thewayoftheid has a great recent post on black critics of black culture.

Here's my response to her post and a follow-up:

overall I agree with you 100 ( Read more... )

I had this thought peice I wrote for a "burning of the bulls" ceremony that is done every "Columbus" Day outside the Catholic Cathedral in downtown Honolulu. But I can't find it anywhere -stupid non-filing system- so I'm recreating from scratch. Prolly this will be full of errors, but I'm using this as a beginning for something longer that I might ( Read more... )

This book had been sitting on my desk for a LONG time, I'd bought it because of a really good critique of Horatio Alger that was excerpted from this book (thank god for the internet) that I needed for a peice I wrote on "Fear and the American Dream" about 6 months ago and last night at about 2.30 am (you know who you are, it's your fault) I finally ( Read more... )

Recently I've been thinking about the way that bourgeois people of all races are being offered selected opportunities to become part of the white race.

This comes partly from thinking about conservative AsAm and Latino support for "model minority" status and for the idea that the "system" is fair (see also Lani Guinier's critique of "meritocracy ( Read more... )

These are my preliminary thoughts on the book. They're a little badly-focussed but it should give you a bit of a sense of how I see the book. Apologies also for the occasional lapses into social sciencese, I tried to limit it as best I could, but the review was written in haste and I'm afraid that means it's stuck in my primary mode of expression ( Read more... )

Recently I wrote a peice on the role of fear in US culture. It's still being processed, but I thought again about this earlier peice I did on "kama`aina haoles" in Hawai`i. It's still pretty rough, but I thought people might like to see it ( Read more... )