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QF2-01 HUM 101 Activism Readers HUM 101 Activism LIBRARY INFORMATION AND SCIENCES INFORMATION LIBRARY COLLEGE OF TABLE OF CONTENTS Assignment Prompt 3 Decolonizing Our History 4 Article Responses 8 Hollywood and the Whitewashing of History 9 Article Responses 13 Here’s How New Texas Public School Textbooks Write About Slavery 14 Article Responses 21 How Texas Teaches History 22 Article Responses 25 ACTIVISM ••• LIBRARY INFORMATION AND SCIENCES ASSIGNMENT PROMPT: PROJECT #RepresentationMatters PSA Meme Campaign DUE DATE TO DO For over 150 years, African Americans have been excluded by historians from the records of American achievement and innovation. As Hidden Figures taught us, this does not mean that Black men and women have not made signifcant contributions to areas such as science, technology, sports, art, politics, music, and more in American life, including contributions to felds to which they have been historically denied access. Te truth is, Black people have done far more than they’ve been given credit for by history. As a result of this white washing of history, opportunities for advancement, inspiration, and innovation have been denied for many generations of Black Americans and lost for the entire country. From history, to Hollywood, to science and sports, the names and faces we collectively associate with relevance, power and success determine our aspirations and possibilities. In short, representation matters! PART 1: Meme PART 2: Script for Presentation in 4 paragraphs and a statement For this assignment, you will work in a group to create a Public Service Announcement (PSA) Be sure to discuss how today’s most pressing in the form of an Internet meme prepared to go topics relate to our unit and use current events viral, under the hashtag #RepresentationMatters, to bolster your evidence, support, and analysis. publicizing the signifcance and achievements 1. Short biographical information of one African American “hidden fgure” whose contributions have been minimized by those 2. What did your hidden fgure do? people in power who write history. 3. What aspects of colonization do you see manifested in the exclusion of this fgure from Choose an image of your “hidden fgure” and history books? create a catchy slogan that explains who they were and what the impact of their anonymity has 4. What are the negative impacts of keeping been. Use several diferent social media formats them hidden? such as Instagram stories, square posts, and Facebook. You can use a free app like Canva to Presentation Guidelines: make a professional-looking social media post. 1. Use Google Slides or PowerPoint to create your presentation. For example: Can little Black girls grow up to be mathematicians? Just ask Mary Jackson: Wife. 2. Each member of group will be responsible Mother of three. Engineer for NASA, sending for their own slides. our astronauts to space. 3. Each member of group must speak on presentation day. #RepresentationMatters. 4. Professional attire and attitude expected on presentation day. 3 HUM 101 Decolonizing Our History By M. Campbell Yahn Decolonizing Our History presents a history and slaughters, the legacy and violence of of the United States that is interconnected, invasions, enslavements, occupations, and wide-ranging, holistic, evolving, and radical. systematic abductions. Tat disingenuously Above all, it is a decolonized history. innocent defnition is the privilege enjoyed by the colonizer. What does it mean to “decolonize” history? To colonize means to take over, to invade So Rehman and Hernández wrote their and conquer, to impose and establish the own defnition, based on their realities as culture, the values, the social, political women of color, as members of communities and economic systems of the conquering and nations which had been and still are colonizer by eradicating the civilizations of on the colonized side of uninvited created those conquered and colonized. settlements. “To colonize,” they wrote, is “to strip a people of their culture, language, land, Te United States originated with the family structure, who they are as a person invasion and conquest by the Europeans and as a people.”2 over 500 years ago. But the civilizations of our continent were not the only or even COLONIZING HEARTS AND MINDS the frst to be conquered by the Europeans. Over the centuries, the Europeans have To colonize is also to spread rapidly, as in a conquered and colonized all the civilizations cancer cell. A cancer cell doesn’t just create and people of the Global South, and have a settlement, it reproduces quickly, lethally, established a division of humanity that has crowding out and killing of the healthy been both geographic and racial. It has cells. It turns a healthy organ into a mass of also been gendered because the very frst infected, cancerous cells so that even once- conquering and colonizing began before the healthy cells now spread the DNA messages Europeans, perhaps as long as 10,000 years of lethal cancer. ago, when patriarchy conquered, occupied and colonized collectivist matrisocial Tis is how colonization of the mind works, civilizations. how messages of inferiority are internalized and