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Jamila Woods' Sonic Remediations on Black Life in the United States 

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Jamila Woods' Sonic Remediations on Black Life in the United States 

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Connection to Black Feminist Urban Ethnography (3)

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Connection to Black Feminist Urban Ethnography (3)

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The work of scholars like Nicki Jones reveals that empowerment is a tool that Black girls use to transform distributions of power to fulfill their self-determined needs and desires.

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Connection to Black Feminist Urban Ethnography (2)

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Connection to Black Feminist Urban Ethnography (2)

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Nicki Jones' work Between Good and Ghetto highlights how controlling images are marked onto the bodies of young Black girls growing up in low-income neighborhoods. Jones finds that opportunities and spaces for self-making provide space for Blacks girls to disrupt external projections and desires and develop an internally derived sense of self. Jamila describes this process of revolutionary self-development in BETTY through the initial rejection of controlling images.

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Freedom and triumph, they weren't meant for me
Girls of my color, find somethin' else to be

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"Subordinate groups have long had to use alternative ways to create independent self-definitions and self-valuations and to rearticulate them through our own specialists. Like other subordinate groups, African-American women not only have developed a distinctive Black women's standpoint, but have done so using alternative ways of producing and validating knowledge." (252, Black Feminist Thought)

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"Black Feminists often talk about their feelings of craziness before becoming conscious of the concepts of sexual politics, patriarchal rule and most importantly feminism and political analysis and practice that we women use to struggle against our oppression."

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Connection to Afterlife of Slavery Scholarship (1) (& Legacy Connection extra credit)

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Connection to Afterlife of Slavery Scholarship (1) (& Legacy Connection extra credit)

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The "bottom" refers to the fictional city from Toni Morrison's Sula that symbolizes the structural positioning of Black people outside of American society. Morrison's fictive town embodies the peculiar institution of the Ghetto that Wacquant describes. In his text From Slavery to Mass Incarceration, he describes the "deep kinship between the ghetto and the prison" which appears in high surveillance and policing of Black neighborhoods, hyper criminalization of Black children and adults, and mass incarceration of Black people.

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Sera Smith, AFRICAM5B

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Connection to Afterlife of Slavery Scholarship (2) 

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Connection to Afterlife of Slavery Scholarship (2) 

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Chattel slavery required reproduction of more slaves in order to sustain the institution. Black women's bodies became resources for white male masters to maintain the system of slavery and project their desires. In the afterlife of slavery, Black women still battle controlling images projected onto us. Jamila's rejection of those desires and projections is a revolutionary act that challenges expectations of her while also reconnecting with the erotic.

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Black Feminists such as Patricia Hill Collins criticize the concept of objectivity. She argues that lived experiences will always impact how one perceives, evaluates and understands a situation. Therefore, experts are not detached from bias and cannot never be completely objective.

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Patricia Hill Collins explores how Black women have historically perceived as sexually deviant. Predominately White male perceptions shape images of Black women's bodies that impact how we see and experience ourselves. These images seek to control Black women, but Jamila points to self-determination as resistance to externally-derived controlling images.  She refuses the image, throwing "away that picture" and working to take "the time to know" that the only person in control is herself, and that she is "different" from the images projected onto her body.

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<---- This enumeration of anti-Black genocide is from the Quiz 1 results.

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1. Mass incarceration

2. Police brutality

3.  High infant mortality

4. Discriminatory medical facilities and treatment

5. Lack of adequate educational systems

6. Few economic opportunities

7. Control of black reproductive rights, fertility and sterilization

8. Hypersegregation of black neighborhoods,

9. Poverty

10. Everyday violence in the inner-city

11. Chronic depression

12. Self-hatred

13. And more

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In his text, Never Meant to Survive (2010), Joao Costa Vargas' connects the oppression that Black people experience to the United Nation's categorization of genocide. Anti-Black genocide is a structural antagonism that systematically constricts and degrades Black life.  Woods refers to anti-Black genocide through the example of police killings of Black children. She sings to the tune of the nursery rhyme "Mary Mack" to highlight the loss of youth that Black children surviving in hood environments experience.

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Connection to Black Feminist Urban Ethnography (1)

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Connection to Black Feminist Urban Ethnography (1)

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While conducting research in the San Francisco Unified School District, Savannah Shange encountered young Black girls who routinely chose silence rather than give details about her life for the academy to use. Shange then used the research method of ethnographic refusal in which she deliberately left out certain facts and information about her subjects. This method relies on opacity as a site of knowledge production. In other words, ethnographic refusal protects the identity and personal information of Shange's subjects who will likely not see any material benefits from the research she is conducting.

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Black is like the magic, and magic's like a spell
My brothers went to heaven, the police going to
... yeah, they're going to, hello operator, emergency hotline
If I say that I can't breathe, will I become a chalk line
Line up to see the movie, line up to see the act
The officers are scheming to cover up their
Cover up their...ask me no more questions, tell me no more lies
Your serving and protecting is stealing babies lives

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You will never know everything, everything
I will never know everything, everything
You will never know everything, everything
And you don't know me so you up the creek
You will never know everything, everything
I will never know everything, everything
You will never know everything, everything
And you don't know me, couldn't possibly

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I am not your typical girl
Throw away that picture in your head
I am not your typical girl
Work harder now, work harder
Running from myself, I come undone
I wait, I try
Falling for myself
It's taken time to know I'm mine
Oh, I am different, I am different
I am, I am

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Jamila Woods produced the album Legacy! Legacy! that studied Black creators that came before her including: Betty Davis, Sonia Sanchez, Octavia Bulter, and Zora Neale Hurston.

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Up here in the bottom, you linger over me
I got all this space to fill
Somethin' only bodies heal

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I'm better, I'm better, I'm better
I'm better, I'm better, I'm better
I'm better, I'm better, I'm better

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Down here in the bottom, there ain't no room for me
I don't wanna make no babies
I don't need a man to save me

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It is our duty to fight for our freedom
(It is our duty to fight for our freedom)
It is our duty to win
(It is our duty to win)
We must love each other and support each other
(We must love each other and support each other)
We have nothing to lose but our chains
(We have nothing to lose but our chains)