AMST 211 1nd Edition Lecture 15 Outline of Current Lecture 1. Two Films2. Monster BallCurrent LectureTwo Films: Two Ways to Perish• Extra Legal Death: ◦ Strange fruit/Lynching◦ Mob violence◦ Disinfranchisement • State Sanctioned Death◦ Death Penalty◦ Life Imprisonment ◦ Tracking/school to prison pipeline• Devolution into Animality ◦ Social Death ◦ Abdication of one’s humanity. ◦ Signs of sexual deviance **Relationships between man and animal define the relationship between God and man**Monster’s Ball (2001): most people were more concerned with the inter-racial part rather than what was overcome. The problem is that African Americans were separated from humanity and had to prove that they deserved to belong in the world. • Death Penalty:◦ 2013 FBI showed that the South had the highest murder rate. The South accounts for 80% of executions…. ◦ The death penalty cost $2.16 million per execution. • Racial Belongings◦ Binary of blackness and whiteness◦ Who is black and who is white and how to determine such differences form the spinal cord of southern community life. Human Animal Distinction• The distinction between human and animal predates the enlightenment and comes to us out of theology. The fear of humanity’s descent into animality was of great concern to early philosophers and we can see traces if thus fear across the spectrum of the philosophical tradition- from the social contract/political theory and analytic philosophy...These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.• black studies is not about the study of
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