February 2011
36 posts
Some of ya'll liberal white people are going to be...
lfnt:
well, somebody had to say it. shoot.
January 2011
80 posts
“We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power; on the...”
– Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Volume I
I’ve decided to blog some of my favorite excerpts from the texts on my qualifying lists — in an attempt to make this process less harrowing.
(via sapagitan)
looking forward to your posts sapagitan!
• • • low end theory: “No one knows quite how the... →
lowendtheory:
“No one knows quite how the growth of the multiracial population will change the country. Optimists say the blending of the races is a step toward transcending race, to a place where America is free of bigotry, prejudice and programs like affirmative action.” (my bold)
lol: you’d think these three things are all FORMS OF OPPRESSION and EQUIVALENT. it’s all quite telling about...
From the Editors of Middle East Report:... →
Amidst the hand wringing in the mainstream media over Obama’s “limited options” in Egypt, through whose Suez Canal cruise oil tankers and the warships of the US Fifth Fleet, the truth is that the entire debate over democracy promotion in the Arab world and greater Middle East has been one long, bitterly unfunny joke....
curate: So racism against Arabs is shutting down... →
curate:
So racism against Arabs is shutting down the American mind once again. And all my friends must turn to Al Jazeera English to get the soul of the story: that these events are electrifying to Arabs everywhere, a heroic mobilization. And not only to Arabs. When ElBaradei says, I salute the youth for…
• • • low end theory: “White femininity which, in... →
lowendtheory:
“White femininity which, in the antebellum South, works as an aesthetic representation of gender at the cost of almost total disembodiment of white women, functions as a central defining moment of white dominance, as visceral allegory of an unassailable white gentility. This in turn is made possible by ascribing to black female slaves a status of pure flesh, so to speak (in...
“More urgently than perhaps any other scholar in the field, Spivak has warned us...”
– Parama Roy, on the lures of interdisciplinary scholarship, from Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India (UC Press, 1998).
Bhimsen Joshi, legendary Hindustani classical... →
Most Saturdays I awoke to Bhimsen Joshi playing on my father’s stereo. I was lucky enough to see him twice in concert, both formative experiences during my adolescence. Truly the passing of an icon.
irony of today: how to write in the language of the colonizer to get money to study the language of the colonized.
“Remember: just because you’re educated doesn’t mean you’re smart, and just...”
– Appa, responding to my frustrations about white Area Studies folks in the academic-industrial complex (via hobakshi)
“Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest...”
– Audre Lorde
To all the multiculturalists (in my life), read up.
Sepia Mutiny wants to celebrate the inauguration... →
Governor Nikki Haley’s inauguration last Wednesday felt like a glimmer of light in a political landscape darkened by the recent tragic mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona. Republicans, Tea Party supporters, Mama Grizzlies, crack-the-fiscal-whip types, Haley’s family, friends and community—all these people and others had reasons to feel happy on the occasion of her...
“Many of those who embark on a PhD are [people who have been trained to...”
– Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist (via literarypiano)
Sometimes you need to place the toxicity of dominant forms of rationality on blast. Or in brackets.
(via lowendtheory)
“And yet, while the Anglo-Indian sought to cultivate an aesthetics of distance...”
– Parama Roy, Alimentary Tracts: Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial.
You should really read this book.
Leslie Feinberg: While a Hostile Relative... →
onesmartblackboy:
Erykah Badu - Real Thing
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Julianne Hing on Arizona's Ethnic Studies ban →
lfnt:
lowendtheory:
I was entranced by that photo. And something about old Asian people stirs up feelings of automatic reverence. I blame my upbringing. The photo also reminded me just how deep Asian-Americans’ roots in this country go, and my ignorance of that history. Ethnic studies courses offer a version of this experience for all students of color, a chance to look at history and see...
