1.6: Key Terms — Read — Invisible Network

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Abolition is the action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.
Black Radical Tradition is the continuing development of a collective consciousness informed by the historical struggles for liberation; it is motivated by the shared sense of obligation to preserve the collective being and the ontological totality.
Chattel Slavery is the most common form of slavery known to Americans. This system, which allowed people — considered legal property — to be bought, sold and owned forever, was lawful and supported by the United States and European powers from the 16th – 18th centuries.
Herrenvolk is a German term that refers to the ideal of a Master Race; it was utilized by Nazis as the belief that Germans or Nazis were innately superior to all ther races.
Feudalism is the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.
Racial Capitalism is the process of deriving value from the racial identity of others, while harming the individuals affected and the greater society as a whole.
Interdisciplinary is used when something (idea, knowledge, practices, etc.) relates to more than one branch of knowledge.
Indigenous is used to describe something or someone that originates or occurs naturally in a particular place; native to a place.
Polytheism is a belief in multiple gods
Monotheism is a belief in one God

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