so, i’m using Stephen’s referrer log at http://downes.ca/referrers.htm
and this makes its way to the referrer page:
and that unblurred refferrer links to this address
www5.addfreestats.com/cgi-bin/showuni6.cgi
now what.
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AFLO quote of the day:
U.C.L.A. – University of Caucasians Lost in Asia
(commenting to my pointing out of the difference in perceptions between what “public” and “private” in higher ed imply outside and inside the U.S., citing UCLA as the prime example of what a “good” college in the U.S. is for koreans in Chile (given that it is a public university)
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mentioning the kuru
horizontal and vertical extentcase study
TSE
rasminss spongeform encaphelopathie
infection sicknessmad cow deasease is a kind of TSe
BSE -> food, cattle carcasses
preventingBSE agent become more virulent as it crossed species barriers
+ mathemin homozygots wild game feasting
hepatitis -> anonymous sexcollege campuses: high mobility
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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 wonder, though? with AMS being the main sponsor?
will rosenberg try to pay off back to the “colored camp”, so to say, in admin speech, after we (they?) maintained a neutral stand? what’s the deal with joi? with nick? do they talk to each other?
err.
too much speculating.
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the reason, it just occured to me, that i often refrain from expressing ideas on paper (or blogs) and instead keep on developing them – this is not strictly limited to papers/essays but extends to random thoughts as well – is because i recognize that once it is written/posted, it is intended to be read by an audience of some form. if no one is going to read it, then i will read it; that counts. insofar as i deal with often contradictory ideas within my head, i can let them sit there for a while and develop in their own dynamic intertextuality, add on new experiences and external text-producers, read, talk about it with other people, and when i feel like it’s ready to cum (uhuh, few metaphors touch upon heteronormative sensibilities better), i write some. a draft.
because once on paper, althought there may be many ways of intepreting it, for each individual instance of interpretation, e.g. one reader, or me myself re-reading it (because i don’t usually read my own papers more than once, once they are done) and despite all what weatherford claims thoughts in your head are just that, thoughts, unless you write them down or act upon it, it’s imperative to let them stir so that they may make sense with me to start with.
so there.
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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 studies conference. rachleff: don’t need to go to all of them, but that would be nice. write something creative and tie it together with the class materials.
Bamboozled
Will: issues of working middle class and racial representation
Peter: agreed, but the two issues not related causally.
Zach: capitalism creates racial caegories by need (black athletes)
ref: Augusto Bael (theater of the oppressed)
church (ft Spike lee)
is the movie a self-criticism?
basketball
born black in SA is being political
Alex F: careful in process of reclamationcreation of representation
appropriation -> make money
how to connect material culture
know to resisteric la black minstrelsy-> post industrialization
white working class, use of slavery as a reference point
“at least I’m not a slave”
strong denial — (needs) –> reinforcement of perfoming the other
30’s Dubios wrote a bio of John Brown20th C Baudeville & Broadway, black people playing minstrelsy
Chapelle Show
Lily L: hegemony: marginalize people’s participation, compromise peronsal for greater goalsZach: even in the black communities it is a tbaoo to go into “culture” fields
Alex Rubinstein: structures of white supremacy alienate communties
Alex F: (disagrees) families follow capital regardless
Tennis Guy
AFLO: but the colored/white divide in “artists”?
E. hist.
mau mauRachel: david wolpes & spike lee
Alessandra: Mandela on oppressive systems cannot be reformed, nikey commercials
women not part of movementsPeter: watch 4 girls, susan rose park
AFLO: Delacroix assisted the process of PAC criticizing the ANC
Will: p.20, Mau Mau reactionary masculinity women burning passeswolpe -> single women in towns
Eugene Debs: sick Salvatore with Debs Hopes to go back what people reactE. Hutchinson: Mandela is in prison, black consciousness -> young people come to him
Rachel: Mandela’s position as a listener, heoized, did the PAC leave out of will or were they expelled from the movements?
Alex Rubinstein: 1 million dollar corruption case, ANC is sinking
Peter: last week we agreed capitalism has a role in white supremacy, has anyone challenged that?
