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A good article on "aversive racism"
This is a good article:
John F. Dovidio and Samuel L. Gaertner, Color Blind or Just Plain Blind?: The Pernicious Nature of Contemporary Racism
academic.udayton.edu/race/01race/racism10.htm
(So sue me...one of the things that makes it helpful to me is that it is scholarly and straightforward, and not...angry.)
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Who am I?
My husband remembers something one of his teachers told him in high school. Considering he barely paid attention in high school, this is saying something. Also that it has stuck in my brain so hard. It's this ( Read more... ) -
What a week...
I got to give two workshops, timed at the most bummer-ish times of the whole convention, and needed extra chairs for both...
I got to conduct 3000 musicians for an hour, beneath the envious glances of a goodly number of educated cathedrally men who probably thought they could have done it better...
I got to hear a wonderful priest--a wonderfully wise ( Read more... ) -
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If nextian won't mind me quoting her ( Read more... ) -
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I said I would think. I'm still thinking. What I'm thinking about, on a lot of levels, is anger.
And then I found this essay, somewhere in a link to a link to a link (I don't think it was on linkspam as such, but at this point I've lost track...)
Wow. I mean, just....wow.
Still thinking.
http://www.drama21c.net/feminism/articles/useanger.htm
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Et tu, Kass?
Sigh.
I don't know why this makes me so sad...(and let me point out at the outset, this is MY damn journal, not a sweeping pronouncement to the world.)
[MUCH LATER EDIT--any latecomers to the party, might as well skip this and go straight to lady-jem.livejournal.com/74584.html in which there may well be yet more screwuppage on my part, but at least ( Read more... )