.1 What a difference a couple of decades makes. [...]while Atlantic history has encouraged historians of the early American republic to expand their geographic horizons, it does not necessarily require a reconceptualization of the entire field.6 Global history, on the other hand, demands something more.
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“A Narrative to the Colored Children in America”: Lelia Amos Pendleton, African American History Textbooks, and Challenging Personhood
Numerous research studies have investigated the racist undertones of traditional history textbooks of the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century. Few studies, however, have thoroughly and theoretically explored how African American history textbooks and African American educators have responded to these racist textbooks. Utilizing the theory of revisionist ontology, this study sought to fill this gap by examining Lelia Amos Pendleton’s history textbook, A Narrative of the Negro. This article explicates Pendleton’s approach to historical writing and argues that her approach went beyond typical contributionist approaches to narration. It provides an example of a written account of history that reinvented African American personhood.
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The free blacks of Virginia: a personal narrative, a legal construct
The existence of the Free Blacks of Virginia as a group in United States history would surprise most Americans. The common narrative is that all Africans were brought to this country as slaves with no rights, and systematically received legal privileges after the Civil War in the 1860s and the Civil Rights struggle a century later. The reality differs from this assumption. The first Africans who landed on the shores of Virginia in 1619 began their lives as indentured servants similar to many European immigrants. After finishing their terms of service, these Africans were accorded liberties such as the right to vote, own property, and import both European and African servants. The mid to late 1600s brought the legal transformation of Africans from servants for a term to servants for life, or slaves with no rights. The author employs her own family's history in Virginia to illustrate how the initial cluster of Free Blacks grew through manumissions and births at the same time as their legal rights were systematically and dramatically restricted.
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Family History as Personal Narrative: Writing Black Gotham
[...]memory weighs heavily in what I write, in how I begin and in what I find to be significant. . Would I be faced with acts of forgetting, of what Morrison calls \"disremembering,\" which are also part of the memory process? I recalled that Denver's quest to re-create her mother's memories was driven by Sethe's willful attempts to repress and disremember her traumatic slave past. [...]whose memories would I be narrating?
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\The Blues Playingest Dog You Ever Heard Of\: (Re)positioning Literacy Through African American Blues Rhetoric
Building on scholarship in African American rhetorics and African American language, an analysis of Walter Dean Myers's (2000) \"The Blues of Flats Brown\" is presented as a methodology for (re)imagining educational issues and research related to voice, agency, reading, and literacy in the face of racial oppression and subjugation. In the analysis, blues music is viewed as an articulation of the reciprocal relationship between the political, economic, historical, and social struggles of African American masses and a unique cultural expression. The analysis also foregrounds the constructs of crossroads theory (Meacham, 2000, 2001a, 2001b) and code meshing (Canagarajah, 2006) as heuristics for understanding how literacy and language function in multiracial contexts for people who confront discrimination and subjugation. Several discourse strategies are highlighted in the analysis of the text: the use of the Great Migration and fugitive slave narratives, the use of linguistic markings to represent 20th-century white supremacy and the maintenance of southern and northern Jim Crow policies, the use of the South as a literary symbol of black home/motherland, the use of the blues and spirituals as a lyrical blueprint for narrative writing, and the use of the psychic and historical politics of the trickster as central to textual organization and characterization. The analysis of \"The Blues of Flats Brown\" is used to argue for an approach to reading in classrooms that centers students' cultural rhetorics.
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Race Relations Stories: How Southeast Asian Refugees Interpret the Ancestral Narration of Black and White Peers
The contact hypothesis (Allport 1954) predicts that cross-racial interaction can produce social bonding under certain status, relational, and institutional conditions. We extend this classic theory on ingroups and outgroups using qualitative data on Cambodian and Hmong refugees' recollections of casual conversations about ancestry with black and white peers. To cope with affective trauma, these refugees have created personal narratives about forced emigration. They believe that white peers shared stories about immigrant ancestors from Europe to affirm or elicit their emigration narrative. The refugees rarely believe that black peers' talk about slavery and discrimination was a story-sharing gesture and felt uncomfortable discussing these issues. Yet the refugees also feel disappointed when recalling interactions with assimilated white peers who \"don't have a story to tell\" about ancestry. From these inductive findings, this article proposes the corollary discourse hypothesis to explain how sentiments about intergroup narration, and not just frequency of contact, amplify or diminish empathy and association in a heterogeneous society.
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