Camilo paris: b link,
Patrick Bond is a white american who came to south africa for a citizenship
Alex Rubinstein: W-A-R? Move your stretch
journalist’s account in SA
different exp
need for violent protest
how the black leadership was constructed intot the white government (homelands)
use capital to alienate peopleRachel: skilled/unskilled divide out of question in south africa
P: in the 70’s two big issues: racism and vietnam. one group said those were “mistakes”
issue: to understand the “mistakes” as integral part of the U.S. society
P: what do we mean by “liberal”? approach to capitalism/racism
Jared: National Liberation as a paradox
Nicole: alternate systems. masculinity as part of a package
Roladn McKay: Frederickson, Herrenvolk DemocracyAlyssa: p.121 dialectical materialism, but Mandela doesn’t take on that anymore further in his actions
WIll Clarke: National liberation, communist party black belt
nation of islam in the ’30s.P: Mandela’s operating from a minority status. Pan-African nationalism
Will: inside/outside the system. quote: within the system is the hierarchies of competition
same situation in the u.s. capitalismmalaysia
too much crime, too much work ethic
adanise, chinese(are stus less dev?)
both movements from challenging capitalism
are they engaging capitalism?
inefficacy
oft overlooked
shana, economic and social agency
sam great to move “up” sustains capitalism
safety/ scarcity
self-sufficiency
eti lewis “home sphere” (church)
Julia: Tarzan Ujama, 1950-60sno cognitive diffence between “reform” and “revolution”
Sophie: Mandela’s otrobro not solely as reflection -> intended to soothe allies
compassionate to oppressor (prison guard)
R1 jaito: runs the workshopPR: tip
def what is a liberal via park?
cart transcripts -> only where to talk + nachie
Nkrumah, Lumumba,
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Condi says: “I think we have to view, at this point, the government of Venezuela as a negative force in the region” foxnews.com/story/0,2933,146472,00.html
LatinoPundit wonders: “I can’t decide.” latinopundit.com/latino/archives/002146.html
I think: The Man is trying to gather Star Wars fandom support!
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February 4, 2005
To all members of the Macalester Community, I’m writing to inform you of some changes that you may have already noticed within our community. Through my tenure as president here, I have attempted to present myself as a straight talker, I hope that this letter will be understood as an example of my ongoing commitment to open dialogue and civic discourse.
You are all probably aware of some changes we’ve had to make in the college’s admissions policies in order to preserve Macalester’s financial stability in these trying economic times. Unfortunately, the end of need-blind admissions is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Effective immediately, Spring 2005 classes are being postponed indefinitely due to diversion of funds to (what we hoped would be) more lucrative endeavors. In the interest of full disclosure, I’d like to offer the community several examples of where, upon abandoning what was an already shaky commitment to liberal ideals in higher education, we’ve found it appropriate to place our funds:
My salary: According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the total compensation received by my predecessor was $363,117. I can only imagine I earn more than this, given basic cost-of-living increases; I will disclose this salary pending computation by Danny Kaplan. I’m just an English major; I can’t count that high.
My house, which was purchased for me at an untold cost by the college last summer. You’ve probably seen it, sitting on the comer of Summit and Fry, though I imagine few have you have actually been in it – in the cutthroat environment of college fundraising, only the highrollers get that privilege. In fact, it’s a college policy that the only non-millionaires allowed in the house are the caterers and other house servants, who frankly could never make enough money to compensate for the abuse heaped upon them by my wife Carol. In any event, the house was fully renovated in the past year (the roof alone cost over $200,000), and includes a large yard and a three-car garage, which gives me space for storage, accommodating my family’s unused belongings nicely around our luxury SUVs. According to David “Wheaton, one of the benefits of the house, besides the fact that it is enormous, is that it “provides more flexibility for housing a president’s family.” Trust me – my wife and I have needs you can’t even begin to understand.Those large blow-up dolls outside my inaugural party last spnng. I can’t explain their purpose either, except to say that they are the marker of a high-class institution. You may notice that size seems to be a common thread in my tenure at this institution – big salary, big house, big phallic symbols outside the Campus Center – but I assure you I am not in anyway overcompensating for personal insecurities. In conclusion, I apologize for any financial missteps that may have been taken by me or any other such overcompensated (that is, overpaid) college administrator. To assuage your concerns, let me assure you that Danny Kaplan is designing a plan to get the college running again; our target time for this is Fall 2005. Once classes restart, you may notice some subtle changes in classroom demographics and, commensurate with this, classroom dynamics. Increasingly, Macalester is being populated by the kinds of pnvate- school East Coast children of wealth (such as myself) who are your least favorite classroom co-constituents, dominating discussion to the detriment of others in the room not of similarly privileged backgrounds. By the time classes start again, these students will be the only ones talking, because they’ll comprise the bulk of the class more than they already do. The important distinction will be that not only do they think they own the world, they now have full institutional support behind them. As a college, Macalester has made a strong statement in favor of the entrenchment of class privilege. They have been emboldened; you have been silenced.
