My sumptuous padlet by Felicia McDevitt https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b Made with the best of intentions en-us 2021-04-05 14:45:58 UTC 2026-03-17 21:28:41 UTC hello@padlet.com Black is a Country (2004) fmcdevitt99 https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1383392894 Nikhil Singh is a... 
  • Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History
    • race, empire, and culture in 20th-century U.S.; black radicalism and US liberalism; U.S. foreign policy
  • Faculty Director of NYU Prison Education Program 
  • avid tweeter 
Methodology
  • archival; theoretical & spatial... interdisciplinary

]]> 2021-04-05 14:52:46 UTC https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1383392894 “Introduction: Civil Rights, Civic Myths” fmcdevitt99 https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1383513260
  • MLK Jr, antiwar activism & sentiment; linking imperialism, racism, capitalism, and militarism (US's simultaneous role in global inequality)
    • Bridged past and future black radicalism
    • end of life viewed civil rights as an inadequate framework
  • his complex, worldly perspective on violence were & are minimized -- page 4
    • the King-centric account of Civil Rights Era, justice as national
  • civic mythology of racial progress
    • "alleged descent from interracial coalition politics and nonviolent protest to militant separatism and urban conflict" --> public perception of BP
  • lots of historical context 
  • post-civil rights era: color-blind universalism
    • equating race and critical racial theory with prejudice & racism and the insistence on nationhood & nationalism (11) 
    • "this nation-state has been a powerful mechanism for at once instituting racial division and domination and enabling universalistic visions of inclusion and opportunity" (13)
    • ]]>     2021-04-05 15:22:13 UTC https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1383513260     Black is a Country & Autistic Blackness fmcdevitt99 https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1383706275
  • narratives rooted in the failure to recognize historical depth & heterogeneity of Black  agency, sentiment, and minimizing equality and justice to formal, legal realms
  • entanglement with class, and capitalism... historical attacks on gov services aimed at uplifting the social conditions of the 'working poor and unemployed (10) + Black individuals without a degree overrepresented in prison, army, and low-wage, nonunionized economic sectors
    • & housing --> both impacting any ability to secure wealth or mobility
    • perpetuating the racialized trope of the welfare (queen) and bootstrap survival
    • mass incarceration
      • & disability
  • racialized creation of ideal national subject and non-national subjects (21-2)
    • rearticulating race; expansion of 'we'
    • --> legal, medical, political definitions & entanglement with ideology, society, and culture
    • ]]>     2021-04-05 16:07:10 UTC https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1383706275     Thesis fmcdevitt99 https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384216962 2021-04-05 18:09:40 UTC https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384216962 Close Reading (4) fmcdevitt99 https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384229708 2021-04-05 18:12:46 UTC https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384229708 Chp. 1: "Rethinking Race & Nation" fmcdevitt99 https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384235771
  • framed with Justice Clarence Thomas 
    • intro/ex of color blind regimes
  • topics: citizenship (& whiteness), anti-citizenship, and the nationalization of racial regimes
    • understanding American Exceptionalism as a "performative" assertion; civic ideologies that reinforce a nationalistic narrative (19)
    • contribution: consideration of the market & state (the role of the capitalist state in constituting and maintaining racial inequality); American exceptionalism & the 'racial imperial project'
    • state & market converging ~ domestic and transnational as well
  • complexity: proposals to ameliorate racial subordination have been tied to reinforcement/ reproductions of racial & class hierarchies 
    • liberalism's blind spots, white supremacy's pervasiveness in structured market behavior & social movements (27)
  • analysis of the West: hegemony, imperialism + global expansion, and racialized ideologies
  • history of black activists & intellectuals
    • not understanding US legacy in (neo)colonial capitalism prevents us from acknowledging black (transnational) radicalism as "the most consistent and during strand of modern black activism" (53)
  • page 17
    • ]]>     2021-04-05 18:14:18 UTC https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384235771     Sovereignty of Quiet carolinemunn https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384342064
  • Author: Kevin E. Quashie 
  • Published in 2012
  • Professor of English at Brown University 
    • black and literary studies in the English department 
  • His studies are now organized by the phrase "a book of black ideas"
  • Methodology: 
    • archival, theoretical approach 


