Integration/Race "Problem"
What are the harms, past and ongoing, against black persons in the United States
which historically construct white supremacy? - Correct answer loss of life, vending of
the body and for profit destruction of the family, silencing, plundered labor and wealth,
"missionization"/loss of religious goods, repeated infdiviaul and communal trauma
plundered labor and wealth - Correct answer slavery, sharecropping, bank and
insurance services denied, theft of land, excluded from use of GI bill, subprime market
treachery in early 00s; Income gap unchanged since 1970. Plus, no "wealth" safety net
and often excluded from "citizenry" social net
loss of life and the constant threat of violence to physical integrity - Correct answer
slavery, separation of families, lynching, arson and bombins, incarceration crisis, police
brutality, extrajudicial killings ( denial of medical care
Reducing American poverty is not the same as ending white supremacy. - Correct
answer Closing the achievement gap in not the same as closing the injury gap.
ecologically distinct neighborhoods and the concentration of disadvantage - Correct
answer aides and abets the myth of a cultural pathology, that middle class norms will
"shelter" black bodies from white supremacy
"missionization" - Correct answer justification of past (the "gift" of slavery as if God
needed our evil to make good) and the present (evangelism into white churches will
"save" them from "black cultural pathologies" i.e. in the eyes of white supremacy)
vending of the body and the for profit destruction of the family - Correct answer slavery,
sexual abuse, sexual exoticization, objectifying gaze, destruction of the family in
breeding and incarceration/CPS
silencing - Correct answer propriety norms (in worship), tone policing (in political/social
discourse and protest), false equivalence (Black Power = fascists, lynching
supremacists), "good" blacks
baptism - Correct answer increasing in the eighteenth century baptism no longer made
a difference to slavery; slavery as divinely ordained institution of inequality which was
"good" for slaves; cosmic status a "main sanctions for support of slavery" [Troeltsch];
Christianization as disciplined into obedience "winning hearts and minds" to non-
resistence; even early Christian abolitionists often slavery qu. separate from the race
qu.
