I really liked Dr. Batey’s lecture for this week. I really liked how he got us to participate in the lecture because it made me focus more and consider what he was actually saying? He talked about the dismemberment of Africans into various parts of the world and how those people were affected. When scholars talk about it they only focus on how the Africans lost everything and didn’t have anything to call their own. In our lecture we focused on the things that they didn’t loose and kept with them from their homes. They didn’t speak or write English so they were considered illiterate yet they spoke and wrote the language from their countries. Although they didn’t know the American culture there many things we do and use today that was brought over by the slaves. Dance, music, spirit, and LANGUAGE etc.
With dismemberment the African had to learn all the new society rules as well as a sense of belonging. Any ideas they had were looked on as coming from their master because that’s all they knew. This is what scholars mean when they say that Americans have been severed from their history. They’re very unaware of the things our ancestors went through to get to the places we are today. There’s an invisible hand in society that makes us see things in a different way (such as Africans lost everything).
This is why we are doing our research on figuring out how scholars have or are looking to change something in our society. How can we get Americans reconnected to the history that we’ve lost ad how do we go about getting it done. We need to bring back culture: reconstruct or rewrite the history of the Americans so we can all having an understanding so we all have an idea of where we come from.
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