HUMA 1780 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Binary Opposition, Sacred Tradition, Intersectionality
29 Mar 2019
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Oral texts are meant to performed and heard rather than be read. Obama couldn"t do stuff: he positions himself as an extraordinary. Soujourner truth: was a slave and she lived quite old and became after 1865 and prior to that important figure to black abolitionist movement, never acquired written literacy, dovetails [1] in 1960 to women right movements. She discuss racial oppression and the oppression around the gender. Intersectionality as a noun describes how two oppressions work together to intensify the oppression. Insisting humanity in speech which counters chattel slavery. She makes an important connection in women"s right to chattel slavery. She points to the contradiction and hypocrisy of how white men are released but black women are not. In gospels, it is deferred to a afterlife, coated with messages of afterlife (doing in right now) She wants everyone to sing in a hymn that has direct relation to what she talk about.