Lastly, my administration is in the planning stages for a new fundraising organization we intend to call the Rosenburglars; the purpose of this committee will be to raise money that will go straight into my own bank account. Once I have a sufficient amount, I intend to try to use it to buy back my soul.
Your devoted President,
Brian Brian Rosenberg
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handout:
http://wiki.adelantemac.org/Anthropology_in_a_Nutshellbritish don’t like “culture” -> colonial mission, maintaining
french -> things inside the head, rationalismfoucault, levi strats -> like comets! they come and go
LTAM new anthro, no impactschool training is system-adaptive,
thoughts extensionsnotes on the handout:
culture -> cultivate
ethnography=cultural anthro
ethnology=comparative cross-cultural study of human cultures
fight against racism: culture over race, public sphere
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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, immigrantsPuerto Rico, intermediaries, the work of women, produce ginger, used for the working class (ginger bread) in Shakespeare’s England
tiva arriving out of africa -> geographical/racial?
Railroad women
labor movement, struggles as anyone elseantiwar activist
67 left PR
denied tenure in UPR
76 Berkeley CA
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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.
(more…)
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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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Medical Anthropology class,
this is the coverage on the study of high school romantic and sexual networks that I mentioned today in class. This is the link to the paper:
Chains of Affection: The Structure of Adolescent Romantic and Sexual Networks
Peter S. Bearman, Columbia University
James Moody, Ohio State University
Katherine Stovel, University of Washington
www.sociology.ohio-state.edu/jwm/chains.pdfOhio State University has a press release summarizing the findings:
RESEARCHERS MAP THE SEXUAL NETWORK OF AN ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL
researchnews.osu.edu/archive/chains.htmas I explained in class, the paper studies sexual behavior of jefferson high school students and how they form a network of sorts, that sprawls fairly uniformly compared to adult sexual behavior. They do so via a number of confidential surveys conducted in 1995. Researchers concluded that
unlike many adult networks, there was no core group of very sexually active people at the high school. There were not many students who had many partners and who provided links to the rest of the community. (Grabmeier citing Moody’s conclusion, in the press release above)
I saw this paper mentioned in zamzzi.com, a south corean blog loosely linked to an online sex toys/supplies store maintained by the same person. The posting, in turn, was referring to a news article in NaverNews [네이버뉴스] and originally developed by Chosun.com [조선일보].
This is how it was intially portrayed in the south corean press:
Caption: Sexual Relationship Strucutre of Jefferson High Students. Blue=male students, Red=female students. “2건” stands for “2 cases”. “63쌍” stands for “63 couples”.
Source: 윤희영, chosun.com 25/01/05. 288명이 性관계로 연결: 미국고교생 실태 표본조사 832명중 126명만 ‘1대1’
[Heeyung, Yoon. 288 people were sexualy networked: only 126 out of 832 high school students were in a “1 on 1 relationship” in a U.S. high school students sample research.]
article: www.chosun.com/international/news/200501/200501250338.html
same artice: news.naver.com/news/read.php?mode=LSD&office_id=023&article_id=0000109820It is of interest how this chart was initially pictured in the paper:
From the American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 100, No. 1. “Chains of affection: The structure of adolescent romantic and sexual networks,” Bearman PS, Moody J, Stovel K.south corean blog entry commenting on the story: zzamzi.com/tt/index.php?pl=195
another blog entry: Roland Piquepaille. The Sexual Network of a High School primidi.com/2005/01/27.htmlIt struck me how several reactions to the coverage at naver.com (which caters to a young readership, mostly in their late 20’s) were expressing “disappointment” (huh?) at how far “sexually perverted” the U.S. society was from what they had imagined it to be. There was abundant attack on the existence of homosexuals and “cheap girls” as portrayed by the chart. In part, I think, this has to do with how the study was portrayed (the subtitle was emphasizing how “only” 13% of the population was in a single relationship) The more conservative chosun.com did not receive any readership reaction.
zamzzi.com’s article gave it a more positive spin, focusing on the fact that the research suggested a honest solution to the realities of high schools in the u.s. Readership reaction were on a similar tone as well.
anyway, I wanted to point out that the professor’s observation that “when you engage in sexual intercourse with a person, STD-wise this implies engaging in sexual intercourse with every single person that that person has had an intercourse with, and in turn with every person that those people have had an intercourse with, and so forth” was portrayed in a dramatically more graphic fashion with the blue dots/red dots chart. Ah, this has nothing to do with the elections (I think)
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Assignment: Write a one-page introduction of yourself to a specific, prospective employer or graduate school.
