Gay white slave
White Male for Sale
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White Male For Sale is a conceptual NFT plan. The NFT is a perpetually looped video of a light male on an auction block on a street corner in a Black neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. The project incorporates a live auction of the NFT video.
When NFTs broke into the public lexicon, the &#;F&#; in NFT—Fungible—resonated strangely for me. NFT&#;s are Non Fungible Tokens that confer uniqueness to digital artworks. But I heard the phrase fungible in connection with its use by scholars of the history of slavery. People are inherently non-fungible. But as slavery became an integral part of developing capitalism, enslavers sought to change people into commodities and construct them fungible. In the 16th &#; 18th century the Portuguese and the Spanish used a system called Pieza de India through which people were quantified and valued in relation to an idealized slave—or a &#;piece of India.&#; Later, in the ledgers of 18thth century American slavers, people are referred to as No. 1 slaves, No. 2 slaves, etc.—a means by which unique
Although nearly fifty-seven years have passed since Stanley Elkins’ provocative thesis on the effects of slavery rocked the historical community, scholars are still grappling with some of the basic premises he put forth. While the effects of slaveholders’ psychological terrorism still inspire intense debates, it should prove helpful for scholars to attention on how severely the enslaved were mentally tortured. Perhaps one of slave owners’ more innovatively inhumane strategies concerned the ways they sought to completely emasculate enslaved boys and men—by denying them the right to wear pants. By forcing young African American boys and men to wear dress-like shirts, the owners of flesh attempted to feminize and humiliate enslaved males on a daily basis. According to scores of interviews with the formerly enslaved, denying black boys and young men the right to wear pants was a relatively widespread practice throughout the Deep South.
This custom certainly becomes even more appealing when slaveholders’ opinions about slave breeding and the virility of young “bucks” is taken into con
Did you know white slave owners raped enslaved African males? Here’s why
The quest by white slave owners to dominate Africans was so dire that they devised Buck Breaking (Male Slave Rape) to smash the intimidated and robust enslaved African males they have taken delivery of.
While homophobia cannot be countenanced in civil society, the opposition to the homosexual union must nonetheless be viewed beyond the lens of morality to historical experience.
In Jamaica, as adequately as, in other Caribbean states, the opposition to gay sex is in part due to the distasteful incidences where a slave owner or an overseer before a dark population raped the dominant male often comprising his wife and children to emasculate him and to send the warning that even their supposed frontman could be tamed.
In Tariq Nasheed’s Hidden Colors documentary, the case is made that right from the ships which spent some three months on the high seas, the enslaved African males were an easy target for the captain and his unruly crew, who had their way with the hapless men. Sadly, the train continued on the plant
Thomas Foster, Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men (Athens: University of Georgia Press, ) xi, pp. $
In Joseph Lavallée&#;s novel, The Negro Equalled By Few Europeans, an enslaved African man named Itanoko describes being raped by a white slaver named Urban. The white bloke was &#;struck with my comeliness,” Itanoko says, which &#;made him violate, what is most sacred among men.’” According to Thomas Foster’s Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved, Itanoko’s fictional account, a product of legal coercion and legal violence, reflected a common reality. White men routinely forced enslaved men to cater to sadistic fantasies and humiliations around the plantation: it was, perhaps, as much part of the apparatus of the slave system as sexual violence against enslaved women.
Does such a history surprise you? There’s a reason for that. The popular image of the American slave has changed dramatically over the past century, but most scholars have shied away from the dangerous territory of male sexuality. Unsurprisingly, what we have left are stereotypes. The