A deep dive into the relationships between antiblackness, modernity, race, and postcoloniality in East Asia, thanks to Jae Kyun Kim and Yeon-Hwa Lee.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00380237.2025.2549009

#sociology #history #asia #antiblackness

Alright everyone, it's time for nobody's favorite game! Will This Doctor Treat Me Like A Human Being Worthy of Compassion and Respect and Care About My Wellbeing? Or Will They Gaslight Me and Treat Me Like Shit?

#BlackAndDisabled #disability #disabled #MedicalRacism #fatphobia #antiBlackness

“If They Were Lighter, They Made It Through” — The Haunting Truth Behind Dominican Colorism

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"The theft and enslavement of Black children shapes global labor systems."

#antiblackness #labor

"Of the Five Tribes, the Cherokees were the largest holder of Africans as chattel slaves. By 1860 the Cherokees had 4,600 slaves. Many Cherokees depended on them as a bridge to white society. Full-blood Indian slave owners relied on the blacks as English interpreters and translators. Mainly, however, enslaved persons worked on farms as laborers or in homes as maids or servants. The Cherokees feared the aspect of a slave revolt, and that is just what happened in 1842 at Webbers Falls.

On the morning of November 15 more than twenty-five slaves, mostly from the Joseph Vann plantation, revolted. They locked their masters and overseers in their homes and cabins while they slept. The slaves stole guns, horses, mules, ammunition, food, and supplies. At daybreak the group, which included men, women, and children, headed toward Mexico, where slavery was illegal. In the Creek Nation the Cherokee slaves were joined by Creek slaves, bringing the group total to more than thirty-five. The fugitives fought off and killed a couple of slave hunters in the Choctaw Nation.

The Cherokees blamed the incident on free, armed black Seminoles who lived in close proximity to the Cherokee slaves at Fort Gibson. On December 2, 1842, the Cherokee Nation passed a law commanding all free African Americans, except former Cherokee slaves, to leave the nation."

Source: https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=SL002

#antiblackness

"Members of five Native American nations, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole Nations (known as the Five Tribes), owned black slaves. Then located outside the territorial boundaries of the US in a region known as Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma), these sovereign nations were not affected by proclamations or constitutional amendments. Instead, separate treaties had to be made between the US and these Native American nations not only to free enslaved peoples, but also to formally end the American Civil War battles and antagonism between American and Native American troops.

The fact that by the time of the Civil War black chattel slavery had been an element of life among the Five Tribes for decades is rarely discussed. It is, however, an important aspect of US history which serves to remind us of the complexity of colonialism, exploitation and victimisation that laid the foundations of our country."

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/12/27/how-native-americans-adopted-slavery-from-white-settlers

#antiblackness

"Wilma Mankiller, the Cherokee Nation’s first female chief, is one of the most well-known and widely respected Native American figures in the country.

But, like all human beings, she’s complicated: She was also an architect of the mass disenrollment of the Black members of her tribe (also known as “Freedmen”) — a position she regretted later in life, and an injustice that has only just been fully remedied under the current Cherokee principal chief, Chuck Hoskin, Jr.

Mankiller’s election in 1983 will, and should, be remembered as the first in which a woman was elected deputy chief. It was also the first election since 1866 — when the Cherokee Nation, in a treaty with the United States, acknowledged its former slaves as citizens — in which Black Cherokees were not allowed to vote. Two watershed events, one of them an uplifting sign of progress and a return to Cherokee ideals of matrilineal power, and the other, a reversal of century-old tribal policy that left a lingering “shadow” on the nation, as Mankiller herself later put it in her autobiography.

What does it mean that a woman who exemplified Native female power and pride was also a supporter of segregation and inequality?"

Source: https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-people-places-reconsidering-wilma-mankiller/

#antiblackness

Absence in the making : Decolonial Feminism and Anti-Blackness - Interview with Selamawit Terrefe by Fania Noël

"This interview was published in March 2023 in French. […] However, it was never published in the original language in which it was conducted. […] What follows is the original version of the interview, as approved by Selamawit, presented here without modification.

https://www.ritimo.org/Absence-in-the-making-Decolonial-Feminism-and-Anti-Blackness

#SelamawitTerrefe #Decolonial #Feminism #AntiBlackness