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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 languageAfrikaans develops not to be understood by masters? but why don’t they speak it then?
violence / peaceful resolution
Duck
1. lower middle class
2. tails cat the NManning Marable: Race is the modality through which class is expressed.
Nothing but a man – filmmakers are white
violence: Tactially to attract (white) sympathyevery slave had to be zambo =//= need to be tamed?
Lily: nothing but a man “north” as a safe place
Pathe: Film noir detective, anti hero (Rosenberg?)
Priest
Social history -> women making “stuff” possible
movement history(leola Johnson) extradiotigenic personality
on Abby Lincoln 1963Jesse Goldman on Black Marxism, Cedric Robinson
freedommovements.blogspot.com/2005/02/linking-racism-and-capitalism-robinson.html
-Theoretical background: racism & capitalism -> formation of europe
racism predates capitalism -> influences
immigratory movements in Africa care about work places of works
going to another place slavs as natural slaves
capitalism comes from a social order (racism)
capitalis is a process of “heteroginization”Zach Cheema on Harold Wolpe
freedommovements.blogspot.com/2005/02/harold-wolpe-capitalism-and-cheap.html
(P: racial and labor control in tension)
white domination
1. capitalist -less pay >>>> anti-capitalis (less efficiency)
2. af-am / blacks in SA
af-am considered inferior
sa considered equals
Wolpe is fixating in making Apartheid separate from segregation
strategies to create breaches among black/white workersJonathan Fredor
Cooper. black ideology
songs of Zion Tiembo
(P: Cooper doesn’t like Frederickson)
doesn’t walk much about U.S.
criticizes on mechanical comparison, too much white perspective (no black agency)
interested in how religions and ideology worksShula Marks
freedommovements.blogspot.com/2005/02/white-supremacy-review-shula-marks.html
-highest agers of white supremacy, John S.
marks is SA historian
doesn’t like comparative historical method
generalizing is bad
not enough info
George Frederickson had historical inaccuraciesPeter: comparative history is only done through a U.S. lens, and when you look at Safundi for example, more broad comparisons (brasil, etc) is done
I brought up racism and racialism from Anthony Appiah, and said Robinson is opposed to Frederickson.
group discussion
(what makes a slave) christians are enslaved too, white slaves
1900-1942
rights in he americas
colored in SA, frederickson p.133Alessandra Williams on Manning Marable
freedommovements.blogspot.com/2005/02/how-capitalism-underdeveloped-black.html
phenotype condition
black migration
common worldview was destroyed
white working class gave up
George Lukacs -> racism
whitenes -> took hold off of whiteness
(P: prof of Af-Am in Columbia)Leonard Thompson -> good overview
freedommovements.blogspot.com/2005/02/thompson-history-of-south-africa.html- segregation of homelands
-blacks created their own economic world, niches
-ANC formationMarable & Homeland LEadership
Lily on Phil Bonner
http://freedommovements.blogspot.com/2005/02/bonner-delius-posel-shaping-of.html
Apartheid’s genesis in the 20th C
processes of social history
(district 6 was bulldozed after 1946)peter: per books, demographic (b/w in sa/am)
smilaritiesA. Randolph: WWII as a war on racism, going to DC asking for equal jobs
no jobs! poor jobsSA there are jobs, no political power
structures & mandela/king
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Err, I sent this to you via email, then I recalled I had a BLOG (uh…)
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Andrew,
so, I try to comment on yourBlantant misuse of a paper that I wrote
andrewsw.com/news/index.php?p=913and your comment spam detector thinks I am a spammer. I logged into your blog, with no luck. ):
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First, my condolences.
I’ll vent a bit on something similar that happened recently in the south korean blogging circles regarding a web-based RSS feeding service (Daum RSSNet, rss.daum.net) that benchmarked bloglines.
Something very similar to what was happening to you was done by Daum, and people complained their names were not showing up in the website, etc etc. Do you know what some bloggers suggested in a counterargument?
1) That it was actually good for them because they were getting publicity (how?)
2) That following the copyleft tradition, every single blogger on earth should let their stuff flow freely across the internet.
3) That blogs were designed to be publicly open since they had features such as trackbacks and RSS feeding, and if people didn’t like them (if they didn’t want to be widely publized at the whims of corporations) that they should move over closed, ActiveX based, fucked up private community CMS platforms.Bastards.
Yup, I just bitched about yellow peoples’ problems in front of a white guy. In english. Sue me.Ok, I’m done bitching.
Now back to your case.
