#The Jim Crow South
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Small acts of resistance by Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks were grains of sand that changed the angle of repose of segregation in the Jim Crow South. Their actions toppled three generations of laws, rules, and "customs" piled on the shoulders of Black citizens denied liberties guaranteed by the Constitution.
So, too, with the small demonstration in the well of the Tennessee assembly last week by Justin Jones, Justin Pearson, and Gloria Johnson. Their acts of resistance have set in motion grains of sand that dislodge others nearby, which in turn dislodge others . . . .
The chain reaction has begun. The movements will be imperceptible at first but—once started—are unstoppable. One small act of resistance by a single person is all that is necessary to overcome the angle of repose of decades of discrimination and injustice. Justin Pearson. Justin Jones. Gloria Johnson. You.
We are watching history unfold and repeat itself as news leaders arise to lead the next generation. Our hearts should be glad and filled with hope!
[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]
#protest#resist#dinosaurs#Robert B. Hubbell#Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter#Rosa Parks#The Jim Crow South#Justin Jones#justin Pearson#Gloria Johnson#acts of resistance
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Man eating on the porch. Clarksdale, Ms. - 1937
Photographer: Dorthea Lange
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Happy Days - Fonzie Fights Racism at a Southern Diner - The Fonz
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I used to think that most people had more sense before I got into this fandom because the way people just completely disregard Louis' (and Claudia's) blackness in a show that is an adaptation of a book where the main character owned 2 plantations and hunted slaves for food while talking about his hatred and fear of those he enslaved is like incredible. And to not understand that the show is taking aspects of its source material to task. And to come in with such a superficial understanding of how gothic romance is depicted in Western media, to imply that Louis being put into a role that is almost always taken up by white women is something that's to just connect to a more common audience? Like do you hear yourself? And I KNOW many of yall don't engage with black gay art I KNOW you don't listen to us and often think us outside of queer experience but at some point you are going to need to contend with the fact that there might be something deliberate with the way Louis talks about his relationship with Lestat. The way Claudia interacts with him vs Lestat before and after ep 5. The words she uses to describe the two of them. The books and art put on screen. The costume design. At some point you need to realize you don't know what the fuck you talking about
#drama txt#the biggest thing that gets me is why would you put it in the tags?#but once again if you don't consider blackness as something that matters ofc you gonna look at something like amciwtv and have vapid takes#ofc you're going to see the de Lioncourts photo and go oh welp. here they are making the gays het!!#and not for a moment think about what it means for a black gay man to be PUT into that position of “housewife”#while married to a white man#IN JIM CROW DEEP SOUTH AMERICA LIKE THE SHOW IS SO OPEN ABOUT THE THEMES#it is so obvious about it and heavy handed at times but now I see its not only necessary but not enough the way people are actively dodging#and lets not even get into how few other queers will even consider a trans reading of anything louis is going through
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500 angels lose their wings every time someone whitewashes hazel in a fanart or fancast
#she's a DARK SKINNED black girl from the jim crow south her race is crucial to her character and her experiences#and even if it weren't marginalized groups do not need to be erased more than they already are#don't be stupid#hazel levesque#heroes of olympus#percy jackson and the olympians#pjo hoo toa#baye.txt#i love that tumblr is such a queer space but it does not escape my notice that it is still mostly white people here#and as a queer poc i am so frustrated by stuff like this
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the total lack of acknowledgment on this site that robbie is first nations is also wildddddddddddd
#‘well he used to refer to himself as white’ he started out playing in a white band touring the american south 😭#no shit the first nations teenage guitar player wanted to avoid conflict in the fucking jim crow south 😭
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On May 28, 1914, the Institut für Schiffs-und Tropenkrankheiten (Institute for Maritime and Tropical Diseases, ISTK) in Hamburg began operations in a complex of new brick buildings on the bank of the Elb. The buildings were designed by Fritz Schumacher, who had become the Head of Hamburg’s building department (Leiter des Hochbauamtes) in 1909 after a “flood of architectural projects” accumulated following the industrialization of the harbor in the 1880s and the “new housing and working conditions” that followed. The ISTK was one of these projects, connected to the port by its [...] mission: to research and heal tropical illnesses; [...] to support the Hamburg Port [...]; and to support endeavors of the German Empire overseas.
