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Shannon King commented on the post, Seeking the Black Vote, on the site Lose Your Mother 5 years, 6 months ago
Biden will likely get the black vote, but he’s deeply problematic.
Abigail, you’re partly correct that Biden represents the old guard of the Democratic Party, though the claim that he represents the […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 5 years, 6 months ago
As a younger voter in the 1990s, I was initially interested in Joe Biden. He was charismatic, spoke well, and seemed quite reasonable.
Of course, at this time, I didn’t know about his controversial […]
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Shannon King commented on the post, Modern-day Redlining, on the site Lose Your Mother 5 years, 6 months ago
Yes. Redlining is a live and well, unfortunately.
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Shannon King commented on the post, Black Politicians and the Run for Presidency, on the site Lose Your Mother 5 years, 6 months ago
Good post, Adebola. There were previous precedents for the presidency, but despite the attraction of the third party how likely is it for them to win? Also, what about the roles of “movement” politics? […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 6 months ago
Mark Herron, “Black women struggle impact in sports”
Conflicts from an athletic standpoint. Serena Williams has been receiving backlash for her catsuit from audiences saying it was too exposing. Brittney Gri […]
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Shannon King commented on the post, Open for discussion: Response to the question of "What did Obama do for African Americans of this country?", on the site Lose Your Mother 5 years, 6 months ago
Great question, Dante. I think, and this is what I was trying to get at yesterday morning, that Obama definitely inspired black people. It was both cultural and symbolic! And this is important!
It will be years […]
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Shannon King commented on the post, 3 Black Churches Have Burned in 10 Days: A Hate Crime, on the site Lose Your Mother 5 years, 6 months ago
This is an important conversation. On the one hand, certainly both Notre Dame and black churches should get support.
On the other, there’s a clear relationship between US racism and burning of black churches; […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 6 months ago
Workshop III
Brian Lief “Equal Pay for Women: Venus Williams, Serena Williams, and Other Female Athletes Fight for Equal Pay”
I am focusing on the efforts by female African American athletes to fight for pay […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 7 months ago
This post is partly inspired by recent student activism at the College of Wooster, represented collectively by the Galpin Call-in, as well more recently students, especially students of color’s concerns about […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 5 years, 7 months ago
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“The Danger of A Single Story”
In this class, while this course’s goal is to center African American History as central and part of the larger story of U.S. history, it also […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 5 years, 7 months ago
Systematic Racism Explained
This morning we discussed the rise of conservativism in American politics and liberal and conservative law and order politics. Part of that discussion is connected to previous […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 5 years, 7 months ago
“Kevin Kruse Takes to Twitter to School Dinesh D’Souza in American History” by Jeet Heer
Dinesh D’Souza gets a history lesson on Twitter. D’Souza has made a specialty of highlighting the undeniable racism of […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 7 months ago
Workshop II
Andrew Aldridge, “Killing Me Softly: An Observation of Hip Hop from a Feminist Lens”
This paper examines various ways women of color have fought against their portrayal in the male dominated hip […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 7 months ago
Paige Clay, “The mammy caricature through film and the responses of Black women”
For my final paper I’ve decided to explore the idea of the mammy caricature through film. I’ve also ties this to our class b […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 7 months ago
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 7 months ago
Scholars,
Yesterday in class, as we were discussing Carruthers’s work, we had brief discussion of Robin D. G. Kelley’s “Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination,” and I claimed that the current […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 5 years, 7 months ago
Exam II Review_From Reconstruction to World War II_spr 2019
You should be able to answer this series of questions: What is the basic story of African Americans from Reconstruction to World War II? How did w […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 8 months ago
The article “Bronx Slave Market” by Ella Baker and Marvel Cooke in The Crisis, the NAACP’s magazine has played a critical role in mobilizing black workers, civil rights leaders, and radical activists. This […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 8 months ago
Making Sense of Primary and Secondary Sources
Primary sources–sources that are contemporary with a particular time period can come in any form. These sources might be film, text, archival […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 8 months ago
Robin D. G. Kelley, “What Did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racialism Capitalism”
“So what did Robinson mean by “racial capitalism”? Building on the work of another forgotten black radical intellectual, soci […]
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