I used to do reviews of the Escape Artists podcasts. Maybe I should do that again. Recently, I've been meaning to post more, but the days slip by without me even noticing I haven't posted again. (On the other hand, my exercise is staying fairly regular, despite wisdom-tooth disruptions, so that's good.) But I really wanted to talk about one ( Read more... )

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This journal has moved to Dreamwidth. Entry originally posted at http://tablesaw.dreamwidth.org/479124.html.


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Lotería Chicana sums up my antipathy toward the U.S.'s Cinco de Mayo in a positive way:If Cinco de Mayo was a real holiday-instead of just an excuse to drink lots of tequila-there'd be some kind of gift giving or at least all Mexicans would get hugs. Even, better there'd be Cinco de Mayo miracles and claymation movies reenacting the Battle of ( Read more... )

The Nigerian historian J.F. Afe Ajayi steers a sensible middle course between dramatization and trivialization of the effects of colonial rule: "Although the Europeans were generally masters of the colonial situation and had political sovereignty, they did not possess a monopoly of initiatve during the colonial period." We must therefore ask who ( Read more... )

In a 1998 survey, three different groups of white people were asked whether they had black friends ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to post this for a while, and I'm going to do so now, if for no other reason than I won't have to keep looking for it. I think Bonilla-Silva may have rephrased this more precisely in later revisions, but this is the version I have.This argument [racialized social structures] clashes with social scientists' most popular policy ( Read more... )

My ire was raised today reading
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That sounds like a very nice title, but this is not a nice post.

Yeah, it's about Elizabeth Moon, who said unbelievable wrong and harmful things about immigration, assimilatin, and most especially Islam. There once were hundreds of comments carefully picking out the threads of ignorance from the post and exposing them for what they were, but they' ( Read more... )

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My valentine to ojouchan, the love of my life, forever and always:


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