Racism
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Racism
These were not really my creations, they did not contain my history; I might search in them in vain forever for any reflection of myself. I was an interloper; this was not my heritage. At the same time I had no other heritage which I could possibly hope to use—I had certainly been unfitted for the jungle or the tribe. I would have to appropriate
... See moreJames Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son
what I call minor feelings: the racialized range of emotions that are negative, dysphoric, and therefore untelegenic, built from the sediments of everyday racial experience and the irritant of having one’s perception of reality constantly questioned or dismissed. Minor feelings arise, for instance, upon hearing a slight, knowing it’s racial, and
... See moreCathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
emotional corporeality is moreover a central element to defining black racial authenticity.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
Modernity’s coloniality is the elephant in the room.
At the core of modernity lies the belief that ‘there is no alternative’, that there is just one reality, one world — a singular, external world that pre-exists, and is separate from, our interactions with it. There is the world and then there is us — a fictitious notion that masquerades within... See more
At the core of modernity lies the belief that ‘there is no alternative’, that there is just one reality, one world — a singular, external world that pre-exists, and is separate from, our interactions with it. There is the world and then there is us — a fictitious notion that masquerades within... See more
Will Bull • Building the Infrastructure of Possibility
The racializing serves the core mandate of race: to create hierarchies of value.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Sovereignty: Who is ultimately in control, and how? Is there too much reliance on external resources? What happens to the value that derives from labor and culture? How easy is it for individuals and communities to exit if they so choose? • Democracy: How can participants be part of the flows of power? Are those flows explicitly stated and widely
... See moreNathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
When metaphor invades decolonization, it kills the v ery possibility of decolonization; it recenters whiteness, it resettles theory, it extends innocence to the settler, it entertains a settler future. Decolonize (a verb) and decolonization (a noun) cannot easily be grafted onto pre -existing discourses/frame works, even if they are critical, even... See more
Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang • "Decolonization is not a metaphor"
Link to Minnesota freedom fund to bail out protestors is in bio. Can you donate? Esp my fellow non-Black POC, if you have $ to spare, let’s show our solidarity. White supremacy won’t save any of us. Art by @shirien.creates ❤️
instagram.comSo I do not pity my seven-year-old self for identifying racially as Black. I still identify as Black. Not because I believe Blackness, or race, is a meaningful scientific category but because our societies, our policies, our ideas, our histories, and our cultures have rendered race and made it matter. I am among those who have been degraded by
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