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- Title
Black Studies in the 21st Century: Resistance to Colonization, Globalization, and Genocide.
- Authors
Kunnie, Julian E.
- Abstract
This article provides a historical backdrop of the racist colonial system that enslaved and exploited Black people for the past five centuries and exterminated millions in the process of such subjugation, a genocide whose aftermath lingers into the present structures of the contemporary globalized world that ravages Mother Earth, annihilates the ecology, impoverishes marginalized women and working classes in the underdeveloped world and communities of color in the West, intensifies the prison industrial complex especially in the United States where Black people continue to be held in abject slavery behind bars by the hundreds of thousands, and poisons food, water, and air by ruthless capitalist trans-national corporations steeped in insane industrialism. Thus, this discourse on Black Studies highlights the urgent need for the expansion of Black Studies in schools, colleges, universities, and communities so that the anomaly of Black enslavement can be arrested by an educational program of liberation that corrects the historical record that denies Black civilizations, transforms the existing educational status quo that distorts the reality of Black life and culture, and necessitates a return to the wellspring of African ancestral wisdom, language, and culture.
- Subjects
AFRICAN American studies; BLACK studies; COLONIZATION; GLOBALIZATION; GENOCIDE
- Publication
Journal of Pan African Studies, 2016, Vol 9, Issue 10, p358
- ISSN
0888-6601
- Publication type
Article