Feeling Racial Pride in the Mode of Frederick Douglass

Abstract

Drawing on Frederick Douglass's arguments about racial pride, I develop and defend an account of feeling racial pride that centers on resisting racialized oppression. Such pride is racially ecumenical in that it does not imply partiality towards one's own racial group. I argue that it can both accurately represent its intentional object and be intrinsically and extrinsically valuable to experience. It follows, I argue, that there is, under certain conditions, a morally unproblematic, and plausibly valuable, kind of racial pride available to White people, though one that could hardly differ more from what is generally meant by "White pride.

Black Lives Matter protest art: Uncovering explicit and implicit emotions through thematic analysis.

“…These findings resonate with and integrate several functions of protest art. The unequivocal signage offered a collective vision for social change (Milbrandt, 2010) rooted as much in declarations of pride in resistance (Fischer, 2021) as in preserving memory (Santino, 2016). The ability to offer solutions, uphold identity, and mourn may indicate how activism can assuage racial trauma and suffering (Watson-Singleton et al, 2021).…”

“…17). Such exhibits assert identity by marking survival and resilience as well as instilling racial pride rooted in resistance (Fischer, 2021). Protest art, in the moments and days after a critical incident, does not have the luxury of time to develop.…”