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The map–territory relation describes the relationship between an object and a representation of that object, as in the relation between a geographical territory and a map of it.
Map–territory relationAt the time, I did not yet know of Kimberle Crenshaw’s brilliant term “intersectionality,” or Claudia Rankine’s vital concept “racial imaginary” — complementary and significant theories for understanding present day lives, but as a young woman, through hooks’s work, I was just beginning to see that everyone needs theory, and we need it like water.
In Praise of bell hooks - The New York TimesWomen and men of Asian ethnicities are so often neglected, excluded and marginalized in the Western academy, so as a college student I’d no doubt internalized my alleged insignificance. bell hooks changed my limited perception.
In Praise of bell hooks - The New York Timeshooks asserts that one cannot separate race from gender, history and class when considering a person’s freedom.
In Praise of bell hooks - The New York TimesJames Weldon Johnson, the famous black writer, labeled 1919 as "The Red Summer." It was red from racial tension; it was red from bloodletting.
What was Jim Crow - Jim Crow Museum - Ferris State UniversityViolence was instrumental for Jim Crow. It was a method of social control. The most extreme forms of Jim Crow violence were lynchings.
What was Jim Crow - Jim Crow Museum - Ferris State UniversityJim Crow laws touched every aspect of everyday life. For example, in 1935, Oklahoma prohibited blacks and whites from boating together. Boating implied social equality.
What was Jim Crow - Jim Crow Museum - Ferris State UniversityIn practice, Plessy represented the legitimization of two societies: one white, and advantaged; the other, black, disadvantaged and despised.
What was Jim Crow - Jim Crow Museum - Ferris State UniversityIn 1890, Louisiana passed the "Separate Car Law," which purported to aid passenger comfort by creating "equal but separate" cars for blacks and whites. This was a ruse. No public accommodations, including railway travel, provided blacks with equal facilities.
What was Jim Crow - Jim Crow Museum - Ferris State UniversityBlacks were not allowed to show public affection toward one another in public, especially kissing, because it offended whites.
What was Jim Crow - Jim Crow Museum - Ferris State Universitysexual relations between blacks and whites would produce a mongrel race which would destroy America; treating blacks as equals would encourage interracial sexual unions; any activity which suggested social equality encouraged interracial sexual relations; if necessary, violence must be used to keep blacks at the bottom of the racial hierarchy.
What was Jim Crow - Jim Crow Museum - Ferris State UniversityJim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-black laws. It was a way of life.
What was Jim Crow - Jim Crow Museum - Ferris State UniversityPro-segregation politicians gave eloquent speeches on the great danger of integration: the mongrelization of the white race.
What was Jim Crow - Jim Crow Museum - Ferris State University