Slavery: The Role Of Cultural Resistance In America

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“Cultural resistance is the practice of using meanings and symbols, that is, culture, to contest and combat a dominant power, often constructing a different vision of the world in the process.” (Duncombe 1) Cultural resistance can be expressed in a multitude of ways to convey the oppression and injustice that people at times fail to recognize. Significance through art is a way for cultural resistance to blossom and in turn bring awareness to the importance of the cause. The famous phrase out of sight and out of mind is a perfect example as to why cultural resistance is needed. It is easy to be unaware of something that hasn’t been brought to your attention. Our great nation was built with the notion and end goal of a democracy in which …show more content…

“In the Caribbean and in many slave societies in the Americas, one of the most important aspects of resistance to slavery was the retention of African culture or melding African, American and European cultural forms to create new ones such as the Kweyol languages (Antillean Creole).” (“Resistance and Rebellion”) Despite the forcing of European culture on slaves, most of if not all of the of African culture of colonial slaves has been preserved and passed on through the generations. “The importance of African culture – names, craftsmanship, languages, scientific knowledge, beliefs, philosophy, music and dance, was that it provided the psychological support to help the captives resist the process of enslavement. The act of enslavement involved attempts to break the will and ignore the humanity of slaves in what was known as ‘seasoning’. (“Resistance and …show more content…

This article focuses on the idea of cultural sabotage.” Cultural sabotage is used to describe any form of guerilla communication that confuses and/or distorts the message transmitted by the mass media. The central idea is that advertising has taken popular culture to remold it and give it back to society as packaging for one central idea: the answer to consume.” (Clavell 1) The article quotes the book Publicité et Societé by publicist Bernard Cathelat and states “Advertising is not only a commercial word, but also a political word, a social word, a moral word and an ideological discourse. It is the dominant language of the culture, and without doubt, the most important information system in

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