Master-slave dialectic
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Master-slave dialectic

Reddit introduced me to Hegel when I was 15 years old, and I have been an insufferable being ever since. As a young teaching assistant, I am known for my “yassification” of Hegel’s master–slave dialectic. Incorporating multiple mediums, if students are in my section, they are learning Hegel through 90s hip hop and pop culture references. This is often because, thankfully for everyone involved and for humanity’s sake, Hegel is background knowledge at most, and an exhaustive “get-to-the-point” reading at least. 

The objective here is to explain what is written within the pages of the master–slave dialectic. If I dove into (just now I thought about 10 things I am not joking) all that is, could be, should be, and will be connected to this piece, I would write a whole Ph.D. (hint, hint). 

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  • Interwoven into the existentialist philosophical argument of humanity, rebellion, and the interrelationship of autonomy and responsibility as depicted by de Beauvoir and challenged by Fanon is the interrelationship between deficit ideologies of Latine/x youth and combatting deficit ideological frameworks as well as the materialization of violence within K-12 settler colonial institutions that render Latine/x youth as deficit.

    - ángela godoy-fernández

  • Negative alienation is a consequence of this power dynamic and should not be viewed as separate from the power dynamic; rather, it is a production of it.

    - ángela godoy-fernández

  • Fanon’s interdisciplinary critique demonstrates a connection which depicts K-12 institutions as spaces/places materializing the difference between freedom as a fundamental universal and a differential praxis, and further positions child consciousness in sameness with Black consciousness in that it is positioned to navigate a world that has already presupposed its inferiority and, consequently, its needed annihilation.

    - ángela godoy-fernández