January 2010
52 posts
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“If I perceive my ignorance as a gap in knowledge instead of an imperative that...”
– Barbara Johnson, “Nothing Fails Like Success”
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squash it.
I hate the term “loan forgiveness.” No one is forgiving shit: if you take a job in which you serve the public good, you aren’t performing some philanthropic service that absolves you from a fucking irresponsible and reckless past in which the fact you took out loans was somehow equivalent to taking the bite out of a certain apple on a fast-forward voyage to becoming Fallen Flesh...
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omg enuf wit da ipad jokez.
Listening to old beats while reading Herskovits. ...
More on Universities/Students/Prisons/Prisoners
The question as to what extent it is now possible to say that university students share the same lot as prisoners has been raised in a few different contexts. At the same time, documents like Communiqué from an Absent Future use the term “prison” as a metaphor for society itself. Seizing on UC President Mark Yudof’s ill-advised suggestion that if the University of California...
South Carolina Lt. Governor Compares State's Poor...
(The last line of this piece is the clincher)
Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux for AOL News Service. 1/25/09.
The office of the South Carolina governor has not been particularly distinguished of late - but Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer, who is currently running for that position on the Republican ticket, made some comments on Friday that made Mark Sanford look positively respectable. During a town...
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Good news/weird news
Good news: Just got a call from a large Midwestern university telling me that I’m one of eight finalists for their dissertation year fellowship.
Weird news: The finalists for said fellowship are brought out to said university to meet the department, colleagues, and to give a (sorta) job talk. Scary! This means I actually have to whip my own arse into gear and get this dissertation chapter...
[M]uch of the understanding of blacks in the Americas is the constant problem and problematic of labor, dehumanization, and resistance to exploitation. These considerations have a profound impact on the study of such blacks. Fanon’s quip from Black Skin, White Masks is illuminating in this regard:
One day St. Peter saw three men arrive at the gate of heaven: a white man, a mulatto, and a...
Association for Gravestone Studies Student... →
(via chuffedlittlezombie)
My friend actually forwarded this to me in disbelief last week.
I’m assuming, Chuffed, that this conference is going to be where we meet IRL?
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Basketball league for white Americans targets... →
The All-American Basketball Alliance announced in a news release Sunday evening that it intends to start its inaugural season in June and hopes Augusta will be one of 12 cities with a team.
“Only players that are natural born United States citizens with both parents of Caucasian race are eligible to play in the league,” the statement said.
“The only surprise about his presidency is how many ersatz leftists cling to the...”
– Adolph Reed on Obama
Reminder to Self →
Dear lowendtheory,
Really, don’t ever read the comments on any Heritage Foundation posting having to do with anything at all. Especially not about historical figures that matter to you. In fact, why are you reading the Heritage Foundation website, anyway? Don’t you have, like actual work to do?
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the song clearly speaks to something deep inside us all.
WatchKhia, “My Neck, My Back.”
This song has managed to stand the test of time so well.
And the chorus is epic.
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David Brooks - The Underlying Tragedy →
…it is time to put the thorny issue of culture at the center of efforts to tackle global poverty. Why is Haiti so poor? Well, it has a history of oppression, slavery and colonialism. But so does Barbados, and Barbados is doing pretty well. Haiti has endured ruthless dictators, corruption and foreign invasions. But so has the Dominican Republic, and the D.R. is in much better shape. Haiti...
thedirtycanuck asked: what is your favourite cheese?
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sorry guys
schwartzy:
lowendtheory:
i’m really not going to see avatar, no matter how many articles get posted about it, and no matter how fucking badass it looks in 3D. can’t do it homies. if i couldn’t bring myself to see precious, no way i’m seeing this shite.
now back to dancing by myself to “paparazzi.”
will you have my babies?
lemme pencil you in for december.
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sorry guys
i’m really not going to see avatar, no matter how many articles get posted about it, and no matter how fucking badass it looks in 3D. can’t do it homies. if i couldn’t bring myself to see precious, no way i’m seeing this shite.
now back to dancing by myself to “paparazzi.”
spokenbeats asked: I'm taking a course in African American Diaspora in Communities and Cultures, and today I was asked to critique the ideas of a sociologist by the name of Frazier. He believed that in order for Black Americans to prosper in America, we should fully assimilate to the mainstream (white) American culture. Anyways, I was just wondering how you would respond to this, and is full assimilation...
