When Black Consciousness Meets White Consciousness in Feminist Organizations

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rozena Maart
Keyword(s):  
Black Consciousness ◽  
Feminist Organizations ◽  
White Consciousness

Race and Pedagogical Practices: When Race Takes Center Stage in Philosophy

Hypatia ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rozena Maart
Keyword(s):  
White Woman ◽  
White Women ◽  
Research Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Black Consciousness ◽  
Black South African ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
Women And Gender Studies ◽  
White Consciousness

This paper presents a segment of a broader research project titled “When Black Consciousness Meets White Consciousness,” which first developed out of my research work with White women in violence‐against‐women organizations. It documents an interview between a White woman and me, a Black South African philosopher. I lived and worked in Canada at the time but I traveled to the United States for conferences on a regular basis. I was presenting my work on Black consciousness, White consciousness, and Black existentialism—relying on Derridean deconstruction and psychoanalysis—when I had the exchange with a White woman, a young faculty member in the philosophy department, which had jointly hosted the talk with the women and gender studies department. This paper offers a verbatim account of this dialogue wherein the history of philosophy is unraveled and where I draw on Jacques Derrida's “White Mythology” to demonstrate how White consciousness is engraved. It is out of this intertwined analysis that my work on White consciousness emerged in the 1990s—and with which I continue—as is evidenced throughout the paper. In unpacking this dialogue, I situate the complexities that arise from the pedagogical practices within philosophy when race takes center stage within a discipline that has written itself as though race does not exist.

Itumeleng Mosala: Giving Theology Its World, Feet and Hands

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Takatso Mofokeng
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Black People ◽  
Black Consciousness ◽  
History Of ◽  
Black Consciousness Movement

Worthy of celebration is the contribution made by Itumeleng Mosala (hereafter Mosala) to the Black Methodist Consultation, the theological community in Southern Africa, and the Black Consciousness Movement. This article attempts to give theology its world, feet and hands in the person of Mosala. The article departs from the narration of the history of Mosala. It locates Mosala within township life and Old Testament scholarship. Furthermore, the article searches for suitable and effective weapons of intellectual struggle in light of Mosala’s life. The aim of this article is to celebrate the indelible footprints that Mosala made as he communed with black people.

WIFE BATTERING FROM AN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE AND MALAYSIAN LEGAL PROVISIONS

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasimah Hussin ◽  
Ramizah Wan Muhammad
Keyword(s):  
Corporal Punishment ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Physical Assault ◽  
Feminist Organizations ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
Wife Battering

Wife battering is a ground for divorce in the Malaysian Shariah Courts. Some husbands claim that it is their prerogative right to discipline their wives by corporal punishment based on their superficial understanding of the Qur’anic text 4:34 which seems to justify this argument. Some feminist organizations condemn this and allege that if physical assault is lawful in Islam, it leads to a woman’s persecution. This paper examines the issue of wife battering from both Islamic perspective and Malaysian legal provisions. It clarifies the misconception that exists regarding the above issue which is in fact, due to lack of understanding and prejudice against Islamic law.

‘Wisselbare Woorde’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrol Clarkson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
The Other ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Politics Of Representation ◽  
Black Consciousness ◽  
Nadine Gordimer ◽  
Contact Zones ◽  
Critical Problems ◽  
Ethics And Politics

Carrol Clarkson’s chapter wrestles with the contentious question of Coetzee’s relation to the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa of the 1970s and early 1980s, which took its philosophical bearings from Frantz Fanon and found expression in the writings of Steve Biko. Clarkson focuses on the ways in which Coetzee departed from the ideas about writing and resistance that were circulating in his contemporary South Africa, particularly as articulated by novelist Nadine Gordimer. Clarkson discusses two related literary-critical problems: an ethics and politics of representation, and an ethics and politics of address, showing how Coetzee explores a tension between freedom of expression and responsibility to the other. In the slippage from saying to addressing we are led to further thought about modes and sites of consciousness—and hence accountabilities—in the interlocutory contact zones of the post-colony. The chapter invites a sharper appreciation of what a postcolonial philosophy might be.

scholarly journals Storying ourselves: Black Consciousness thought and adolescent agency in 21st-century Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Elleke Boehmer ◽  
Chris Desmond ◽  
Alude Mahali ◽  
Hillary Musarurwa
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Black Consciousness

Black Consciousness - Expression and Reality

1969 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Arthur H. Silvers ◽  
Arthur Frazier ◽  
Virgil Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Black Consciousness
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