Black Alienation Experience: Interactive Unity Game
Summary
The culture bear is emotionally involved in their culture. This face has been advanced as a reason why The Black Alienation experience is a theory that can be celebrated. It is evident that the thought process of Marx’s alienation doesn’t not align with alienation because the definition is objective and a disregard to individuality. Black Alienation experience is a celebration of individualism, by separation the perspective and environment Black Alienation experience will enable use to be liberate from the western society
Abstract
Oxford Dictionary has two definitions for alienation; the first states that alienation is “the state or experience of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved.”(Oxford Dictionary). The second Oxford definition is composed by German Philosopher Karl Marx, which summarizes his theory of alienation as “a condition of workers in a capitalist economy, resulting from a lack of identity with the products of their labor and a sense of being controlled or exploited.”(Oxford Dictionary). While the first definition defines an objective state of alienation, Marx’s definition differs by explaining alienation through a capitalistic lens. So then, what is Black Alienation? Moreover, how does The Black Alienation experience contrast with Karl Marx’s definition? Is there such a thing as objective in alienation?
Introduction
Black Alienation comes from their personal identity which forms in black individuals given the environment, communities, or religion they stance for. This “experience" comes from the isolation of black people living in a capitalist society; this idea detracts from Marxism's tendency to expand the layers of capitalism by alienation. The first paragraph will become evident that Marxist definition denies unique identity and gives an explanatory statement of Black Alienation and Marxism subjective differences. When explaining “personal individuality, culture ,religion can be evident through the Ghanaian Akan Tribe’s theory of Personhood. These contributing factors will help us decide why the definition of Black Alienation is valid. It is important that readers first decolonize the mind before understanding the main evidence of this paper, In order to understand why Black Alienation is against Marxism. In order to do this, a look inside Marxism is prominent, and first we will criticize how Marxism specifies the Theory of Alienation has nothing to do with Alienation and Black Alienation. Readers will understand the meaning of Black Alienation through Ghanaian Philosopher Kwasi Waredu and Gykere .
Importance of Cultural and Religion
The culture of religion in the Akan tribe uses the Vudu religion through the separation of art. This is further examined in Sela Kodjo Dissertation “The Philosophy of Art in Ewe Vudu Religion”. In his paper he makes statements of his personal background living in Ghana being a part of the Akan tribe and questioning the westernization of Personhood comparing and contrasting the Ghana Philosopher Kwesi Wiredu take on Personhood. Sela writes a paper explaining how communities affect who we are he states “By appealing to the Akan conception of personhood, I show that the community sets the parameters of personal identity, and by body-politics and social recognition, the community determines what characteristics a person can/will take.”(Kodjo 6). This essay is similar to Black Alienation however while communities affect us, it is up to the subjectivity of individuals to analyze how much the presence of that effectiveness. In all the Black Alienation includes not all objectives towards the definition but requires some subjectivity to level out the experience of unique individuality.
Matrix Criticism
Karl Marx's conceptualization of Alienation derives from the Marxist tenant that human life is nothing in contrast to capitalism. Asher Horowitz, a Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, synthesizes the Marxist Definition perfectly. "He explains how Alienation is a surrender of control through separation from the essential attribute of the self." She follows by stating "the idea that all acts of labor involve an activity of some sort that produces an object of some sort." (Horowitz ). This idea creates a separation from the country to the person; Karl Marx's original book The Holy Family (1845) states capitalist Alienation as "the separation of producers from production"(Marx). Alienation and Black Alienation should not be considered even in the same family because Black Alienation is a reclamation of identity rather than a "surrender" of control. Horowitz and Marr claim that humans can undergo Alienation without being aware. Black Alienation cannot separate the basic structure of separation of the producers from the production. This claim is further expanded by African scholar Ani MARIMBA, who wrote in her book Let the Circle be Unbroken: The Implications of African Spirituality in the Diaspora. Promoting individualism in African studies is to be taken as scientific evidence. Ani states, "As African scholars, it is our responsibility to create systematic theoretical formulations which will reveal the truths that enable us to liberate and utilize the energies of our people." (MARIMBA pg. 12). Black Communities, family, and environment are how a person identifies. However, the communities we are directed from always exemplify our Personhood, which is why Marx's claim is wrong. Is there such a thing as an objective in The Black Alienation Experience? It is not because Black Alienation is not an objective but subjective thought of being away from our communities and separated from our personhood in white environments. It is promoted that Black Alienation requires awareness. Marxism's Theory of Alienation fails to diversify his perception of capitalism, separate the experience of Alienation from the state, and keep the experience as a community.
The Purpose of Educating
Black Alienation educates past identities (African American or African living in Western societies) about the miseducation of African Personhood. THE SOCIAL NATURE OF INDIVIDUAL SELF-IDENTITY: AKAN AND NARRATIVE CONCEPTIONS OF PERSONHOOD is a reexamination of personhood look by the Akan tribe in written by Ghana professor Corery L Barnes. Barnes argues that the misrepresentation of Ghanaian art and religion (In this case, the EWE tribe) is spread across Western education systems as inferior and "evil." He spends his academic life as an Ewe Curator and historian, quoting, "Through the entire learning process, I also discovered that exposure to the religious aesthetics and ceremonies of the Anlo-Ewe people gives my life more meaning and value" (Barnes 3). He talks about researchers and about how researchers (who are white) are also biased and have some privilege when researching the Ewe religion. He even talks about his privileges of researching his neighboring towns and being able to speak the EwE language. "A major concern among these scholars is how the background and personal beliefs of the researcher influence the findings and judgments of the research" (Barnes 4). The simplification of self identity to the Ewe tribe leads to an appreciation of the characterization of identity; it separates the human from the soul, while the western definition of Vudu creates an objectified definition of the religion. This is similar to the Marxist objectified Theory of Alienation. The Black Alienation experience breaks apart the miseducation of teachings by education African American of our cultural identity and religions
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June 20th 2023
