September 2010
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So Far,
thedisgruntledgradstudent:
haggers:
thecoastisclear:
There is not one person of color in my Master’s.
Welcome to the Dutch academe/academy/academia.
We suck.
Here’s the thing, though, some fields don’t attract minorities. I’m not sure I can think of a single person of African descent in my FIELD. There are two women of Hispanic descent in my department, and we have one Vietnamese woman...
August 2010
60 posts
Ground Zero’s Slave Graves →
Before the World Trade Center was even designed (with Islamic architectural elements, incidentally), the ground was indeed sacrosanct: The bones of some 20,000 African slaves are buried 25 feet below Lower Manhattan. As at least 10 percent of West African slaves in America were Muslims, it’s not out of bounds to extrapolate that ground zero itself was built on the bones of at least a few Muslim...
Israeli Education Ministry Approves New... →
Several months ago, a religious school in the illegal Israeli settlement of Immanuel was criticized for segregating white Jewish students from non-white Jewish students in classes.
Originally, the school was fined for this policy of racial segregation, because the school was state funded. Now, the Israeli education ministry has agreed with the white parents’ request to allow the school to...
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Some academic writing is so horrendously lacking in any writerly sensibility that it is embarrassing to read. Chill with the adjectives, people! They don’t make your sentences more descriptive! Stringing three or four adverbs together isn’t going to teach me anything but how annoyed I am with you! And I’ve already learned that! Thx!
Dark Matter: Is the critical capacity of queer politics dependent on its status as an oppositional discourse? Does social acceptance mean critical failure? What are the implications here for queer as a feature of popular or democratic political struggle?
Jasbir Puar: I would argue that the critical capacity of queer politics and queerness lies not in its status as an oppositional discourse but in...
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minous is pimps too.
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If anyone was going to unfollow me, this would be a good moment. I liked having 200 followers but i find the number 201 surprisingly unpleasant. I know one of y’all is looking for a reason or opportunity anyway.
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“There are, of course, many thousands of dangerous felons who can’t be trusted on...”
– Prison Without Walls - Magazine - The Atlantic (via notemily) (via novazembla)
I just want to note that I think that this is a terrible idea. The idea that you can “rehabilitate” people who have committed crimes by putting them under more intense surveillance is a sordid fantasy....
WatchOn organizing in the U.S. South. (via breedlovecaitlin)
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Black studies’ inordinate feeling for divisions and collections requires every last bit of texture, as an opening gambit held in reserve—the “para-ontological distinction” between blackness and the people (which is to say, more generally, the things) that are called black.
In abiding with this distinction, one might instantiate an adequate challenge to the voraciously instrumental...
Goodie Mob - Cell Therapy
Verse 2, Cee-Lo: Me and...
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ourtropes asked: Hey, thanks for following me. I like your Tumblr a lot. I noticed that we share an affinity for Frank Wilderson's work? You're at UC, yeah? Do you work with Frank? His stuff is amazing, and he's such a nice guy.
[Du Bois] averred: “[Slavery is] the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullifi- cation of the work of natural internal leadership[.] Negro leadership, therefore, sought from the first to rid the race of this awful incubus that it might make way for natural selection and the survival of the fittest.” So to all the other reasons that slavery was oppressive or irrational must be...
One day St. Peter sees three men arrive at the gates of paradise: a white man, a mulatto, and a black man.
“What do you want most in this world?” he asks the white man.
“Money.”
“And you?” he asks the mulatto.
“Glory.”
And as he turns toward the black man, the latter declares with a wide grin:
“I’m just carrying these...
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“Fifty years ago, Dr. Adam Clark [sic], the learned commentator of the Bible, from deep reading in the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Coptic languages, was forced to the conclusion that the creature which beguiled Eve was an animal formed like a man, walked erect, and had the gift of speech and reason. He believed it was an ourang-outang and not a serpent. If he had lived in Louisiana, instead of...
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You know how it is. You’re enjoying yourself, kicking back and relaxing at the pub or maybe at the library; or maybe you’re in class or just casually surfing the internet, indulging in a little conversation. The topic of the conversation is about a pertinent contemporary issue, probably something to do with a group of people who fall outside your realm of experience and identity. They’re also...
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“As late as the [nineteen-]sixties, in some areas of the country [U.S.] a person was considered ‘black’ by law or custom ir he had, or was suspected of having, any African ancestry, however remote and small in degree. At the same time, in dealing with Africa some anthropologists refused to classify any Africans as ‘Negro’ or ‘black’ if they were known to...
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“Why is it that aggression in the name of God shocks liberal sensibilities, whereas the act of killing in the name of the secular nation, or of democracy, does not?”
- Talal Asad, “Free Speech, Blasphemy, and Secular Criticism”
thedisgruntledgradstudent replied to your photo:This band is called The Black Atlantic. I’m just…
Maybe they’re Irish? Black Irish?
Looks like they’re Dutch:
The Black Atlantic is an acoustic indie pop band from Groningen, the Netherlands. Their music is an introspective and intimate affair of melancholy, folk influenced acoustic pop, relying heavily on vocal harmonies and melody on...
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Watchpage-seven:
“Cream of the Planet,” by Ski Beatz ft. Mos Def.
Off of Ski Beatz’s upcoming 24 Hour Karate School album. This is the Mos I like, not the rock-n-roll Mos. It’s just good old fashioned Mos, going in on a great beat.
“The mathematic, asiatic, black magic, rap cat, stay active, free captives.”
Um, who engineered this song? Mos needs to stick with whoever did because his...
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I Still Think Marriage is the Wrong Goal →