{"product_id":"whiteness-of-akkkademia-and-the-making-of-a-slave","title":"Whiteness of Akkkademia and the Making of a Slave","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Secrets lose their power once they are exposed!\" That is what Dr. Angeline Dean firmly believes. Akkkademia tried to stop her from telling\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eher story, but she prevailed, and this is part one of her story. \"We have been keeping everything\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ein the house and in our housed bodies for far too long and it is killing us, literally. It is\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003epast time to pull the band-aid off and get healed. In fact, let's not only talk about it but also\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003edissect it\" she asserts. The \"it\" she is referring to is white-injected oppression- a term coined\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eby Baba Wekesa Madzimoyo as his work seeks to heal African Americans of enslavement's\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003epsychosis. Most know this term as internalized racism, yet when using the term internalized\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eracism, she learned that we are re-victimizing the victim.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book served as Dr. Dean's autoethnographic account (like that of a biography) of what\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eshe experienced by those who profess(ed) to be such access, success, inclusion, justice, progress, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eand power -to -the people focused...Yet served as straight-up plantation overseers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eand accomplices. In it, she shares how she is \"tired of discussing and hearing about direct\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eencounters from 'whiteness, ' 'white delusional supremacy, ' whiteness as property, ' alongside\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eother pro-Black and critical theories while remaining silent, repressed actually, when\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ediscussing the social reproduction of whiteness's sickness and infection upon African American, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlack, and Brown people wholistically. \"If a white snake bites me, it's okay for me to\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eexpose that, but if a Black, Brown, Bi-racial, or International Black snake bites me, then I\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eam supposed to remain silent while feasting on the poison? No Ma'am! No Sir! In fact- like\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003emy uncle used to say, \"Ah Hell to the Nawh! I've witnessed the afterlife of enslavements\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eabuse toward too many melanated students, African American students in particular. Melanated\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eto be exact-NOT colored in my opinion, because I do not subscribe to BIPOC.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"I will NOT remain silent and play a game that relegates me to game-prey...I AM NOT\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eyour animal! I AM a Human who is proud to be HUEman and a human BEing. I will not\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eonly be free, but I seek to be whole. AND, I will not JUST be free but I. Will. BE. Free\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003einDeed!\" This is Dr. Dean' daily declaration!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn this book, you will read the intersections and interconnections of her theories, flow with\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eher poetic methods, and witness her 'I was Never down with OPP model (Oppression Plantation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eParadigm). Hear what she not only endured but also how she had to fight back using\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003esome of the Master's tools and proud hood strategies...#Reparations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Angeline Dean","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46359557636332,"sku":"9798218447946","price":79.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46359557669100,"sku":"9798218508050","price":66.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9798218447946.jpg?v=1779618128","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/whiteness-of-akkkademia-and-the-making-of-a-slave","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}