Mar

17

Bunch-O-Links All Privilege All The Time

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1. LaToya’s series of posts at Racialicious “Has Class Trumped Race?” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 3.5.

2. Education and Class blog on denial of Class Privilege.

3. Amp’s List of Privilege Lists

4. Original author’s discussion on the list and the blog responses.

5. The first place I saw this meme was at Gradmommy’s

6. The Virtual Origin of the class privilege meme–Quaker Class Blog

Feb

20

Bunch-O-Links

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1. Brownfemipower on Love.

2. Bald, Middle Aged White Men for Obama. (Found this via Field Negro)

3. You gotta watch this racist white lady over at Thought Merchant’s site; I saw it the first time it was on CNN. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I get comments like this left at this site.? I let a few through, and delete most of them.

4. Jay at Monclair Socioblog has a link to research on regional variations in language. For example, where do people use soda or pop? The midwest is definitely pop country. I still cant shake “pop,” and here in the northeast folks don’t know what I’m talking about. Another I thought was interesting was the difference in the usage of the terms tennis shoes, gym shoes, and sneakers. For some reason, when I lived in Detroit folks said gym shoes, and that is the only place I’ve heard that term. I also took note of the terms–goose bumps, goose pimples, and chill bumps. I think there is a racial component to that one–personally the only people I know who use the term chill bumps are African Americans, but the study doesn’t reveal racial differences in language patterns. Anyways (which Ive been told is also a Midwestern term–I guess they say “anyway” in the northeast), go check it out. It is really fun.

Oct

31

Bunch-O-Links

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1. Eric on the Discovery Channel’s white guys.

2. C.N. Le on Asian Americans and political loyalty. Well actually the post is about Bobby Jindal’s election, but I thought the last part was most interesting.

3. Donna of Silence of Our Friends is back! I couldn’t pick just one post, so you can go read all of them.

4. Field Negro makes in into the LA Times.

5. Kai on the White Liberal Conundrum.

6. Ann has updates on the victim in the West Virginia racist, rape, torture case.

7. Buster reports on Vladimir Putin’s desire to make his sports teams look less African.

8. P6 has a write up, breaking down some anti-Jena 6 articles.

9. Mandolin spent something like 10 years working on this post about the diversity of feminisms. (Ok, I’m embellishing a little. It may not have taken 10 years, but I know it took quite a while.)

10. Angry Black Woman wrote a post about National Public Radio, and got a response from them. I’m looking forward to her reaction to that letter. I have my own response formulated in my head. I’m curious what she’s feeling. For those who don’t know, I am a true lover of public radio, and I think her criticism is fair. Update: She actually did respond in the comments. I thought she was going to put up a full post.? That’s what I get for cherry picking comments.

Oct

8

Bunch-O-Links 10/8/07

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1. Pandagon has a review of a book about men who kill their female partners. The book is called Why Do They Kill?.

2. The Jena Six–It’s not just about the south. From Elle, PhD. Plus, Matttbastard has the ultimate stay-up-forever Jena round-up. Kevin also has a long Jena Round-Up check it out here.

3. Eric’s whine tasting experience, completely with an angry white lady.

4. Go buy the new desegregation stamp, and put it on your letters.

5. New site Racism Review by well know Professors Jesse Daniels and Joe Feagin

6. Field Negro takes on colorblindness.

7. Thought Merchant is promoting his new site. A few posts How Bill Clinton Hurt The Black Poor, and Hillary Might To Maybe Hes Not Black Enough What Ails Clarence Thomas Why Blacks Should Think Twice About Supporting Ron Paul.

8. Nazis Active in CT (Thanks to Steve)

9. A reader, Brett, in Kansas City sent me a good article from a local paper about the death of an integration pioneer: Donald Sewing. Sewing was the first to integrate the city of Fairway, Kansas. I don’t know if any historians are out there collecting data on this subject, but someone should be collecting the oral histories of our everyday integration pioneers. While the struggle for integration included Freedom Riders and other high profile demonstrations, the stories of everyday heroes like Mr. Sewing are being lost.

10. I also received a link from the administrators of the website IntoTheBox.tv They have a neat set of videos on gentrification of various neighborhoods in New York City.

