December 2010
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NAACP and LULAC: Texas Education System Violates... →
The complaint letter argues that the new curriculum standards for American history greatly underemphasize the historical importance of slavery and discrimination in creating the contemporary U.S. social structure and misrepresent the history of the civil rights movement such that “white benevolence” rather than minority citizen action is seen as leading to social progress for...
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Aishwarya Rai may sue Elle India for whitening her... →
bollywoodsuperstar: also see this.
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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“They drank tea and diligently read the New York Times together, including the...”
– Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss I’m presenting on this novel at a conference in a few weeks and can’t wait to discuss it!
Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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“The man standing in the shade of the rubber trees with coins of sunshine dancing...”
– Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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'The Sartorialist' Visits New Delhi
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Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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“Conservative responses to hyper-sexual popular culture usually involve an...”
– Tricia Rose, The Hip Hop Wars
Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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“Water slips down a concrete wall. In the plaza, she touches a metal table, a...”
– Meena Alexander, “Fifth Avenue Plaza,” which is part of the larger poem “Rumours for an Immigrant.”
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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Community is in the Running for Best Show of the... →
Well…because it is.
Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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My friend Thumbs on Tabitha’s Salon Takeover: “I’m Tabitha! I’m a fierce bitch here to redo your salon because you guys suck.” “I’m the salon owner. EVERYTHING IS COOL WE DON’T NEED YOU!” “We’re the salon employees! Some of us have an attitude problem! Others cry in the back because of how bad the salon is.” And then...
Dec 24th
After GOP Blocks DREAM Act, Where is Immigration... →
lfnt: Roberto Lovato (my people!) of Presente.org speaks to Democracy Now about the DREAM Act and what should happen now that the Senate blocked it.
Dec 24th
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“Inferential racism, in general, is “invisible” because it is not...”
– Vijay Prashad, The Karma of Brown Folk After witnessing an overt, malicious expression of antiblack racism by a desi man recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about this chapter. Condescension and inferential racism slips into overt racism all too often, but it’s too simple to dismiss...
Dec 24th
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“One way I would fix the country is to create a program that focuses on ending...”
– Professor Tricia Rose (via brownpeople) I’m reading Rose’s The Hip Hop Wars now and can’t put it down!
Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Conservative Council of Citizens Boycots Thor Film... →
In response to the casting Idris Elba as Heimdall, a Norse god, in Kenneth Branagh’s film adaptation of Marvel Comic’s Thor, the Council of Conservative Citizens is calling for a boycott of the film. The council writes: It seems that Marvel Studios believes that white people should have nothing that is unique to themselves. An upcoming movie, based on the comic book Thor, will give...
Dec 22nd
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Eight-Year-Olds Publish Study in Respected Science... →
Really: The 25 kids, all from the Blackawton Primary School in Devon, England, designed the experiment from the ground up, and wrote every word in the paper. I really hope that one of these children is precocious enough to create a CV.
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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“My year started in disappointment. On Jan. 4, I got a phone call notifying me...”
– Aziz Ansari’s year in 100 words, a feature in Entertainment Weekly’s “Best and Worst of 2010” issue.
Dec 21st
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“First, we have to ask what Western liberal values we may be unreflectively...”
– Lila Abu-Lughod, (2001). Orientalism and Middle East Feminist Studies, Feminist Studies 27 (1), p. 105. (via umnica)
Dec 20th
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The Indian Enigma on American TV →
abouttocombust: A great piece on how India was portrayed in the 1950s, the early days of television. Especially more information on the high-budget “Eastern,” Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers (NBC, 1956-1957), which definitely had more brownface examples, oh, and colonialism in postcolonial times.
Dec 18th
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It always bothers me in tv shows when there's a...
huggle: like don’t make the pancakes if you’re not gonna eat them
Dec 17th
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Try Penicillin
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Dec 16th
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Dec 14th
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