belief in the superiority of the colonizer TO DEFINE A WORD IS TO is implanted, continuously reinforcing an DEFINE YOURSELF “other,” lesser, inferior, subordinate, even subhuman status of the colonized. Te When the two writers Bushra Rehman and process of colonizing the mind, of teaching Daisy Hernández began editing their book inferiority, may be based on gender, on of essays, Colonize Tis!, they looked up race, on physical “ability”; on any number the defnition of “colonize” and found that it of human attributes, but the results are the meant “to create a settlement.” It sounded “so same: a human being who has been robbed simple and peaceful,” they wrote.1 of his or her dignity and full potential, who has been fractured in order to maintain a For the colonizer, it is so much simpler. system of privilege for an elite few. Race- For the colonizer, that bland, innocuous based colonization of the mind is not a defnition glibly disappears the host of sins new concept, though the terminology has 4 ACTIVISM ••• LIBRARY INFORMATION AND SCIENCES changed, along with a progressively deeper Africa as a continent has been a victim of understanding of its impact and scope, and forces of colonial exploitation, oppression of methods for reclamation. and human degradation. In the feld of culture she was taught to look on Europe In 1892, feminist abolitionist Anna Julia as her teacher and the centre of man’s Cooper wrote about the legacy of African civilization, and herself as the pupil.… American “manhood and womanhood Western culture became the centre of Africa’s impoverished and debased by two centuries process of learning, and Africa was relegated and more of compression and degradation” 3 to the background. Africa uncritically as a result of enslavement. A few years imbibed values that were alien and had later, and well into the twentieth century, no immediate relevance to her people. scholar and activist W.E.B. Dubois began Tus was the richness of Africa’s cultural advocating for full equality for African heritage degraded, and her people labelled as Americans, writing about colonization and primitive and savage.14 rejecting accommodationist approaches to dealing with racism and subjugation.4 Not only were African cultures, histories, Troughout the twentieth century, other languages, and bodies of knowledge pushed pioneering scholars and activists—like to the margins, the European colonizers Aimé Césaire,5 Frantz Fanon,6 Paulo Freire,7 demonized and demeaned everything that Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak,8 Edward Said,9 was African. An example of the astounding and Linda Tuhiwai Smith10—continued ignorance and racism of the European developing a body of knowledge for colonizers was given by historian David understanding oppression and colonization, Stannard in his book, American Holocaust. as well as a methodology for decolonization. He quoted the very eminent Oxford historian and scholar Hugh Trevor-Roper Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Tiong’o was one who wrote in his 1965 book, Te Rise of of those pioneers and in his 1986 book, Christian Europe, that the notion of teaching Decolonising the Mind, he wrote about the 11 African history was ludicrous: “Perhaps, in pervasiveness of European indoctrination. the future, there will be some African history His focus in the book was the language of to teach, but at present there is none, or very the colonizer, which was forced on Africans little; there is only the history of Europeans and afected every aspect of life. “African in Africa. Te rest is largely darkness, like children in colonial schools and universities,” the history of pre-European, pre-Columbian he wrote, learned “the world as defned and America.”15 refected in the European experience of history. Teir entire way of looking at the Te result of this complete dismissal and world…was Eurocentric. Europe was the subhumanization of colonized people is centre of the universe.”12 what Ngugi called a “cultural bomb” because the damage done to the psyche is so utterly In 1974, a number of African scholars and devastating. “Te efect of the cultural educators came together to formulate a bomb,” he wrote, “is to annihilate people’s way forward out of the devastating efects 13 belief in their names, in their languages, of colonization; in other words, how to in their environment, in their heritage of begin decolonizing the minds and self- struggle, in their unity, in their capacities identities of Africans. One of their proposals, and ultimately in themselves.”16 to begin teaching African literature in Kenyan schools, described the impact of the Tat the colonizer has been successful colonizer’s Eurocentric acculturation: around the globe in deeply damaging people and entire nations is the reality and the 5 HUM 101 history. Tat the colonizer has never been Colonizing methodologies treat all other successful in completely annihilating any perspectives as irrelevant, all other histories people’s belief in themselves is a testament and cultures as departures from “normal.” to the strength of the human spirit and Colonizing people view all “others” as less the power of resistance.
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