    • ]]>     2021-04-05 18:42:30 UTC https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384342064     Sovereignty of Quiet & Autistic Blackness carolinemunn https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384360269
    • double consciousness 
      • wearing a mask 
      • having two conflicting identities 
      • I am who you think I am. 
        • seen through the eyes of the  dominant extrovert society 
      • "What does the fade, however, is the sense of being shaped by race and racialization ..." 
        • either accept or defy the prognosis of the white culture 
        • DuBois depicts a subject who is haunted and animated by doubleness  (13)
          • ~ doubleness- similar to "masking"
      • a black person is "born with a veil" and is gifted with second sight (14) 
        • veil ~ "mask" 
        • second sight ~ to a person with IDD's stereotypical special talent or gift 
    ]]>     2021-04-05 18:47:46 UTC https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384360269     Sovereignty of Quiet Key Issues carolinemunn https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384364396
  • black resistance 
  • how black culture has been characterized largely by its responses to racial dominance- and how resistance is becoming a dominant feature and expectation (11)
  • quiet is compelling 
    • describes the difference between quiet and silence 
    • Quiet is a metaphor for inner life, and as such, enables a more nuanced understanding of black culture.
      • quiet= inner being 
  • "double consciousness" 
    • W.E.B Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk
    • split identity-impact that oppression has on the black subject who sees himself through interactions with other people
    • Interview with Quashie

    ]]>     2021-04-05 18:48:57 UTC https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384364396     Name of Secondary- Introduction: Why Quiet carolinemunn https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384367425
  • begins with the story of a moment at the 1968 Olympics at the medal ceremony for the 200-meter race 
  • emblematic gesture 
  • both black men punctuate the space above their heads with black-gloved fists (see photo)
    • Smith- right hand in black gloves
    • Carlos- left hand in black gloves
  • salute to black power that protests racism and poverty and counters the anthem and its embracing of nationalism 
    • intimacy v. public moment  (3)
    • the sublime balance between their intentional political gesture and the sense of inwardness, and the idea that it is often barely acknowledged (3)
    • ]]>     2021-04-05 18:49:48 UTC https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384367425     Sovereignty of Quiet - Chapter 1: Publicness, Silence, and Sovereignty of the Interior carolinemunn https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384368859
  • the image of Tommie Smith and John Carlos 
    • the author describes that what limits our capacity to see fuller humanity is a concept of blackness that that is seen through public expressiveness and resistance
  • interruptions of the central idioms of black culture 
    • doubleness 
    • signifying 
    • dissemblance 
    • double consciousnesses 
    • masking 
      • assuming that black expressiveness is exclusively public 
    • "They are resistant in context, not in essence" (24)
      • bodies standing 
    • "In humanity, quiet is our dignity" (26) 
    • "It is this exploration, this reach toward the inner life, than an aesthetic of quiet makes possible; and it is this that is the path to a sweet freedom: a black expressiveness without publicness as its forebearer, a black subject in this undisputed dignity of its humanity" (26) 

    • ]]>     2021-04-05 18:50:14 UTC https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384368859     Sovereignty of Quiet Thesis carolinemunn https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384370473 "...explores what a concept of quiet could mean to how we think about black culture" (3)]]> 2021-04-05 18:50:44 UTC https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384370473 Sovereignty of Quiet Close Reading carolinemunn https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384388279            "We Wear the Mask"  by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1895)
    • reaction to the experience of being black in America in the late 19th century, following the Civil War—a period when life seemed to have improved for black Americans 
      • yet in reality was still marked by intense racism and hardship. 
    • Dunbar compares surviving the pain of oppression to "wearing a mask" that hides the suffering of its wearer while presenting a more joyful face to the world. 
    • does not specifically mention race; 
      •  message is applicable to any circumstance in which marginalized people are forced to present a brave face in order to survive in an unsympathetic, prejudiced society.
    ]]>     2021-04-05 18:56:00 UTC https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384388279     Comparative Visual Analysis carolinemunn https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384399265 Below is a well-known picture of Tommie Smith (1st place) and John Carlos (2nd place) holding up their black-gloved fists in solidarity for the black power movement.  To the left of Tommie Smith is an Australian, Peter Norman who wore an OPHR (Olympic Project for Human Rights) badge in support of Smith and Carlos. In addition to the salute, Smith wore a black scarf to represent black pride and both Carlos and Smith wore black socks to represent black poverty. 

    Carlos unzipped his tracksuit to show solidarity with blue-collar workers in the U.S., as well as a necklace of beads that he described "were for those individuals that were lynched, or killed and that no-one said a prayer for, that were hung and tarred". 
    This movement is extremely important because the salute was both on a public stage where millions were watching but also simultaneously an intimate moment. 

    This moment and hand salute is similar to the Shy Radicals hand gesture that is seen on the left below. This hand gesture has a historical legacy and Shy Radicals are using hand gestures as a new language as political communication evolved 

    Historically and contemporarily the closed fist hand gesture has been used as a form of resistance and specifically black resistance in the U.S. 
    ]]>     2021-04-05 18:59:14 UTC https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384399265     Shy Radicals (2017) fmcdevitt99 https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384830219 Hamja Ahsan is a...
    • activist, writer, and artist
    • "is a campaigner for prisoners, human rights and civil liberties under the War on Terror"

    social/political agenda
    • imaginative speculative fiction, manifesto, polemic, satire 
    • liberation & resistance
    • organized political demands to imperial domination
    • critique of the dominant culture (referred to as Extrovert Supremacy) and Islamophobia
    ]]>     2021-04-05 21:42:20 UTC https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384830219     Trailer fmcdevitt99 https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384871138 June 2021]]> 2021-04-05 22:05:42 UTC https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384871138 Draft Constitution of the Shy Peoples Republic of Aspergistan carolinemunn https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384874908 Context
    • International Shyria (Sharia) law

