Proposal Title
Ownership and Violence Against Women of Color Reflected Through the lens of Anglo Saxon Theology
Location
Room 3-085
Start Date
9-11-2018 3:15 PM
End Date
9-11-2018 4:30 PM
Presentation Type
Paper
Abstract
In the American cultural mind, white bodies have been upheld as ideal. In addition, the male body has received praise, greater access, and safety on the streets, in business, education, and the wider world. In the arena of higher education students tend to discover how their personal sociocultural perspective informs ownership of the lack thereof. It is through this reality that the idea of ownership is seen when it comes to violence inflicted on/received by women. When race is included in the violence against women dialogue we uncover the branches of Anglo-Saxon Exceptionalism, planted by the theologies and worldviews of American colonizers and founders. This presentation will examine violence against women as it relates to ownership (of property and bodies) and race as well as continuing the ideals of Puritan theologies sprouting from Anglo-Saxon Exceptionalism. The core of this argument lies in the history of how black bodies have been owned in America and how the while male has “owned” rights to men of color for labor, women of color for sex, and white women for reproduction. This thread continues in our cultural imagination, excusing white men who are accused of assault, but investigating men of color more deeply. The norms that result are that white men are protected, men of color are intruders, and violence against women is natural.
Included in
Art Practice Commons, Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education Commons, Educational Leadership Commons, Higher Education Commons, Theatre and Performance Studies Commons, Women's Studies Commons
Ownership and Violence Against Women of Color Reflected Through the lens of Anglo Saxon Theology
Room 3-085
In the American cultural mind, white bodies have been upheld as ideal. In addition, the male body has received praise, greater access, and safety on the streets, in business, education, and the wider world. In the arena of higher education students tend to discover how their personal sociocultural perspective informs ownership of the lack thereof. It is through this reality that the idea of ownership is seen when it comes to violence inflicted on/received by women. When race is included in the violence against women dialogue we uncover the branches of Anglo-Saxon Exceptionalism, planted by the theologies and worldviews of American colonizers and founders. This presentation will examine violence against women as it relates to ownership (of property and bodies) and race as well as continuing the ideals of Puritan theologies sprouting from Anglo-Saxon Exceptionalism. The core of this argument lies in the history of how black bodies have been owned in America and how the while male has “owned” rights to men of color for labor, women of color for sex, and white women for reproduction. This thread continues in our cultural imagination, excusing white men who are accused of assault, but investigating men of color more deeply. The norms that result are that white men are protected, men of color are intruders, and violence against women is natural.
