Half the Story: The uses of History in Jamaican political Discourse

Waters, Anita M.

doi:10.1080/00086495.1999.11829604

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“…Marronage as a form of oppositional blackness began with the resistance of Africans who refused enslavement by fleeing captivity upon their arrival to the New World (Gottlieb, ; Sharpe, ; Sayers, ; Thompson, ; Waters, ). Although its dynamics vary by geographic location and historical context, oppositional blackness is both transferable and mutable across time and space.…”

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“…The use of decentralized communities with shared collective identities eased their mobilization. For instance, the Maroons made use of an instrument made from a cow horn known as an abeng to send messages (Fellows & Delle, ; Gottlieb, ; Sharpe, ; Waters, ). The sound traveled for miles, allowing Maroons to communicate across settlements distances apart, often as a warning about the campaigns of European military.…”

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The sociology of antiracism in Black and White

Brown

2017

Sociology Compass

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This paper reviews sociological research on antiracism and suggests new directions for the field. Current research indicates although White antiracism constitutes attempts to negotiate privilege, it fails to divest from the systems of power that maintain the current balance of privilege in favor of White supremacy. In contrast, the antiracism of people of color provides some insight into attempts to secure liberation, a complete break from White supremacist power structures. I argue DuBois, Black Feminist Thought, and postcolonial sociology inform a sociology of antiracism that centers people of color rather than Whiteness. To illustrate the nuance of antiracism by people of color, I centered my study on Black antiracism. From this perspective, antiracism emerges as the set of practices that Blacks enact in everyday life to mitigate and confront hegemonic racialization. I suggest that one construct of hegemonic whiteness meant to uphold dominant racial ideology that produces emphasized blackness that facilitates symbolic and physical violence toward Blacks. Although emphasized blackness produces and reinforces constraints on Black antiracism, oppositional blackness exemplifies an ultimate form of antiracism in which Black bodies act as agents of social change through liberatory projects such as marronage and counterhegemonic knowledge production. I conclude this article with a case study of the Windward Maroons of Jamaica to illustrate oppositional blackness as the dynamics of resistance and empowerment that emerge to confront hegemonic whiteness.

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confidence: 99%