October 2009
10 posts
“Well, again we get the very tame “intermingling,” followed by the awkward...”
– Joe at racismreview.com, writing about the absurdly tame, whitewashed language in an NYT article describing Michelle Obama’s heritage.
My life in October
Here’s a partial list of what I’ll be going through this month - some items will drop off, other as-yet-unidentified items will join the group. This is the first and largest section of my Urban Studies comprehensive exam reading list, which is the second of my three fields: I spent the last two months dashing through a long and invigorating Critical Race Theory list; November holds the...
“OK, but the thing is, most American cultural idiosyncrasies that adversely...”
– Adam Serwer, in response to Ta-Nehisi Coates’s piece about obesity in working-class and poor people. Coates argued that poor folks cope with hardship through enjoyment of food, and described negative coping mechanisms like overeating as “more American than hood.”
Today was supposed to be productive.
But after a lunchtime yoga class I can’t seem to get it together. I’m just sitting here staring out the window at a very gray day. I need something nice to look at. Post something pretty, folks. Too much depressing news today.
September 2009
19 posts
“I believe in using the most effective means to change, but I also believe in...”
– Tami, in “Marginalized folks shouldn’t always have to be the ‘bigger persons’”
“And so when Obama says that we should connect the practical issues of...”
– Jamelle, writing at PostBourgie about the continuing importance of anti-racist work.
“In order to move forward in the push for national health care reform, what we...”
– Jessie at racismreview.com
Considering the limits of racial alliance, and... →
Hilarity from conversationswithdad.tumblr (not me)
Me: Did you get a chance to listen to Drake yet?
Dad: No, I've been listening to the Fisk Jubilee singers.
Me: What even is that? Sounds like homos in bowties.
Dad: It's from the 1870s.
Me: Well they had homos in bowties in the 1870s.
Dad: More like ex-slaves in bowties.
Me: Oh.
“Everyone wants to be reassured that racism is over, and that the only people who...”
– Adam Serwer, writing for The American Prospect
“White Americans are racists who have created what they call free markets that...”
– Rush Limbaugh not making sense, as quoted by RacismReview.com
Park(ing) Day - wherein we pretend our streets... →