WatchHaitian ambassador Raymond Joseph flips it on Pat Robertson. There are more important things to be focusing on than Robertson’s ever-dwindling relevance, so I hope this helps to put the discussion and reaction on his idiotic comments to rest so that we can concentrate on more pressing business.
hay chuffed! →
this fa you.
(don’t know if it’ll help.)
ask me anythang →
last time i did this with formspring, i got a lot of “special” questions. can’t wait for more.
chuffedlittlezombie:
Tumblr, if you don’t help me, these (hypothetical) kids are going to get assigned Jasbir Puar’s book in their first semester in college. Not all of them will make it.
My undergrad mentor actually told me some horror stories about her “unforgivable mistake” of assigning Terrorist Assemblages to her Junior/Senior seminar.
Apparently there was an attempted...
ta-nehisi coates - what gangsta rap has to say to... →
MOP was basically made for moments like this. The best part of a joint like “Ante-Up” is that normal rappers talk about how their going to shoot you, or some such. MOP takes it a step further—Kidnap that fool. Not buck that fool, kidnap that fool. After a rough day at work, after getting a ticket you didn’t deserve, and yeah, after hearing Pat Robertson slander whole...
Question for the people I follow on Tumblr:
ekswitaj:
Tumblr seems somehow less public than regular blogs or Twitter. How do you feel about regular blogs linking back to your Tumblr log? And why isn’t the option to allow people to answer this appearing?
I’ve recently learned that there are people (whom I know) reading my Tumblog that I had no idea were reading it (hey folks!), so another level of publicity—being linked to by...
is it weird
trs-80:
lowendtheory:
that i’m freaked out by the name schwartzenegger?
it pretty much combines two names that i’ve been very unhappy to have been called.
OMFG U R TOTES RACIST AGAINST AUSTRIANS!!1
…aber habe ich österreichischen Freunden!!¨
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is it weird
that i’m freaked out by the name schwartzenegger?
it pretty much combines two names that i’ve been very unhappy to have been called.
Scarub - Savvy Traveler (2000)
“I’m a...
“[W]riting that is arcane to the point of incomprehensibility is very much part...”
– Post-Structuralism As Subculture, Barbara Epstein (via beetx) (via curate)
(Semi-coherent rant) I think that the version of poststructuralism offered in this essay—and its endless collapsing of poststructuralism with postmodernism in order to allow the critique of the latter to stand in for...
“[C]ontrary to the fashion in most prefaces, I will not add that “all mistakes...”
– Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
“African-American is a bogus, PC, made-up term. I mean, that’s not a race. Your...”
– Think Progress » Beck: ‘African-American is a bogus, PC, made-up term. I mean, that’s not a race.’
So I know I’m responding to Glenn Beck on the internet like it’s gonna change something but…
African-American came about to reflect the the fact that the children of the slave trade don’t know...
Schwarzenegger Seeks Shift From Prisons to Schools... →
wrote this as a comment in response to a friend’s posting of this elsewhere:
i think part of my issue is the way the relationship between universities and prisons is being staged as a relationship; the relatively obvious part is that the state needs universities in order to build one (middle-upper) class of the population and the state needs prisons to maintain another (poor-working)...
“Perfect your own speech.
It ain’t worth the mic stands
Used by backup...”
– GZA, from Wu-Tang’s “Severe Punishment”
“Economism should be considered a type of fundamentalism.”
– Hardt and Negri, Commonwealth (via chuffedlittlezombie)
Rest in Peace Mary Daly (1928-2010) →
We had a lot of beef, Mary, but you really taught me a ton about the power and function of myth in the reproduction of patriarchy.
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What’s the use of art?
“Thus all Art is propaganda and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda. But I do care when propaganda...
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How can we, realistically, overthrow capitalism as soon as possible?
Yeah, I honestly don’t know. What I think I do know is that a great deal depends on the status and makeup of the “we” in question. In the recent year or so of my experience organizing in response to the UC budget cuts, tuition hikes, and resegregation, it’s been hard for me not to be struck by the...
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how do you know so much about trains? or rather why?
In anticipation of teaching James Weldon Johnson’s Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man for my Black Cultural Studies class this past quarter, I spent some time reading about the Pullman porters in the early 20th century. I probably read about Union Stations in Larry Tye’s book, Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of...
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