Credit: TechRepublic is being an ass, but doesn’t it look like the problem in the Michigan State U Boad of Trustees? I mean, Tech Republic saw it there, it was listed as authored by MSUBT, and so they gave credit. They
might not have found your version first. Didn’t they do all that was expected for fair use standards? It seems like MSUBT need to rectify whatever they did with your paper.Login: that’s messed up. I’m not sure if that violates any existing law, though. Of course it violates common sense, but customary law doesn’t apply intranational, or?
Public domain: I just don’t get it that TechRepublic calls your paper a “white paper” and that “they are publicly available on the internet” for the sole fact that your paper is avaliable at YOUR website. There should be a
semantic difference between the POSSIBILITY of going public and the FACT of being public, the two of them being usually linked together, but not necessarily requiring each other.So your papaer is factualy public, but that doesn’t necessarily imply you are giving it free rein (in particular, to be used for commercial or pseudocommercial purposes) in terms of distribution. Some people confuse the two. Some people, blatantly disregard the difference and question back, “what’s wrong with what I did?”
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So today at del.icio.us , this is a site that has been linked 670+ times:
Glyn Hughes’ Squashed Philosophers
The books which defined the way The West thinks now
Condensed and abridged to keep the substance, the style and the quotes, but ditching all that irritating verbiage
www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/There’s nothing new in making condensed versions of the classics. What is different here is that these are neither the opinion of one person nor mere extracts. Instead, each has begun with a very wide analysis of quotations, citations and, especially, past examination papers (including UK A-Levels back to 1976), to establish which passages, which phrases, which lines, which words and which ideas, are generally considered the most important
www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/about.htmThree words:
ugh
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no somos los minnesotanos los únicos que reclamamos por el frío. es la misma cuestión en nueva york, florida, en los trece estados. y las expresiones son las mismas, igualitas. por cierto: cada uno de esos comentarios están bien humorosos
bigpinkcookie.com/2005/01/23/ill-just-stop
ah, encontré su blog referenciado por oneband.80port.net/wp porque según él cristina era quien terminó poniéndole el nombre a wordpress. hay un running joke en la wp dev forums que “wordpress” les encanta a las ladies. ¿será por ella?
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the biggest problem (as in setting up various kinds of media for the SOLE PURPOSE of exposing promotional stuff received through email) facing ¡Adelante!, and other small organizations, is that they distribute OPEN information (events) in a CLOSED environment (emails) that are limited in their expository potential given they can ONLY propagate through a forwarded email.
aha.
we need set up a public email account.
like this groups.yahoo.com/group/adelantemac2
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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 ancestr are likely to differn in culture, status, and power” (p.xii)
racists, then, make the claim that those are natural and bypass historical ciscumstances. white supremacists claim tha these differences favor whites.
frederickson introduces white supremacy as an alternative, attitudinal term to racism, while leaving racism to the realm of the epistemic.
the first reason is that in everyday discourse no one admits to being a racist anymore, because it has been conflated with a multitude of overlapping, and differing, meanings. it has been a blind spot for criticism. many administrators in south africa still admit to being white supremacists, however. alabama had a state motto praising the virtues of white supremacy.
second reason is that scholars can deal more purely with the study of white supremacists practices, without getting stuck at accusing and pointing out the moral wrongs of racism.
(so both reasons given by frederickson are of a methodological nature, not by some theoretical reason, such as the one given by appiah.)
kwame anthony appiah claims in “in my father’s house” that racialism is the mode of thought where racial differences exist. then racism, is the judgement involving the placement of blacks and other colored peoples in an inferior relationship to the white race. he argues this in ch.1, “the invention of africa”, p.13, while trying to make a case for Crummell. i think he also mentions DuBois as an example of racialist thought.
so frederickson seems to be borrowing on appiah’s theoretical framework of the epistemic aspect and activist (?) aspect of racism. but they differ in terminology
appiah -> concept -> frederickson -> public discourse
racialism -> epistemic division of races by attributes -> racism -> racism
racism -> black and other races are inferior -> white supremacy -> racismnow, rachleff briefly presented the idea of racial prejudice and racial discrimination as sub-branches of appiah’s “racism”, i don’t where he brought it from (his own?).
appiah -> rachleff -> notion -> frederickson -> public discourse
racism -> racial prejudice -> to claim some form of hierarchical racial order -> (no term) -> racism (reverse discrimination if the agent is not white)
racism -> racial discrimination -> to execute out racial prejudice, e.g. school segregation -> white supremacy -> racism (terrorist, if agent is not white)now maybe racial discrimination and the rest of the concepts needs to be separated, because racial discrimination is a form of praxis, while the others are forms of cognition?
back to the book..