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• Elevator Art

  Wed Feb 27, 2008
  • and i quote:

• Elevator Art

  Wed Feb 27, 2008
  • those last two comments upset me so much that i've deleted what i was going to say right before i submitted it, twice. i have nothing but contempt for folks who think that expressing ideas in public is somehow injurious or aesthetically displeasing.

• Massumi on Affect

  Sat Mar 1, 2008
  • you click on the green "read article" link.

• Renouncing Whiteness: Colonizing the 'Other'? (pt 1)

  Tue Feb 12, 2008
  • non-white solidarity is tricky. race is often used as a divide-and-conquer strategy both inside and between groups (inside: are you black enough, you're mixed, etc; between: anti-immigration is a current hot-button topic).

• Renouncing Whiteness: Colonizing the 'Other'? (pt 1)

  Tue Feb 12, 2008
  • as far as I see it, there are a few important dimesions: 1) race is performed - IE: how people perceive you. the color of your skin, the clothes you wear, who you hang out with, what kind of car you drive (or don't), etc etc

• Performance and Post-Colonial Thought

  Wed Feb 13, 2008
  • wow! you are really good on these points ; ) the gray blackness makes me think of "double consciousness" - it sounds like quite a burden.

• Renouncing Whiteness: Colonizing the 'Other'? (pt 1)

  Tue Feb 12, 2008
  • whew! lots of responses melissa. nice to hear another opinion on the issues. i think there's a lot we agree with. i especially liked the bell hooks quote - kinda funny how it became "out of place" because the discussion here took such a digression from the original post.

• Renouncing Whiteness: Colonizing the 'Other'? (pt 1)

  Tue Feb 12, 2008
  • not saying you're not work-poor or come from a working-poor background. just saying that dismissing folks because of profanity is a bourgeois strategy. i'm sure you can agree that people can use the strategies that oppress them without knowing what they do.

• Performance and Post-Colonial Thought

  Wed Feb 13, 2008
  • here's a question that might related - political theorists who work on classical liberalism counter-pose two examples: blacks vs. native americans. a number blacks have vocally called for rights (inclusion and recognition maybe)

• Renouncing Whiteness: Colonizing the 'Other'? (pt 1)

  Tue Feb 12, 2008
  • not trying to educate you gwenny. i do some white anti-racist work and this acts as a sounding board for some of theory that informs my practice. best of luck. hopefully you've been able to make significant inroads on issues of race in your community. it's truly hard stuff.