By Althea Prince
Within the culture of essayist reminiscent of Dionne model and bell hooks, sociologist and writer Althea Prince supplies us a suite of essays on Black Canadian tradition.
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Filling up the space for the definition of my ancestors.. taking me over.. making me "slave"! "slave"! "slave"! no matter what other words I use to define myself.. "slave"! no matter what other actions 1 carry out in this other time, in this day and age. Now, today, I state that I am an African woman who is releasing the word "slave"! " I think that the issue of the slaves deeply affects the psyche of African people in the Diaspora. Recently, when I delivered a version of this essay to a largely African audience, the response was palpable.
Slave"! no matter what other actions 1 carry out in this other time, in this day and age. Now, today, I state that I am an African woman who is releasing the word "slave"! " I think that the issue of the slaves deeply affects the psyche of African people in the Diaspora. Recently, when I delivered a version of this essay to a largely African audience, the response was palpable. Many young adults and older men and women (who, to use the Antiguan way of saying it, "have some good age")) spoke of the feelings of shame they experience when "the slaves" are spoken of in the academy.
I see the writing of this essay as a part of my personal 40 — Althea Prince commitment to struggle, marronage,^ resistance, and revolt. " The reference appears everywhere: in the culture, in the academy, in the cultural hegemony in which I do life. Whenever I hear it, read it, or almost say it myself, I must stop short and address it. I do so even if, at the time, the appropriate place for raising the issue of the slaves is only in my own mind. " I assert, as if my assertion, the figurative stamping of my foot, (or even stamping my foot literally), will change things.