African American CT

dominance of white America

belief in racial superiority, inferiority, and purity based ont he conviction that moral and intellectual characteristics, just like physical characteristics, are biological properties that differentiate the races

the unequal power relations that grow from the sociopolitical domination of one race by another and that result in systematic discriminatory practices

incorporation of racist policies and practices in the institutions by which a society operates

literary work shave been defined as great art, as "universal" and included in the canon only when they reflect European experience and conform to the style and subject matter of the European literary tradition

the belief that European culture is vastly superior to all others

the psychological programming by which a racist society indoctrinates people of color to believe in white superiority

discrimination within the black community against those with those with darker skin and more African features

the awareness of belonging to two conflicting cultures: the African culture and the the European culture imposed by white America

a nonstandard form of American English spoken by some Black people in the United States

literary and artistic offshoot of the Black Power Movement

primacy of their relationship to African history and culture

common, ordinary experience for people of color in the United States (nonvisible forms of racism)

racism converges, or overlaps, with the interest - with something needed or desired - of a white individual or financial interest of upper-class whites who exploit black laborers by paying them less than their white counterparts, and its in the psychologicial interest of the working-class whites whose own experience of being underpaid and exploited by wealthy whites makes them need to feel superior to someone else

the desire to advance oneself in the material world (financially or psychologically) determines the ways in which the dominant society practices racism

definition of race change as economic and social pressures change

the dominant society racializes (defines the racial characteristics of) different minority groups in different ways at different times in response to its shifting needs

no one has a simple, uncomplicated identity based on race alone (intersects with class, sex, sexual orientation, political orientation, and personal history in forming each person's complex identity)

the belief that minority writers and thinkers are generally in a better position than white writers and thinkers to write and speak about race and racism because they experience racism directly

the myriad of social advantages, benefits, and courtesies that come with being a member of the dominant race

the conviction that racial equality will never be achieved in the United States and that African Americans should, therefore, stop believing that it will

the spoken quality of its language

various indirect, clever, ironic, and playful ways of giving your opinion abut another person without saying explicitly what you mean

white conception of African and African American people on which white authors have projected their own fears, needs, desires, and conflicts