Breaking Language: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement in LiteratureMain MenuIntroduction: How was the Civil Rights Movement fought in language?Pre-Civil Rights Era Uses of Language: Epistemic Violence and Legal RestrictionsJames Brown, "Too Funky in Here" (1979)Builder Levy, I AM a Man (1968)Builder Levy, I Am a Man/Union Justice Now, Memphis, TN, 1968. From the series Civil Rights and Peace. Gelatin Silver print
13 1/16 × 8 13/16. artsy.net.Builder Levy, Harlem Peace March 1967Builder Levy, Anti-War ProtestBuilder Levy, Harlem Peace March to End Racial Oppression, April 27, 1967. The statement "No black man ever called me chink: support the black struggle for existence" was taken from boxer/activist Muhammad Ali's original statement about his refusal to participate in the Vietnam War, "Ain't no Vietcong ever called me nigger." Amitage Digital Resources, Columbia University.Dykes on Bikes: Headlining SF Pride Parade since 1977Malcolm X's Repudiation of a Slave NameMalcolm X: Language Play and Caustic IronyAudre Lorde: "You cannot dismantle the master's house with the master's tools" (1984)Adrienne Rich "Diving into the Wreck" (1973)James Baldwin: Deconstructing the Language of RacismConclusion: Language as a Medium for Activism and LiberationCreative Commons LicenseResourcestest of radial viewvisualization of contentCathy Kroll0c0427ebd621fb54b22b23c07748d7202fcfe9c8
Writer Patricia Corbett reading "The Master's Tools"
12016-11-06T16:04:38-08:00Cathy Kroll0c0427ebd621fb54b22b23c07748d7202fcfe9c898661Writer Patricia Corbett reading "The Master's Tools" by Audre Lorde. Visit www.patriciarcorbett.com.plain2016-11-06T16:04:38-08:00YouTube2015-02-28T19:06:45.000ZT1O6-K-4iu0Patricia CorbettCathy Kroll0c0427ebd621fb54b22b23c07748d7202fcfe9c8
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12016-11-06T15:46:32-08:00Audre Lorde: "You cannot dismantle the master's house with the master's tools" (1984)15plain2016-11-08T08:07:38-08:00Use language created by yourself, not by the master (powerful others): Throughout the Civil Rights era and in the 1970s, the decade in which the struggle continued, feminists and other progressive thinkers demonstrated a higher consciousness of how language operates: how language can be used to create legal barriers to equality and dignity, and how language is intimately connected to the pursuit of freedom. Writer, feminist thinker, and lesbian Audre Lorde famously wrote in her collection of essays Sister Outsider that "you cannot dismantle the master's house with the master's tools." Here is Patricia Corbett, a kindred spirit, reading and memorializing that passage . . .