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Summer Walker at Terminal 5 in NYC!
Great show!
“The persistence of racial inequality is partly what sustains the salience of race.”
Source: Ralph Richard Banks. “Beyond Colorblindness: Neo-Racialism and the Future of Race and Law Scholarship. Harvard Blackletter Law Journal. pg. 42. Vol. 25. 2009.
“Race remains salient and racial inequalities are too entrenched and pervasive to ignore.”
Source: Ralph Richard Banks. “Beyond Colorblindness: Neo-Racialism and the Future of Race and Law Scholarship. Harvard Blackletter Law Journal. pg. 41. Vol. 25. 2009.
“[R]acism looms as the central and often unyielding impediment to black advancement.”
Source: Ralph Richard Banks. “Beyond Colorblindness: Neo-Racialism and the Future of Race and Law Scholarship. Harvard Blackletter Law Journal. pg. 41. Vol. 25. 2009.
“Europeans had long held slaves but before the 15th century, that slavery was never racialized. As Iberians began to travel to Western Africa, there were still large numbers of slaves from Eastern Europe and the Caucuses in Spain. Coincidentally, the source of enslaved humans began to dry up after the conquest of Constantinople, just as Spanish traders began to bring enslaved Africans back to Europe in increasing numbers. As Debra Blumenthal shows, Spanish law clearly forbade the enslavement of Catholics, and many of the first captured Africans brought to Spain received trials to determine their religious status. Soon, however, Spanish authorities began to accept black skin as prima facie evidence of non-Christianity. Suddenly, then, the law attached meaning to skin color to help buttress an exploitative and expanding system of slavery. This order of events, in which law created racial meaning in the service of exploitation, would be repeated over the coming centuries in the Western Hemisphere.”
Source: Jonathan Booth. Capitalism, Anti-Blackness, and the Law: A Very Short History. Harvard Black Letter Law Journal. Vol. 35. pg. 5. 2019.
“The practice of racism and the meaning of race have shifted repeatedly over the centuries, but anti-blackness has remained ever-present.”
Source: Jonathan Booth. Capitalism, Anti-Blackness, and the Law: A Very Short History. Harvard Black Letter Law Journal. Vol. 35. pg. 5. 2019.
“Six centuries ago, capitalism and white supremacy arose hand in hand from the Atlantic Ocean; these twinned structures have together defined much of human history ever since.”
Source: Jonathan Booth. Capitalism, Anti-Blackness, and the Law: A Very Short History. Harvard Black Letter Law Journal. Vol. 35. pg. 5. 2019.
