Category: race
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Transitions – I've Got the Light of Freedom
transitions-ive-got-the-light-of-freedom.doc Payne, Charles M. 1995 Transitions In I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle. Pp. 284-316. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. I’ve Got the Light of Freedom the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle Chapter Ten Transitions Before the summer project last year…
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May Day 2006 and the Gulf War
Before hitting Wilshire and Western at 4:00 pm, we are sitting in the lounge watching Fox News, which is broadcasting live rallies in Downtown and Santa Ana. That looks pretty hard to match up. Then we think of our plan for today. Ever heard CNN’s of live Gulf War broadcasting? Iraqui scud missile headquarters used…
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Colorado College American Cultural Studies External Review
http://www.macalester.edu/americanstudies/index.htm REVIEW OF THE AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES PROGRAM AT COLORADO COLLEGE Professor Duchess Harris participated in assessing the curricular scope of the American Cultural Studies Department at Colorado College and offered recommendations as to how it can be developed as a program. (Review downloadable as PDF)
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Roberto Rodriguez. As America's Latino diaspora evolves, so does the field
Roberto Rodriguez As America’s Latino diaspora evolves, so does the field Founded some 30 years ago and at one time believed to be on the verge of extinction, the field of Chicano studies is constantly expanding. As Puerto Rican and Cuban communities grew in the United States in the 1960s and ’70s, so did the…
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[DEBATE] peter waterman. International Marxist Embarassment Month?
From: peter waterman To: “debate: SA discussion list” Cc: Virginia Vargas telefonica.net.pe Date: Apr 12, 2005 3:20 AM Subject: [DEBATE] : International Marxist Embarassment Month? If we need this kind (See Below) of gushing, this kind of emoting, this kind of identification between Trotskyism/Geuvarismo and particular contemporary individuals or parties, then I really think we…
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first I see this article on the pervasive…
first, I see this article on the pervasive effects of Walmart in the city http://www.urbancartography.com/2005/02/die_walmart_die.html and, a commentor had told the writer to not be so blatant about his own “biases”, and mocked at the fact that his google adsense (content-specific text advertising) was showing ADS of Walmart. Indeed, next to the article criticizing Walmart,…
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Superstructures and subaltern practices in the ANC and the SCLC
Fredom Movements Essay 1 February 23, 2005 Andrew Ancheta Yongho Kim In his controversial book Black Marxism, Cedric Robinson argues that “the roots of Western racism took hold in European civilization well before the dawn of capitalism” (Kelley, 2000: 12). In a differing approach from George Frederickson to the overlaps of racism and capitalism in…
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after watching Malcolm X so when chicano activists…
after watching Malcolm X so, when chicano activists say “we did not cross the border, the border crossed us”, are they borrowing from Malcolm X’s saying in the NYC church, “we did not come to Plymouth, Plymouth came to us”? the “did you know brother minister what so and so did before going to heaven?…
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The Black Body as a feared Necessity in the Post-Industrial Urban Economy
response paper to the Sixth Annual African American Studies Conference at Macalester College Freedom Movements February 16, 2005 Yongho Kim In her keynote speech Democracy and Captivity, Joy Ann James argues that the prison-state constitutes the institution through which neoslave narratives are embodied in the United States. A neoslave narrative, James argues, is “a recycling…
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[email] The Mantra of Multiculturalism, two years later
Adelante! and cultural org leaders, two and half years ago, leaders at orgs of students of color congregated and drafted The Mantra of Multiculturalism, a 13-point document delineating strategies to advocate for multiculturalism in the face of a hostile Macalester administration. Of course, this is my interpretation. Take a look at the document yourself:
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memos, Joy Ann James Keynote Speech
Duchess Harris quote: (not exact) I’m the chair of American Studies, we deal with comparative Racial Formations and we are excited to be part of the curriculum ow! existential crisis! African American Studies Conference Incarcerated Intelligence: African Americans and the Prison Industrial Complex macalester.edu/americanstudies/conference/ Joy Ann James keynote speech: Democracy and Captivity memos James shows…
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so andrè carrington is coming to mac on…
so andrè carrington is coming to mac on the af-am conference, if i heard it well in class! so tawanda was saying back in spring: you won’t bring him NOW. the school better pay him some heavy bucks if you plan on bringing a NYU scholar, after messing with him while being an undegrad. i…
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Bamboozled, Mandela, and the Dialectics of Racism-Capitalism. class notes
AMST394-11 Freedom Movements. Class notes, Feb 7 music played: Mbongan Nugema. how to find articles on Safundi, which spans a broader spectrum of research done on sa www.safundi.com/members/login.asp . rachleff )the dept?) purchased a semester-long access for the whole class. username: school, pass: here will announced first diversity weekend meeting. thursday 9pm, cc215 african american…
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aurora levins morales
aurora levins morales talk, 12:00pm sense of history -> resistance destruction of memory -> subjugation (makes oppressedness seem like a natural aspect of the peoples lives) self as an counterexample “adwomenster (sp)” Nelson Myers 1898, spanish war, great plains, arabian peninsula, immigrants Puerto Rico, intermediaries, the work of women, produce ginger, used for the working…
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RE: Freedom Movements Technology
EDIT: good reference en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_software blah, I got tired of writing this. kind of pointless, anyway, now that the blog is up there. it’s just another semester of classes.
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film notes, bamboozled
is Delacroix playing the west indian? misrep people? why is his room (the white boss) full of “negro” stuff? “variety skit show” boss at the middle, evaluators to the side, the performer in the middle is he wearing the arab stuff on purpose? urgency/diff
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movements, notes. capitalism
class notes. jan 31. freedom movements fr nights, Golden town Mapantsula visual imagery thrown out of the window Themba “John” speaking Afrikaans english had subtitles (also aimed at non-english speaking native audience) 1976 Soweto’s school students boycott Afrikaans language Afrikaans develops not to be understood by masters? but why don’t they speak it then? violence…
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white supremacy, racism, racialism
in “White Supremacy: a comparative sutyd in american and south african history”, frederickson makes the distinction between white supremacy and racism. first, racism is too ambiguous. second, racism is an essentialistic mode of thought that gives racial attributes to given populations. (frederickson characterizes them as “the fact that populations groups that can be distinguished by…