Oct

4

More Nooses, More Blackface – Qui annus est?

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These incidents may result in follow-up posts, so consider this the first discussion thread.

First, nooses were left twice in Coast Guard Academy bags -? the first noose was? in the bags of a black cadet, and the second was in the bag of a female instructor AFTER diversity training resulting from the FIRST noose. Why do I think someone slept through the class? I guess nooses are now de rigeur for people with a warped sense of “humor.” Part of the problem may very well be “diversity seminars” that deal in platitudes and extremes instead of valid, practical ? information.

Then, as reported by Pam’s House Blend, Shakespeare’s Sister, and The Smoking Gun, a crew of likely-drunk white college students do improptu blackface (mudface?) and hold up 6 fingers (for the Jena 6) and otherwise strike thug poses. Hint: deleting offensive material from Facebook doesn’t make it disappear, folks… Have they not heard of YouTube? Or even, copy-save?

And here I thought the collegiate wave of blackface parties was SO 2006. All I can really add right now is not the righteous indignation I should feel, but a huffy, annoyed *sigh.* All the excuses for the Jena blackface so far are nothing I haven’t heard before. It’s the same playbook, the same justifications, the same denials. And I’m betting dollars to donuts that we’ll hear the same thing from anyone implicated in the Coast Guard case. I’m tired. I don’t want to be, but I am.

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ON a lighter note: in case anyone’s curious about the top (and knows no Latin), the post title is cribbed from a button I own: “Hostes aliengenii me abduxterant -? Qui annus est?”? (roughly: Aliens abducted me – what year is it?)

Sep

11

Bunch-O-Links 9/12/07

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1. A reader Dave, who has started his on sociology blog, posted a link about a great book of photographs (which to me is more like a visual ethnography) from a migrant farming community in northern Ohio. You should really go check out the book’s website and Dave’s blog.

2. Black at Michigan blog has come to an end, but Dumi has a new site since he’s no longer black at Michigan. I thought maybe he was going to call it Black in New York.

3. Temple 3 has revised this annoying lecture for young black men to point out it’s absurdity. Go check out his post: Jemele Hill’s Open Letter to Young White Men. I laughed so many times while reading this piece.

4. From Stephanie: Crimes Against Black Women: Four Cases

5. Professor Black Woman has beef the BitchPhD–Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. This is a good one; apparently BitchPhD is complaining about not having enough dough, even though her household income is, at the very least, twice the national median family income. Get out the violins folks.

6. Kanye West and 50 Cent (aka Half Dollar): the record industry creates the fakest feud ever; don’t believe the hype. And while you’re over at Jay’s, check out this video about Bill O’Reilly’s attack on Nas, the alleged gansta rapper. Would somebody please tell O’Reilly that if you can’t say a rapper’s name right then you look like a fool criticizing their music. Kinda reminds me of Dan Quayle’s attack on “Tupack.” If you can’t say the artist’s name right, don’t open your mouth.

Jul

18

Bunch-O-Links

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1. Barb at Lucky White Girl is discussing the Chiquita Banana Company.? You should really go read this; it puts an different spin on the term banana republic.

2. Lauren is writing about being a teenage mother.? (On another note: I won’t say much about the plagiarism charges related to the book? referenced in her post; I talked about that a long time ago.)

3. Pudgy Indian provides a comment on banning alcohol and pornography for aborigines in Australia.

4. C.N.? Le has a good graph from the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda, which highlights the transparency of several major news media outlets. But even more exciting…….he’s opened up comments. Yay!!

5. Elle is closely following the case of 6 Black Teenagers from Jena, Louisiana, who are being put on trial for a school fight, which started after an argument over a whites only shade tree.? I can’t imagine how many of my classmates would currently be incarcerated for fighting and giving other kids a black eye, if they were held to this standard.? Hell, I remember seeing one kid push another kid against a window that shattered, and I think they were suspended but not incarcerated. (You can read a good summary of the Jena story here.) (My friend Steve also emailed me about the Jena 6 Case, so he gets a shout out.)

I haven’t been doing much blog reading in the past couple days.? A hyperactive 7 year old is taking all of my energy, but here are a few links I’ve been collecting.? This is also an open thread.