    Intro: "We, the People of Aspergistan" = Shy, Introverted, and Autistic Spectrum peoples
    • against the hegemony of the Extrovert World Order
    • "successive generations...have suffered rejection, bullying, humiliation, belittlement, pathologisation, persecution, subjugation, exploitation, erasure, exclusion, alienation, discrimination and disadvantage" (14)
    • emphasis on silence, reflection, investigative depth, etc

    Chp 1: Fundamental Politics
    • "revolutionary vanguard state [against] anti-systemic Introvert ideology," diplomatic & emotional support, international cooperation, anti-hierarchal, "Extrovert Supremacist," civic privilege to the unheard
     Chp 2: The Structure of the State
    • no declarations on a stage, "peer-reviewed," the importance of independent research, no alerts by means of noise, "the right of silence" 
    Chp 3: Fundamental Rights and Duties of Citizens
    • freedom from harassment, judgment, stigmatization, Extrovert epistemic violence, media assaults; no coerced attendance special protection to younger people; banned usage of "Extrovert-normative teen categories;" state support for healing
      • trauma from "Extrovert-Supremacist states, Introvert Hate groups, and Trendy Club"
    Chp 4: National Flag, National Anthem, Cultural Symbol, and Capital City
    • emancipation from nationalistic, militaristic displays, loud celebrations (street parties & firework displays), and sanitized history; simple, respectful, and quiet iconography; ocean national anthem; boycotting of anti-autism-friendly environments; nature references
    • the capital city of scholars and seminarians
    Chp 5: Culture
    • "private views", solitary dwellings (caves, forests, mountains, rivers, and woods), nature of the dark as a journey into the soul, a time of rest and exploration, "Abolition of the Trendy Club- as the colonizer, "Eastern", safeguarding of empty space, measuring noise levels in accordance with Shyria Law, WorldWide and United Nations, ensuring the clearest possible view of the constellations", biodiversity of flora and fauna, recognizing the historical domestic genocidal agenda, "cull"- group  not entertainment 
    Chp 6: National Defence
    • national armed forces and all national defense personnel, 'Do Not Disturb', compulsive consumerism, headline, systemic mass ignorance, counter Extrovert imperialism and expansionism, abolition of bravado and machismo (hypermasculinity), recognizing the complicity of military machismo with the formation of introvert hate crime, deployment of guerilla and underground tactics, "cyber"
    Chp 7: Economy & Labour Rights
    • Shyria-compliant economy, right to seize and control private, Extrovert Supremacist property; impossibility of economic justice in a 'celebrity-centric' system; no advertising; employment centers; state benefits for independent researchers; anti-excessive consumerism; accessible architecture & planning
    Chp 8: Right of Asylum, Exit, and Entry
    • foreigners only have access only if abiding by Shyria Law, but guaranteed entry/asylum if seeking escape from the assault of mass distraction or political persecution
    ]]>     2021-04-05 22:08:00 UTC https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384874908     Other Cultural Productions fmcdevitt99 https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384879078 "Creep" by Arlo Parks (Radiohead cover)
    • “‘Creep’ is a simultaneously delicate and brutal exploration of inner turmoil and human relationships. This song has acted as a refuge for me, during times of self-reflection and low mood, for many years and Radiohead as a band has deeply influenced my music.”
    - NME article
    • Radiohead mention in text --> 141
    ]]>     2021-04-05 22:10:43 UTC https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384879078     Preface: Key Concepts / Terms carolinemunn https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384913188
  • "loud elite" + "Loud World"
    • loudism as a metaphor for racism/ableism/oppression
      • loudism as something that must be "uncovered"
    • the Loud World as 'killing' 'domineering' and 'colonizing' -- pressuring the "Quiet World" (Shy, Introvert, Autistic spectrum peoples) to conform to the dominant culture/society
  • importance of revelation, quiet, patience, and reflection 
    • ]]>     2021-04-05 22:31:52 UTC https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1384913188     Caroline: pages 33-78 carolinemunn https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1385517524 #OCCUPYBEDROOM
    key themes: comparison of introverts as a disease- reporting in Italy and South Korea,

