https://padlet.com/breannaamankwah/h2r0h6wz4gmb0r8x Made with ♥ en-us 2021-08-31 23:28:32 UTC 2026-03-08 17:35:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f48c.png breannaamankwah https://padlet.com/breannaamankwah/h2r0h6wz4gmb0r8x/wish/1711036485 No, the majority of brand activism is not sincere. Brands usually would do anything to have an increase in sales so they try to cater to marginalized groups during social events. When said event is over the brands always go back to their racist/homophobic/misogynistic/anti-[ ]/etc ways. For example, a luxury brand like Prada showed solidarity during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests but they recently removed one of their items from a Nyc store that was displaying blackface. This proves that despite these brands showing their support they still continue to design and manufacture items that perpetuate anti-blackness. ]]> 2021-09-01 23:38:06 UTC https://padlet.com/breannaamankwah/h2r0h6wz4gmb0r8x/wish/1711036485 breannaamankwah https://padlet.com/breannaamankwah/h2r0h6wz4gmb0r8x/wish/1731013361 1.) Collective Effervescence applies to the 2011 Wisconsin protests because all the people who participated felt a intense feeling that allowed everyone to come together for  cause that they support. 
2.) The case of the Wisconsin protests says that the role of solidarity, collective conscience, and collective effervescence in acts of protest is to inspire and round people together to that they can feel a sense of importance and hope that they can bring a change to something that would benefit everybody in a democracy
3.) Durkheim's concepts of sacred and profane applies to this statement because it's showing how profane people (regular people in society) can some together in a sacred demonstration (act of protest) to fight for what they believe in.]]> 2021-09-10 14:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/breannaamankwah/h2r0h6wz4gmb0r8x/wish/1731013361 breannaamankwah https://padlet.com/breannaamankwah/h2r0h6wz4gmb0r8x/wish/1760998866 Dubois's work on race and capitalism is relevant to analyzing gentrification process in Harlem because it describes how people of a higher class, white people), are invading lower class/ low income communities and driving away the residents for their own benefit. Duboi's work talks about how capitalism has created social stratification and a class system that divides people into groups based on race and economic status and thus class consciousness is achieved because lower class realizes the struggle they have to go through. His work is relevant because white people are the bourgeosie while Black and POC people are the proletariat and now their homes are being taken because of capitalism only benefiting the upper class/ White people. ]]> 2021-09-22 19:19:50 UTC https://padlet.com/breannaamankwah/h2r0h6wz4gmb0r8x/wish/1760998866 breannaamankwah https://padlet.com/breannaamankwah/h2r0h6wz4gmb0r8x/wish/1761012075 We The People by A Tribe Called Quest is a song that talks about focuses on the concept of social stratification and social inequality because it talks about different minority groups and how they're treated by people in power and society. The song starts with“We don't believe you 'cause we the people Are still here in the rear, ayo, we don't need you, You in the killing-off-good-young-n*gga mood When we get hungry we eat the same f*cking food. The ramen noodle” This shows how the song focuses on social stratification because it talks about the police, who are higher in the social hierarchy are in the mood to kill off Black people, who are at the bottom of the hierarchy. Also, the economic divide between classes causes Black people to eat struggle foods because they can't afford healthy, filling food.  ]]> 2021-09-22 19:26:49 UTC https://padlet.com/breannaamankwah/h2r0h6wz4gmb0r8x/wish/1761012075 breannaamankwah https://padlet.com/breannaamankwah/h2r0h6wz4gmb0r8x/wish/1793489735 Neoliberalism in postcolonial societies links to colonialism by using countries that have been colonized by europeans for their own economic gain. Neoliberalism is the belief in sustained economic growth as the means to achieve human progress, its confidence in free markets as the most efficient allocation of resources, its emphasis on minimal state intervention in economic and social affairs, and its commitment to freedom of trade and capital. Neoliberalism links postcolonialism to colonialism because according to Postcolonial theory African countries are still affected by colonization which allows them to make the same mistakes over but with different nations. For example, "but also new actors such as China, continue to exert influence. This, as some scholars have claimed, has taken a more subtle form, ‘subtle imperialism’, where Western powers as well as new ones such as China exercise power over different economies on the African continent without any military force." (Fasakin, 2021) This shows that powers like China are using African countries like Nigeria as free markets and basically colonizing them again but they aren't as obvious.           

