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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMichael Harriot's "Drapetomaniax: Unshackled History" (of black history)
A podcast with Michael Harriot.
Drapetomaniax: Unshackled History, is a Black history lesson unlike any other. Equal parts funny and informative, each episode mixes comprehensive research, Harriots unrivaled comedic wit and an assortment of celebrity guests, including Yvette Nicole Brown, MSNBCs Joy Reid and Charlamagne tha God to help bring Black stories youve likely never heard to life.
Podcast schedule page for Drapetomaniax: Unshackled History Also contains link to open podcast on your computer.
Drapetomania was the term coined by the racist doctor Samuel A. Cartwright who claimed that slaves wanting to escape bondage must be mentally ill because slavery much improved the lives of black people bought and sold into slavery. He published a paper on his racist concept.
When people talk of slavery not being that bad, or of "good" masters, or slavery being beneficial to those enslaved, you can see the concept of drapetomania running through such thinking. ("Why are those people complaining, slavery wasn't that bad?" - the implication being something must be wrong with black people to think slavery was bad. The are plenty other examples out there.)
If you can, give a listen.
Thanks!
Solly
brer cat
(24,690 posts)Bookmarking for later listening. Thanks, Solly!
Solly Mack
(90,814 posts)leftstreet
(36,119 posts)Solly Mack
(90,814 posts)Aristus
(66,587 posts)also coined the diagnoses rascality and negritude.
I hope that motherfucker (or cousinfucker, whatever
) is burning in agony down in Hell for all eternity.
Solly Mack
(90,814 posts)It means the positive self-affirmation of blackness. Of what it means to be black in a world dominated by the colonizer - the white world.
Aristus
(66,587 posts)diagnoses of people desperate to escape from enslavement. As if wanting that was a mental illness.
Thank you for correcting me.
Solly Mack
(90,814 posts)But the movement itself wasn't. Cesaire was a French born, of Nigerian descent, poet and author.
Aristus
(66,587 posts)Interesting. Its always good to learn new things.
Solly Mack
(90,814 posts)JustAnotherGen
(32,111 posts)Always looking for engaging podcasts for my commute days.
Solly Mack
(90,814 posts)It's good.
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