Mental Slavery and Colonization

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This paper reviews a number of articles which describe an image of savagery, sadness and subjugation that followed the history of slavery and colonization. It discusses the articles' analysis of the psychology of slavery, particularly as an economic process designed to extract physical, natural, and mental resources from a race of individuals. The paper then focuses on mental slavery which it argues to be the most serious aspect of slavery and colonialism, and in some cases the most brutal.

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"In conclusion, Martin Luther King presents a succinct summary of the situation; it is not enough for a few to realize some aspect of what is due to blacks in the United States and the world. It seems that society thinks its satisfactory to have some aspects of equality carefully manipulated to create the illusion of fairness. However, the masses of people have to also reap the benefits, (King, 1964, p 18). Slow progress is just like no progress, and at some point, it is clear that blacks 'will not wait anymore'."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bell, Derrick "Divining Our Racial Themes" in Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Presence of Racism, New York: Basic Books, 1992.
• Cesaire, Aime. "Discourse on Colonialism", African Philosophy: An Anthology edited by Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, Oxford: Black well Publisher, 1998
• Hove, Chenjerai, Excerpts from Bones, Harare: Baobab Books, 1988
• King, Martin Luther Jr. "The Negro Revolution", in Why We Can't Wait, New York: The New American Library of World Literature, Inc. 1964
• Nascimento, Abdias, "Quilombismo: An afro-Brazilian Political Alternative" Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2, Afro- Brazilian Experience and Proposals for social change (Dec. 1980).

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