First established in 1900 by Bernhard Nocht, chief of the Port Medical Service, the ISTK originally operated out of an existing building, but by 1909, when the Hamburg Colonial Institute became its parent organization (and Schumacher was hired by the Hamburg Senate), the operations of the ISTK had outgrown [...]. [I]ts commission by the city was an opportunity for Schumacher to show how he could contribute to guiding the city’s economic and architectural growth in tandem, and for Nocht, an opportunity to establish an unprecedented spatial paradigm for the field of Tropical Medicine that anchored the new frontier of science in the German Empire. [...]
[There was a] shared drive to contribute to the [...] wealth of Hamburg within the context of its expanding global network [...]. [E]ach discipline [...] architecture and medicine were participating in a shared [...] discursive operation. [...]
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The brick used on the ISTK façades was key to Schumacher’s larger Städtebau plan for Hamburg, which envisioned the city as a vehicle for a “harmonious” synthesis between aesthetics and economy. [...] For Schumacher, brick [was significantly preferable] [...]. Used by [...] Hamburg architects [over the past few decades], who acquired their penchant for neo-gothic brickwork at the Hanover school, brick had both a historical presence and aesthetic pedigree in Hamburg [...]. [T]his material had already been used in Die Speicherstadt, a warehouse district in Hamburg where unequal social conditions had only grown more exacerbated [...]. Die Speicherstadt was constructed in three phases [beginning] in 1883 [...]. By serving the port, the warehouses facilitated the expansion and security of Hamburg’s wealth. [...] Yet the collective profits accrued to the city by these buildings [...] did not increase economic prosperity and social equity for all. [...] [A] residential area for harbor workers was demolished to make way for the warehouses. After the contract for the port expansion was negotiated in 1881, over 20,000 people were pushed out of their homes and into adjacent areas of the city, which soon became overcrowded [...]. In turn, these [...] areas of the city [...] were the worst hit by the Hamburg cholera epidemic of 1892, the most devastating in Europe that year. The 1892 cholera epidemic [...] articulated the growing inability of the Hamburg Senate, comprising the city’s elite, to manage class relationships [...] [in such] a city that was explicitly run by and for the merchant class [...].
In Hamburg, the response to such an ugly disease of the masses was the enforcement of quarantine methods that pushed the working class into the suburbs, isolated immigrants on an island, and separated the sick according to racial identity.
In partnership with the German Empire, Hamburg established new hygiene institutions in the city, including the Port Medical Service (a progenitor of the ISTK). [...] [T]he discourse of [creating the school for tropical medicine] centered around city building and nation building, brick by brick, mark by mark.
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Just as the exterior condition of the building was, for Schumacher, part of a much larger plan for the city, the program of the building and its interior were part of the German Empire and Tropical Medicine’s much larger interest in controlling the health and wealth of its nation and colonies. [...]
Yet the establishment of the ISTK marked a critical shift in medical thinking [...]. And while the ISTK was not the only institution in Europe to form around the conception and perceived threat of tropical diseases, it was the first to build a facility specifically to support their “exploration and combat” in lockstep, as Nocht described it.
The field of Tropical Medicine had been established in Germany by the very same journal Nocht published his overview of the ISTK. The Archiv für Schiffs- und Tropen-Hygiene unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Pathologie und Therapie was first published in 1897, the same year that the German Empire claimed Kiaochow (northeast China) and about two years after it claimed Southwest Africa (Namibia), Cameroon, Togo, East Africa (Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda), New Guinea (today the northern part of Papua New Guinea), and the Marshall Islands; two years later, it would also claim the Caroline Islands, Palau, Mariana Islands (today Micronesia), and Samoa (today Western Samoa).
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The inaugural journal [...] marked a paradigm shift [...]. In his opening letter, the editor stated that the aim of Tropical Medicine is to “provide the white race with a home in the tropics.” [...]
