Tag: Fanon

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2021 Abstracts Stage 2

#BlackLivesMatter

Aim: The aim of my project is to address why racism is still prevalent within society today. I will do this by interpreting philosophical approaches towards racism as well as addressing the recent event of George Floyd. Towards the end of my project, I will explore key actions that we are currently doing and can take as a society to help diminish racism.

Key philosophical thinkers: Frantz Fanon, Lewis Gordon, Angela Y.Davis

Methodology: Historical approach, axiological approach, interpretive approach

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2021 Abstracts Stage 2

How inherent racism has manifested itself into the American judicial system

• My project shows the fundamental racism in the American judicial system that mirrors the attitudes of colonial times.
• Primarily using philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon and his book, The Wretched of the Earth, I show the link between colonial and judicial racism and how prejudice from the past is still alive today, and how this could have happened.
• The wrongful conviction of the ‘Central Park Five’ is my key case study as it reflects the broken system that colonialism upheld.
• I also address other matters of judicial racism in different countries as it is a worldwide problem, with reference to some other philosophical views and relations to Fanon.
• In exposing the issue, I address the changes, Movements, and positive progression that continues to eliminate racism from the world.
• However, I also highlight the remaining systemic and societal racism and how much more needs to be done to cure the sickness that it is.
• I found Fanon’s philosophy truly engaging, the more informed about the horrors and persecution of colonialism I became, the more my interest in its history grew as I still wonder how humanity can be so inhumane.