Question 1: How can we apply the major arguments from the chapter, The “Anti-Black City” to the Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S.?
Concerning the “Anti-Black City,” the Black Lives Matter movement aims at responding towards police brutality and a dominated control controlled by racial segregation through protests and initiated campaigns. Such segregation steers death as one of the primary ways of dominating against ethnic communities, consequently leading to more violence and cases of marginalization that undermine peace.
Question 2: In the Sexing the Caribbean article, what are the politics of silence?
Politics of silence gets linked to the boldness of manhood as an identity alongside his strong desires and qualities for sexuality.
Question 3: Drawing from the video, how does the government under Bolsonaro’s have the power of life and death over its population? Whose lives matter under his rule? Who voted for him, and why?
Bolsonaro’s government aims at installing armed forces as the primary control and praising officers for killing criminals rather than prosecuting them. Thus, Bolsonaro’s government values the lives of officers more. Members of the Social Liberal Party elected Bolsonaro while trusting him and his ideologies of using the armed forces to foster a change of governance and fight corruption cases.
Question 4: Discuss how Young Hollywood is inflicting White Racism towards Amara La Negra. How is Amara La Negra resisting?
Young Hollywood is spearheading a subject of Eurocentricity and racism, whereby he disregards Amara La Negra’s beauty and offers praises based on skin color in explaining a pretty blackness. Amara La Negra argues against such prejudices and an equation that centers her choice of hair according to her skin color.
Question 5: According to Lara, why is her existence so threatening to dominant society that upholds anti-Blackness in the Caribbean?
Lara believes that societies maintain anti-Blackness see her existence as a threat to neo-imperialism. While Neo-imperialism or neo-colonialism aims at elevating countries based on globalization and regardless of color, supporting anti-Blackness only places control over societies based on color.