6. What Slavery Engendered: An Intersectional Look at 1619
Intersectionality Matters!
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Is There Something Inherent in Black Women?
There's still this sense that there's something wrong with us largely because our women don't get it right and our men don't stick around. So do you see that as a continuing dimension of the history of slavery as it shapes frames who black women are thought to be? I think so because what, why is it that this is so persistent over the centuries when we see more progressive advances and disruptions in other contexts? It seems so obvious that black women are treated differently as innate, innately defective, innately depraved as opposed to other people in our society.
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