    NEW LEXICON OF DEMOCRACY 
    • the language of political communication is evolving 
      • new democratic language 
        • thorough hand and body gestures 
    PUBLIC STATEMENT: SHY RADICALS IS NOT A TERRORIST ORGANISATION 
    • terrorism is always loud 
      • terrorism- needs to be distinguished because it is a very noisy - sound and visually 
        • by dominant society- looking for attention 
          • terrorism and extrovert-supremacism on the same page 
    • "We engage in underground autonomous activities. Shy Radicals harnesses the SHY RADICALS
      power of quiet.  The American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil rights activist, Audre Lorde said ‘silence will not protect you. And she was wrong. Our guerrilla resistance and defence strategy are guided by the
      philosophy of  the poet Abu adh-Dhiyal who teaches us: 
      • ‘Learn to be quiet just as you learn to talk, because if talking guides you, being quiet protects you. By being quiet, you attain two characteristics: you are able to take knowledge from those more knowledgeable than you, and you are able
        to repel the ignorance of those more ignorant than you.’" 
    Chapter 6: BUILDING THE SHY RADICAL STUDENT MOVEMENT
    • Reports from the Introvert Rights Association Domestic Crisis 
      Centre
    • "The failure of ‘diversity' initiatives offered the
      labels of intersectionality: Women’s officer, Black officer, and LGBT
      officers at the National Union of Students level are self-evident" (70)
      • they misrepresent them 
        • , as they are dominated in all cases by
          their leadership structure and are elected in such ways that mean
          the odds are stacked against Shy candidates.
      • working to get  shyness included as a disability 
      • mistaking Aspergistan as a Muslim organization 
        • have shyness be acknowledged 
    • introvert. hate crime- rejection, alienation 
    ]]>     2021-04-06 03:28:43 UTC https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1385517524     Felicia: pages 80-143 carolinemunn https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1385519070 Shy Radicals Film Season
    • audience/contributors: international 
      • reaching community (public): unis, local trade union branches, churches, mosques, and local libraries
      • accessibility: quiet intensity, multiple mediums
      • global analysis: cultural + religious references, across time; ethnoreligious divisions and delegations
        • weaving in pop culture references: Clueless, Mean Girls, Gangnam Style, lifestyle mags, international architectural/artistic icons
      • highlighting repressed, remote, overlooked artists  
    • key themes: 
      • educational approach; consciousness-raising efforts; resistance to dominant narrative + representation; liberation/celebration; (settler) colonialism; expression/literacy; global resistance movements; slavery
    • Two films to highlight 
      • "Heathers" - ableism, patriarchy, masculinity, militancy; review critiques binary view of 'moderate' Introvert vs. 'psycho'
      • "Pan-Africanist Breakaway Delegations" (117) - global solidarity & BP
      • "The 90s: The Seattle Introfada" (140) - finding sanctuary in "the plight of the Sensitive White man" though poetry, art, & music (lo-fi/indie, garage rock)... "styles of depressives"
        • masculinity, mental health, & suicide

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    • all 'black' things are associated with all things evil and undesirable, as a symptom of White-Supremacist society" (146)
      • "Black as evil. Black as doom. Black as
        negative." 
    • "What is ‘miserabilism in their world is an act of dissent for
      our peoples, living under a system that negates us." (148) 
    • "As A. Sivanandan says, ‘black is a political colour, not the colour
      of your skin... the colour of oppression today is black'." (149) 
    • "We
      call this union Black-Black Power" (150)
      • union of the modes of Blackness as a gloomy mood and depressive slumber and that of the resistance of the former  slave (Vanguard Melancholia)

    ]]>     2021-04-06 17:02:47 UTC https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1388168473     Connections to Class carolinemunn https://padlet.com/fmcdevitt99/7akv9letf8gxu99b/wish/1388438864
  • race and disability and their intersection are not fully articulated  
    • race is alluded to through terminology and verbs (Supremacist, Hate, loudism, colonize, etc) & is mentioned in the film section
    • autism: Constitution, film festival (autistic creators) 
      • Introvert and Shy are used as synonyms
  • effect on the reader + challenges
    • accessibility concerns (both terminology & global history)
    • anti-colonial theory
    • very conceptual

    1. connection to other texts
      1. WE ARE WITNESSING A NEW ERA OF REVOLT ... #OCCUPYBEDROOM
        • According to the Japanese government- Shy Radicals= a social problem 
          • for their families- Shy Radicals are parasites and a cause for concern 
          • an entire industry was brought to'"cure them'
            • connection: Sovereignty of the Quiet: Du Bois: How it feels to be a problem 
      2. Connections to "Black is a Country" - FMM 
        • global analysis and approach
          • however, Black is a Country - re-historicizes sanitized versions of Black intellectual thought; 20-cent. 'radical' activists  --> global perspective is central to this history & thought
        • revolutionary/re-imaginative
          • both build on radical/post-colonial thought, but Shy Radicals blurs the boundaries of reality + imagination
        • both touch on concepts of citizenship, nationhood, and the subject-citizen 
          • however, their analysis and reliance on legal acceptance is different (this is a result of their style)

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