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Sign of the Times: #Stanton, #Tubman, #Prince and #Trump (Jacqueline Battalora)

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Channel: Philippe SHOCK Matthews · 2016 · Entertainment

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Prince captured highlights of 1980s U.S culture in the 1987 song, Sign O The Times, from the Challenger explosion to gangster disciples, crack and other drug use, from media coverage of death and killing to the pressure to get married and have a child. His song captures the signs of the times even while Prince challenged the cultural norms with a fluidity that transgressed musical genre, sex and gender, and race.  He left fans and consumers of his art dancing with the ambiguity.

The week of Prince’s death saw not only the loss of a genius but the escalation of an unprecedented presidential primary after New York held its primary. The week was also notable for the announcement by the U.S Department of Treasury that changes to currency are coming. Images of people on currency serve to honor valued leaders and likely say more about the current moment than about the past. Just as the current presidential primary races are full of insight into the anxieties, hopes, and ideals of the varied people of these United States, the selection of people who don our currency suggest symbolic needs.

By 2020, the American humanitarian who escaped slavery and became a leading abolitionist, Harriet Tubman will be on the front side of the 20 dollar bill. She was also a spy and an armed scout for the Unites States Army during the Civil War. She represents the best of American heroism. She represents still more. Her brown skin and her gender are in stark contrast to the long line of white men upon our paper currency who have held a monopoly upon those representing U.S. values and history.


ABOUT DR. JACQUELINE BATTALORA

Dr. Jacqueline Battalora is an attorney and professor of sociology, anthropology, and criminal justice at Saint Xavier University in Chicago.

As an anti-racist writer, educator, and trainer, she teaches courses in law and society having received her Ph.D from Northwestern University where her research was shaped by an interest in the social forces that make deep human connections across race so difficult to sustain. Her graduate training includes: theology, social ethics, sociology, and law. Battalora’s approach to white awareness training is enhanced by employment experience that includes educator, corporate attorney, Chicago police officer, and coffeehouse co-owner. Her writings explore the enforcement of divisions between people specifically, the making of human difference in law.

She is the author of the 2013 book “Birth of A White Nation: The Invention of White People and it's Relevance Today.” (http://goo.gl/q3eRCW).

Dr. Battalora was born in Scotland and lived in Belgium for six years before her family relocated to Victoria, Texas. The experience of attending high school & middle school in Texas formed her understanding of race in America. Dr. Battalora speaks widely on the topic of the invention of white people in law and has been conducting white awareness & anti-racist training sessions since the mid 1990s. She has trained teachers as well as lawyers, judges, activists, corporate and law enforcement officials on the legal historical record of white privilege and its implications for work conducted today.

LINKS:
https://www.facebook.com/JBattalora/
http://www.jacquelinebattalora.com/
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