]]> 2021-10-05 15:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/breannaamankwah/h2r0h6wz4gmb0r8x/wish/1793489735 breannaamankwah https://padlet.com/breannaamankwah/h2r0h6wz4gmb0r8x/wish/1814356670 1. How did structural violence lay the foundation for the Egyptian
revolution? 
It laid the foundation by creating inescapable poverty. Most of the areas are slums and the people living there have to hustle to make a living.
 
2. How does the concept of class consciousness apply to the case of the
Egyptian revolution? 
It applies to the Egyptian revolution because the people rebelling (the majority) were a part of the lower class so they knew their place in the hierarchy and they used that to stand in solidarity together. 

3. Identify two state apparatuses that were utilized in response to
protests. 
The police/ army
 The media

4. What functions did such apparatuses serve?
They served to censor and spread misinformation and to control and power on the Egyptians.  ]]> 2021-10-13 15:33:37 UTC https://padlet.com/breannaamankwah/h2r0h6wz4gmb0r8x/wish/1814356670 breannaamankwah https://padlet.com/breannaamankwah/h2r0h6wz4gmb0r8x/wish/1817544570 A protest or revolution that led to state response through an ideological state apparatus is the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. A state apparatus is when institutions are utilized by the state to perpetuate the state's ideologies and counteract the people's beliefs. An example is when during the Black Lives Matter Protests the state used the police to use physical violence against protesters to maintain their beliefs and used the media to create a positive narrative about themselves. The state apparatus was used by using institutions to intimidate people to follow what the state believes in.  This shows that the state used a repressive state apparatus to enforce their beliefs on society. ]]> 2021-10-14 15:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/breannaamankwah/h2r0h6wz4gmb0r8x/wish/1817544570 breannaamankwah https://padlet.com/breannaamankwah/h2r0h6wz4gmb0r8x/wish/1848488135 How does Angela frame the purpose of violence in her presented examples of Black resistance?

Angela Davis frames the purpose of violence by providing examples of violence that she's witnessed in her communities. for example, she talks about how she's memorized the sound of bombs because they were planted by racists, she also talks about the Birmingham church bombing to further explain how all that Black people have had to endure were acts of violence. She also mentions how the way that society is structured, violence is expected because that's that Blackness is combated with.

What main contrast exists between MLK’s and
Malcolm X’s approach to social change in the frame of
the Civil Rights Movement?

The main contrast between Malcolm X and MLK's approach to social change is that MLK focused on non-violence and peace while Malcolm x believed that we needed to do anything by any means necessary. MLK believed that violence would continue in an endless cycle. During slavery, until now there was never a time where white people were nonviolent toward Black people. So Malcolm x believed that violence needed to be reciprocated he didn't believe that violence should be necessarily used. Which is why he adopted that Black people should go by any means necessary to be treated as human beings. So they contrasted in beliefs because nonviolence wasn't bringing immediate change and Malcolm x believed that Black people needed to speak the same language racists were speaking. 

Do you agree with Fanon’s call for us to divide violence of
the oppressor from violence of the oppressed?

White violence vs Black "violence" isn't the same because white people were committing hate crimes for sport while Black people were fighting against what the white people were doing. Black violence was self-defense because white people were committing acts of violence out of hate. I agree with Fanon because the violence that was used during protests and revolutions was all in solidarity with black people. ]]> 2021-10-27 14:48:53 UTC https://padlet.com/breannaamankwah/h2r0h6wz4gmb0r8x/wish/1848488135 breannaamankwah https://padlet.com/breannaamankwah/h2r0h6wz4gmb0r8x/wish/1986425300 2022-01-11 16:18:44 UTC https://padlet.com/breannaamankwah/h2r0h6wz4gmb0r8x/wish/1986425300