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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMichael Harriot's "Drapetomaniax: Unshackled History" (of black history)
Drapetomaniax: Unshackled History
A podcast with Michael Harriot.
Drapetomaniax: Unshackled History, is a Black history lesson unlike any other. Equal parts funny and informative, each episode mixes comprehensive research, Harriots unrivaled comedic wit and an assortment of celebrity guests, including Yvette Nicole Brown, MSNBCs Joy Reid and Charlamagne tha God to help bring Black stories youve likely never heard to life.
Podcast schedule page for Drapetomaniax: Unshackled History Also contains link to open podcast on your computer.
Drapetomania was the term coined by the racist doctor Samuel A. Cartwright who claimed that slaves wanting to escape bondage must be mentally ill because slavery much improved the lives of black people bought and sold into slavery. He published a paper on his racist concept.
When people talk of slavery not being that bad, or of "good" masters, or slavery being beneficial to those enslaved, you can see the concept of drapetomania running through such thinking. ("Why are those people complaining, slavery wasn't that bad?" - the implication being something must be wrong with black people to think slavery was bad. The are plenty other examples out there.)
A podcast with Michael Harriot.
Drapetomaniax: Unshackled History, is a Black history lesson unlike any other. Equal parts funny and informative, each episode mixes comprehensive research, Harriots unrivaled comedic wit and an assortment of celebrity guests, including Yvette Nicole Brown, MSNBCs Joy Reid and Charlamagne tha God to help bring Black stories youve likely never heard to life.
Podcast schedule page for Drapetomaniax: Unshackled History Also contains link to open podcast on your computer.
Drapetomania was the term coined by the racist doctor Samuel A. Cartwright who claimed that slaves wanting to escape bondage must be mentally ill because slavery much improved the lives of black people bought and sold into slavery. He published a paper on his racist concept.
When people talk of slavery not being that bad, or of "good" masters, or slavery being beneficial to those enslaved, you can see the concept of drapetomania running through such thinking. ("Why are those people complaining, slavery wasn't that bad?" - the implication being something must be wrong with black people to think slavery was bad. The are plenty other examples out there.)
If you can, give a listen.
Thanks!
Solly
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Michael Harriot's "Drapetomaniax: Unshackled History" (of black history) (Original Post)
Solly Mack
Sep 2023
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brer cat
(24,615 posts)1. I enjoy Michael Harriot.
Bookmarking for later listening. Thanks, Solly!
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)2. You're welcome, brer cat
leftstreet
(36,116 posts)3. DURec
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)8. Thanks.
Aristus
(66,467 posts)4. That blisteringly incompetent, unethical shithead whom someone granted an MD
also coined the diagnoses rascality and negritude.
I hope that motherfucker (or cousinfucker, whatever
) is burning in agony down in Hell for all eternity.
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)6. Aime Cesaire coined the term Negritude and it's not a negative. At all.
It means the positive self-affirmation of blackness. Of what it means to be black in a world dominated by the colonizer - the white world.
Aristus
(66,467 posts)9. All right. That's good to know. I only ever saw the word in context of Cartwright and his evil
diagnoses of people desperate to escape from enslavement. As if wanting that was a mental illness.
Thank you for correcting me.
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)10. Used in conjunction with his words, it was probably meant to be negative.
But the movement itself wasn't. Cesaire was a French born, of Nigerian descent, poet and author.
Aristus
(66,467 posts)11. I was just reading his Wikipedia article.
Interesting. Its always good to learn new things.
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)12. A good read on the Negritude Movement. If want you, is...
JustAnotherGen
(31,907 posts)5. Thank you!
Always looking for engaging podcasts for my commute days.
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)7. You're welcome, JustAnotherGen. Enjoy!
It's good.