The Haitian Revolution and the Hole in French High-School History | The New Yorker newyorker.com/culture/cultur… #AFR101
Interesting account of Venture Smith, but how twisted is it, @LindseyMcGinnis, to say that Broteer Furro by escaping slavery and becoming a property owner was "fulfilling "his American dream." Miseducation or just pure malevolence? #AFR101 csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2… #Maafa
Together, these two articles on public histories of Africans resisting slavery-the first, in an act of nation-building, the second a personal act of self-determination-call for Black people to develop a unique interpretative framework on the past.
Both national narratives-French and American-require that African life narratives are expendable, to be taught optionally and to be controlled epistemically. #AFR101 #Maafa
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