Jun

28

Bunch-O-Links 6/28/07

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  1. River Vices, which is a blog about politics in my hometown; has a great post about the problem letting religious zealots control government and media.? The post is called Evanjekylls, which is how many southern Ohioans say Evangelicals.
  2. I get some link love, and I personal compliment from Tereza at anti-Racist Parent in an essay about predominantly white schools.
  3. Also, via Racialicious Carmen is providing a free e-book called “How To Be An Anti-Racist Parent”
  4. Migra Matters on the case of Alex and Yaderlin Jimenez? (a good education for people who don’t know about immigration policy, in particular the myth that marrying a US citizen is just going to solve all of your problems).
  5. (Saw this one on the news, and found it on a blog.)? A New Jersey High School decided to black out a yearbook photo of two male students kissing. I also though it was interesting that the two male students are black (One guy may have been a dark complexioned Latino, but he sure could pass for black in the picture.), and the school appeared to be predominantly white.1? Now before anybody says well they don’t need pictures of students provocatively kissing in the yearbook; I actually agree with that, but that would mean that they should have blacked out? the other pictures of heterosexual students kissing.? The gay black? couple got blacked out,2? and the heterosexual white couples were muggin’ it up all over the book.
  6. Reappropriate on Black/Korean tensions in the $54 million pants lawsuit. (By the way–the judge lost the case.)
  7. Hey, Bomani got engaged!? I should have found out about this sooner, but I admit that since he’s moved to more sports talk, I don’t visit as much, but at least he’s getting paid.
  8. Racists attacked Tariq’s Mosque, and the people at the Mosque need support.
  9. It looks like Isiah Washington may have gotten a raw deal.? He still appears to have made the homophobic slur, but not in the context as it was originally suggested.? Keith Boykin has the details. Here and Here

Ok, this is getting way too long, and it’s also an open thread, so feel free to add your two cents on other issues.

  1. I’m noting this not because I think racism was a motivator, but because people often treat gay and lesbian people of color as invisible [back]
  2. Ironic word choice? intended. [back]

May

24

Bunch-O-Links 5/25/07 (Also Open Thread)

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1. Chris Clarke has a Koufax worthy post about capitalism, gender, environmentalism,? and? quality of life movements over at Pandagon.?

2. Blue has an update on the Ashley X case.? Looks like someone may have violated the law. (Did I already put this up?)

3. Personal stories about abortion decisions.? Must reads for people who want to understand the abortion debate:

4. A critique of America’s Next Top Model (that is surprisingly not from Carmen Van Kerkhove ).

5. Monica has a post up about the divide between “women of color and women of no color.”? She’s relating it to her experiences in the romance writing field, but I also could resist linking to a post that ends up in a discussion of “gubmint cheese.”

May

1

Bunch-O-Links 5/1/07

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1. Harlow’s Monkey has two good posts.? If I had time, I would give a really long response to this one,? which offers a good critique of transracial adoption studies.? Then there is this response to the comment left on my site a while back.

2. When I was searching for posts on JR Warren, I ran across this interesting (exasperating)? post on the sexism and the ballroom scene.? Unfortunately, the discussion didn’t really do much of anything to address sexism, and the voices of women are completely absent in the discussion (unless there were a few women I was missing), but the tension between queer perspectives and feminist perspective is really apparent if you read between the lines.? I admire the author for bringing it, but unfortunately, the discussion was really depressing.? (If you don’t know about the ballroom scene; here’s a brief introduction.)

3. I want to travel to Britain and figuratively kick this black man’s butt.? You have to go listen to this clip Stephanie found; it’s disgusting.

4. Hugo responds to a question about disability with a discussion of “fitness.”? I felt like it was a really ableist response to the question at hand.

5. Afrobella on pop star Akon’s “humpfest” in Trinidad and Tobago.? He decided to have a dance competition that resulted in the winner being humped by him–the winner was a 14 year old girl. Ugh!

6. Angry Black Woman enters into the eternal Black vs. African American debate, with some good insights. I think Black has made a big come back–I tend to favor Black, but I think there are time when using the term African American is very important because it is connected with an ethnic distinction.

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