As part of the institute’s agenda to support the expansion of the Empire through teaching and development [...], members of the ISTK contributed to the Deutsches Kolonial Lexikon, a three-volume series completed in 1914 (in the same year as the new ISTK buildings) and published in 1920. The three volumes contained maps of the colonies coded to show the areas that were considered “healthy” for Europeans, along with recommended building guidelines for hospitals in the tropics. [...] "Natives" were given separate facilities [...]. The hospital at the ISTK was similarly divided according to identity. An essentializing belief in “intrinsic factors” determined by skin color, constitutive to Tropical Medicine, materialized in the building’s circulation. Potential patients were assessed in the main building to determine their next destination in the hospital. A room labeled “Farbige” (colored) - visible in both Nocht and Schumacher’s publications - shows that the hospital segregated people of color from whites. [...]
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Despite belonging to two different disciplines [medicine and architecture], both Nocht and Schumacher’s publications articulate an understanding of health [...] that is linked to concepts of identity separating white upper-class German Europeans from others. [In] Hamburg [...] recent growth of the shipping industry and overt engagement of the German Empire in colonialism brought even more distant global connections to its port. For Schumacher, Hamburg’s presence in a global network meant it needed to strengthen its local identity and economy [by purposefully seeking to showcase "traditional" northern German neo-gothic brickwork while elevating local brick industry] lest it grow too far from its roots. In the case of Tropical Medicine at the ISTK, the “tropics” seemed to act as a foil for the European identity - a constructed category through which the European identity could redescribe itself by exclusion [...].
What it meant to be sick or healthy was taken up by both medicine and architecture - [...] neither in a vacuum.
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All text above by: Carrie Bly. "Mediums of Medicine: The Institute for Maritime and Tropical Diseases in Hamburg". Sick Architecture series published by e-flux Architecture. November 2020. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Text within brackets added by me for clarity. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]
#abolition#ecology#sorry i know its long ive been looking at this in my drafts for a long long time trying to condense#but its such a rich comparison that i didnt wanna lessen the impact of blys work here#bly in 2022 did dissertation defense in architecture history and theory on political economy of steel in US in 20s and 30#add this to our conversations about brazilian eugenics in 1930s explicitly conflating hygiene modernist architecture and white supremacy#and british tropical medicine establishment in colonial india#and US sanitation and antimosquito campaigns in 1910s panama using jim crow laws and segregation and forcibly testing local women#see chakrabartis work on tropical medicine and empire in south asia and fahim amirs cloudy swords#and greg mitmans work on connections between#US tropical medicine schools and fruit plantations in central america and US military occupation of philippines and rubber in west africa#multispecies#imperial#indigenous#colonial#landscape#temporal#see also us mosquito campaigns in panama and british urban planning in west africa and rohan deb roy work on india bengal entomology#ecologies#bugs#tidalectics#archipelagic thinking#plantations#intimacies of four continents#carceral geography#black methodologies#indigenous pedagogies
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my grandma was telling me about all the presidents she lived through and she calls trump "the one who starts with a t" like if she says his name he'll show up like beetlejuice
#To be fair she is a black woman who was born and raised in the south during the Jim crow era#Like she had to go to one of those colored ppl only schools
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yk it’s bad enough that we could say that the erie canal was influential in starting the civil war but i truly believe you could make the argument that it also led to the great migration
#em posts#nhd core#i mean think about it#mechanization and industrialization as a result of erie canal#boom towns like chicago along the canal and bcs of the industrial rev#further polarization btwn north and south as economies diverge#civil war and eventually jim crow laws#black southerners driven out of the south#increased economic opportunities in the north due to industrialization#i think it works#can you tell i’m reading about the great migration
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THE BITTER LEGACY OF THE BOER WAR - Document - Gale Academic OneFile
The strange irony between the American Bicentennial War against the British and the Boer war between Boer and British never changed anything for the Black Indigenous People of both continents because they were treated even worse after both wars.
Black and Indigenous People fought on both sides thinking that the victors would change from their system of oppression but neither happened for them; in fact they were treated even worse and this same treatment is still relevant today because white supremacy reigns and the people who helped them are still being marginalized.
#black history#black love#black positivity#black africans#black south africans#apartheid#jim crow#segregation#european colonizers
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As a non-American, I always have a mocking smile on my face when Americans (aka habitants of the USA or of Canada to be precise) call out a country "evil" or "criminal" and call for its complete destruction and dismantlement... Because A) "They're not a real country, they're settlers that colonized a land that was not theirs" and/or B) "They built their country on a genocide and killed the indigenous people".
