Category Archives: Race

banished: 60 years of making your hometown white

Posted on February 17, 2008 by Michael

Chuck Tryon reminds us to watch Banished: American Ethnic Cleansings, a PBS Documentary that starts airing on February 19. The film documents the actions of white folk in various counties in the United States that expelled African Americans between 1864 … Continue reading →

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notes from the interblags

Posted on January 26, 2008 by Michael

• Who owns images of products? The company that produces them, or those that take the pictures? This comes up in the case of Ford, who is arguing that the Black Mustang Club cannot produce and circulate a calendar with … Continue reading →

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Suheir Hammad’s poetry

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Michael

An video of Suheir Hammad’s poetry, appropriate in my case now as I’m sitting in on a Post 9/11 Theory course. This week we’re discussing Slavoj Zizek’s The Desert of the Real; I’ll try to post more on my thoughts … Continue reading →

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giuliani’s anti-muslim rhetoric

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Michael

Via Muslimah Media Watch, here’s Rudy Giuliani’s recent video ad for Flordia: Frightening, to say the least — and because people buy into this crap. Wired has a decent response to the video. I find the producer’s use juxtaposing images … Continue reading →

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bill bryson haunted me

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Michael

While in the Frankfurt airport killing time, I decided I needed something to read while waiting in the airport and on the long flight back. During my vacation, I had already read Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of Freedom, Judith Butler’s Excitable … Continue reading →

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