June 2010
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bonesarecoralmade replied to your post:Well, that’s it for nerd camp. I had fun! Friends…
nice…..what are you looking at, if you can/want to say.
I’m going to be looking at the archives of the Institute of the Black World, which I suspect you might know something about. But in case you haven’t, the IBW was a pretty important research institute based in Atlanta. It opened up...
Well, that’s it for nerd camp. I had fun! Friends were made. Drinks were had. Laughs were copious. Will in a few hours be busing it back to Brooklyn to spend almost two weeks during what is arguably the sweatiest time of the year.
I start research at the Schomburg on Tuesday. Yay!
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ahnka asked: just curious/nosy... what moved you from detroit to... bedstuy + harlem... to the bay area?
Celebrating Refusal: The Complexities of Saying No →
Bravo to Judith Butler for turning down the Berlin Pride “Zivilcourage Award”. As Tavia writes, Judith Butler 1, Homonationalism 0. But is this really a victory for the anti-racist queer groups of color who Butler named as the truly courageous? Who are the other winners and losers in the collision of European anti-racist political activism with US academic notoriety? What are the conditions of...
After an 8-hour flight from San Francisco to New York yesterday, I’m now on a bus headed to New Hampshire for weeklong academic camp. Will—or at least, should—be off tumblr for the next few days.
Judith Butler refuses PRIDE award in Berlin →
“I must distance myself from this racist complicity.”
Awesome.
I know I talk about Black Agenda Report a lot, usually because they have dope reporting and are one of the best internet resources for Black Left thought based in the U.S. But part of why I read them is that they do not mess around when it comes to 1) rhetoric or 2) titles. I often tell my students, who are taught not only to write as if they have no opinion unless they are asked explicitly to...
Civil death (Latin: civiliter mortuus) [1] is a term that refers to the loss of all or almost all civil rights by a person due to a conviction for a felony or due to an act by the government of a country that results in the loss of civil rights. It is usually inflicted on persons convicted of crimes against the state or adults determined by a court to be legally incompetent because of mental...
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Damn, you leave tumblr alone for one day and…very little changes.
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faithandbegorrah replied to your link: Rent-a-white-guy
Have you seen the Better Off Ted episode “Operation White Shadow”?
Veridian to black people: WE SEE YOU.
Rent-a-white-guy →
Chinese entrepreneurs are renting random white guys to pretend to be visiting businessmen, and to lend an aura of general Being Connected to the West to business meetings, conferences and receptions:
And so I became a fake businessman in China, an often lucrative gig for underworked expatriates here. One friend, an American who works in film, was paid to represent a Canadian company and give a...
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So let me get this straight. African football players come to Europe and are expected to tolerate throes of European fans constantly calling them monkeys (if not worse), and throwing bananas on the field when they play.
But now, when European players come to Africa, they expect to be catered to because they can’t handle a couple fucking horns?
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So, I just want to send a herzlich eff-you to this past academic year. It had some decent moments, and I had some wonderful students, but I worked too hard, got paid too little, took out too much money in loans, and made too little headway on the dissertation. Meanwhile, I applied for seventeen dissertation fellowships and got rejected by every last one of them. And since the university has cut...
UC Irvine Bans Muslim Student Union →
In what many say is an unprecedented act, the suspension is the result of a months-long internal review by the university following the arrest of 11 union students during Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren’s speech on campus. Oren was repeatedly interrupted by the union members.
[what the fuck.]
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WatchDeborah Cox, “Sentimental”
With a cute circa-1995 Omar Epps draped in a far-too-big leather jacket, to boot.
“They were nice old ladies,” Clare explained, “very religious and as poor as church mice. That adored brother of theirs, my grandfather, got through every penny they had after he’d finished his own little bit.”
Clare paused in her narrative to light another cigarette. Her smile, her expression, Irene noticed, was faintly resentful.
“Being good Christians,” she continued, “when dad came to his...
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WatchJohnny Gill, “Rub You the Right Way.”
The hotness of this song is only slightly offset by the Gumby-style fade JG is rocking.
Holy shiny outfits, Batman! And what a remarkable repertoire of sex faces he has!
abbyjean asked: i got into hip hip in 1997ish, and am much better versed in west coast than east coast. i feel like knowing more about history would both be interesting and would increase my appreciation of current stuff. is there any way to do this other than to just listen to everything BIG and wutang ever recorded?
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Hey, I was thinking that I really needed some help with procrastinating. Wanna ask me something?
In other news, Dear Coke Talk has been really shitty recently.
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page-seven asked: I see you're a Bay Area hip-hop head. Well, I'm a Brooklyn hip-hop head, so I'm not sure Oakland qualifies, but here's my question: I consider Hieroglyphics album 3rd Eye Vision to be one of the most slept on albums in hip-hop. Agree or disagree? If you haven't heard it, I guess you answered my question.
I just realized that I have 15 unfinished draft posts. I don’t see myself finishing any of them.
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Dear God,
Another Golden Girl? Why?
Signed,
- [lowendtheory]
“Arizona has a long record of robbing working people in order to provide a...”
– Paul Ortíz, “Arizona’s New Laws: A Way to Secure Cheap Labor?”
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Texas cops mistake actual weed for marijuana,... →
Texas officers ultimately spent hours laboring to tag and remove up to 400 plants from a city park, discovering only after a battery of tests that they had been sweating over mere Horse Mint, a member of the mint family — effectively turning their ambitious drug bust into mere yard work.
The plants, which bear very few aesthetic similarities to cannabis, were reported by an unnamed youth...
I am dealing with the most hilarious* and absurd professor-related drama.
I know that it’s difficult to practice what you preach, tenured folk, but I need y’all at least to look like you’re trying.
*euphemism.
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Supreme Court Miranda Ruling: Suspects Must... →
You know, just when you think that the youths are all messed up with their eye vodka and all that, you realize that this is the example the fucking standard being set for them.
Young people 'drinking' neat vodka through their... →
I don’t understand.