... or could afford to lose." Because there were limited objective measures readily available to verify health complaints and claims of pregnancy, it was very common for a slave women to use the aforementioned excuses to reduce her workload. Moreover, infanticide, abortion and use of contraceptives were also forms of resistance among enslaved women. In his article "Resisting ... Reproduction", Liese M. Perrin discusses the use of the cotton root as a form of birth-control among the slaves. He states that slave women recognized their child-bearing capacity as a source of extra capital and wer...

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... of traditional activity, and have emerged as prime users of these traditional avenues in contemporary American politics. As enslaved African females they were the victims of dual oppression, one issuing from race and the other from sex. Subjected to the slave status ascribed to their African male kin, they were further victimized by a body of hostile public policy directed toward them as women ... . African American enslaved women took leading role in organizing their community in order to lessen the hostile impact of the slave system on individual and family life. They engaged in physica...

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... of biological inferiority have been replaced, in many instances, by a form of cultural racism within American institutions. This exists when implicit racist assumptions, particularly cultural ones, infect the conduct, practices and arrangements of institutions. This type of institutionalized racism often leads to a perception of a particular group, generally blacks, as "culturally deprived" and, although ... optimistic regarding society's ability to organize in such a fashion, Wilson is extremely optimistic. I believe Katznelson's relative pessimism stems from his distress over the ongo...

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... of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force- (Hooks , 1995). She claims that "white supremacy" is a better phrase than "internalized racism" in describing the absorption by black people of negative attitudes typically held by white people about blackness. "White supremacy" is also useful when referring to how black people are able to exercise "white ... supremacist control" over one another. Hooks views the emphasis of the struggle against "white supremacy" as helping to form coalitions among peoples of color as a catalyst of dismantling w...

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... 2011 and Ferguson in 2014, questions of race, class, gender and other intersectional socio-political categories come to the fore. There is often an opposition between those who riot and those who oppose the rioters, between the establishment (represented by the government, the police) and those who protest against it. In London in 2011 thousands of people protested, rioted and ... of London and Ferguson such intersectional figures often became highly important to the events and the discourse which surrounded them. This kind of discourse demonstrated the central opposition in both the Lo...

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... by instituting various laws such as color bars and a highly vulnerable migrant labor brought forward by Bantustans. This relationship in turn allowed the apartheid government to have the capital backing to instigate various racist policies to further segregate the peoples of South Africa. This essay will argue that racism was indeed functional to capitalism in South Africa however this article will further ... that was supposed to live in it but also lacked basic industry for any viable economy to grow. Such racist policy would be extremely functional for south African capitalism since ...

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