U. San Diego Profs: Rocks Can Help the ‘Healing Process’ From Racism
“’The holding and eroding of violent memories crafts an intimate and resistant geopoetics of Black humanity.'”
I have no words. From Campus Reform:
University of San Diego professors Diane Marie Keeling and Bethany O’Shea published a study titled “Conceptualizing Black Humanity Through Geopoetic Intimacy and Resistance: Memory Making-with Geologic Materials” on Jan. 27.
“Materials of geologic composition like soil, and those made from earth materials, such as steel and bricks, are employed to trope the bodies of lynching victims and weather racist geologic formations of subjecthood,” the study abstract reads. “The holding and eroding of violent memories crafts an intimate and resistant geopoetics of Black humanity.”
Keeling and O’Shea, professors of Communication and Environmental and Ocean Sciences respectively, spoke about their study in an interview with the University of San Diego News Center that was published on Tuesday.
They explained that their research examined racism in U.S. history and focused on “how people can use rocks to heal from this horrible history.”
The authors traveled to Birmingham, Alabama to see soil that was gathered from different states that saw lynching attacks throughout American history. They went to “view the soil collection and learned many other ways that geology was strategically used in the memorialization of lynching victims.”
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Not that numbers matter, but the total number of lynchings from 1880 to 1950 is equivalent to any 10 year stretch of black on black murders, in Baltimore, alone.
I suppose these professos could do more good by trying to stop the mass killing of blacks by other blacks in a major US city, but then, they would likely end up as victims in this crusade, so much better to go after white people who have been dead for 100 years.
These two have rocks in the head. No organic brain. Just 100% rock.
Yes, rocks can help the healing process. Especially if there’s lithium administered in large doses. At least you can’t squeeze a rock in your pocket to death when you get angry.
(That’s a reference to Of Mice And Men. For those in Rio Linda and folks who never watched Looney Toons.)
Please, again: tell me about the rabbits, GWB…
Science marches on,
Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic, racist.
Ah well, the Japanese discovered umami, and they were right.
We should cross this headline with the one about the cannibal being let out.
This line of academic research can be expanded to include black on black violence?
What language is that in?
Ask the brain damaged Reginald Deny…… That concrete block used to hit him played prominently in his geologic education of which neighborhoods NOT to drive through.
“’The holding and eroding of violent memories crafts an intimate and resistant geopoetics of Black humanity.’”
Huh? Say what?
Back in the early 70s when I attended USD, the Catholic Church was pretty good about focusing on the mission of a (small L) liberal education. There was little in the way of silly studies.
Somehow between then and now they’ve gone off the rails.
When I receive my quarterly alumni magazine it reads like it’s a comedy journal of absurdity. I don’t recognize my alma mater.