This type of discourse pops up a lot with the Israel situation currently, but it had been around before for other countries and... I just laugh at the sweet ignorance of these blissfully unaware Americans who are literaly describing the history of their OWN country, little colonies that became the nation they are today by mass-genocide of the people native to the land.
So if you think one country should not exist because it is a "genocidal colony" and that everybody in it should return from "where they come from", think hard about it because it also means you want to destroy and dismantle the United-States and Canada, and also a lot of countries in Southern America. Basically the entirety of the American continent. If that's your opinion so be it, but if I see anymore hypocrite that goes "Yes X country should not exist because it was built on colonization and genocide but the USA/Canada is the greatest and has all the rights to be there", I'll hold them for what they are, aka morally short-sighted and self-centered morons. If you want to apply this line of logic to other countries, be ready to apply it to your own country too and be aware of the irony of your situation.
[And I think it is very important to remember that because recently the far-right groups in the US have been trying to erase all the "bad side" of the USA history, aka they have been erasing or dowplaying from media and school and other information outlet stuff like the American genocides and the way a huge part of American society was built on slavery... I mock a bit viciously above, but truly sometimes I am sad for Americans who literaly know less about their country than other people - I, just following a regular European school-course, ended up learning more about the USA's history than a lot of Americans I talked to.]
#america#american continent#united states of america#usa#canada#hypocrites#but that's typical americans for you#denouncing elsewhere the stuff they're been made of#same thing happened with discrimination and slavery you know#with lot of americans that were against the apartheid in south africa but were absolutely fine with stuff like Jim Crow laws in the us#overall this is the peak self-righteous american mindset right there
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East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana - 1936
Photo: Margaret Bourke White
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Bélizaire and the Frey Children (c. 1837)
#Bélizaire and the Frey Children (c. 1837)#tiktok#chattel slavery#us history#art history#jim crow#antebellum south#history#hyperallergic#louisiana#19th century#20th century#new orleans#the metropolitan museum of art#art restoration#painting#article
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KKK adjacent
#Israel#Zionism#South Africa#apartheid#racism#open air prison#Gaza genocide#discrimination#exclusion#dehumanization#American South#Jim Crow#KKK
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Ok no more white people can watch amc iwtv we've had enough we've reached the quota thank you....
#drama txt#if I may get a lil mean here.#this is partially the fault of people en masse billing it as an “unapologetically queer” show#bc to very many white queer people queerness is White. they can only view it through a white gaze#and don't realize the protag is a whole ass nigga from the Jim Crow south LIKE?????#there are many people coming to this show just lacking the perspective to actually engage with it#missing like half the damn show#and yeah I'll say it if you aren't watching for Louis why are you here.#its interview with THE vampire he's THE vampire#if you lack the ability to be engaged with him literally just don't watch at this point#AND DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED ON HOW THESE PEOPLE TALK ABOUT CLAUDIA
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So I work as a tutor, so my job is always putting out magazines about education, usually the Chronicle of Higher Education and a few others.
Right now there's a piece on the table that's absolutely heart breaking in a lot of ways, because it's about finally offering AP African American Studies in school, and there's so many beautiful stories from the black students connecting to and learning about their history.....in an article that is focused on the loopholes that teachers need to wrestle with in order to teach AP African American Studies at all within states that have legally restricted discussions about race.
#this about teaching in Kentucky. which explicitly says:#'defining racial disparities solely on the legacy of this institution [slavery & Jim Crow] is destructive to the unification of our nation.'#i want these lawmakers to read this entire 2 page spread where black students talk about finally knowing about themselves#and feel deeply DEEPLY ashamed that they could ever say such a fucking thing.#the idea that teaching abt Black history and racism is inherently destructive to unity.... this country makes me really sick.#tomi talks#THE ARTICLE IS ABOUT KENTUCKY BUT 17 STATES HAVE PASSED LEGISLATION LIKE THIS!!!#SEVENTEEN!!!!!#A LOT OF THEM LARGELY IN THE PREDOMINATELY BLACK SOUTH!!!!!
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