The title of the blog refers to the color/s of race, of gender, of class. The blog is based in Germany, a place where a critical discussion of racism and 'race' is precarized on a daily and regular basis.
#Bühnenwatch Stellungnahme zu der rassistischen Kackscheisse beim neuen theater halle ..
“Homonationalism Gone Viral: Discipline, Control, and the Affective Politics of Sensation” by Jasbir Puar.
This list is stil a work in progress, but I really wanted to get it posted. I have either read parts of/all of the texts below or they have been recommended to me. Please reblog and add your own suggestions to the list. Each time someone adds something new, I’ll go back to this original post and make sure to include them. Thanks and enjoy!
Books
- Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis
- Women Culture and Politics by Angela Davis
- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
- Borderlands/La frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua
- Aint I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
- Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks
- Feminist Theory from Margin to Center by bell hooks
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty
- Medicine Stories by Aurora Levins Morales
- Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home by Anita Hill
- Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
- Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide by Andrea Smith
- Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions (Feminist Constructions) by Maria Lugones (submitted by oceanicheart)
- Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism by Jessica Yee (submitted by oceanicheart)
- Communion: The Female Search for Love by bell hooks (via easternjenitentiary)
- Nervous Conditions by Tsisti Dangarembga (via easternjenitentiary)
- A Taste of Power by Elaine Browne (via tinajenny)
- Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism by Aileen Moreton-Robinson (via jalwhite)
- I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism by Lee Maracle (via jalwhite)
- Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics by Joy James (via jalwhite)
- Re-Creating Ourselves by Molara Ogundipe-Leslie (via reallifedocumentarian)
- Chicana Feminist Thought by Alma M. Garcia (via eggplantavenger)
- Queer Latinidad by Juana Maria Rodriguez (via eggplantavenger)
- The Truth That Never Hurts by Barbara Smith (via sisteroutsider)
- Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions by Maria Lugones (via guckfender)
- Consequence: Beyond Resisting Rape by Loolwa Khazzoom (via galesofnovember)
- The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid (via wherethewildthingsmoved)
Anthologies
kids & race - sad & true video.
Für Deutsche: ‘race’ ist NICHT das Äquivalent zum deutschen R-Wort (just sayin’).
ps: 6’44 “BIAS”? uhm, why we don’t ask certain persons for help? Scuse me? for stayin’ fucking alive?? “bias”???
Study finds: “White kids are far more negative about racial interactions than Black kids are” (by AlloCanada)
This needs to be watched. Seriously. Stop acting like kids don’t see race. They DO. And in specific, white kids associate Black/Brown with bad. That is not something to ignore.
“Implicit bias” is a phrase to remember.
Sigh…. obvious things are obvious.
Most kids do have parents or siblings or guardians or relatives that raise them and pass on ideas about race, class, gender, sexuality, everything.. Why pretend like that means nothing?
I don’t like the way picture part of the study was conducted. From those pictures, I probably would have said the exact same thing (A pushed B off the swing in order to get on). They aren’t ambiguous enough for kids this age, who might typically have feuds over who gets to play on the swing set during recess on a day to day basis. The direct questions were more effective than the photos.
i disagree considering the Black children saw a completely different image. if most Black children saw a child who was hurt and the other kid is sad because of it or that one was waiting their turn for another and only 38% of the Black children see a negative story compared to 70% of the white children, it says a lot about perception and how people see things, even from that age. those white children see acts of violence perpetrated by Black children in that photo, acts not necessarily being committed. the photo is ambiguous for that reason. for the interpretation. if it was sooo straight forward, their would still be differences in how the white and Black kids saw it.
my friend’s cousin’s son is only 6 and he alreadly thinks black people are bad. WELP
One week ago, a documentary film literally from within the invasion of Gaza debuted at the 13th annual Newport Beach Film Festival in California. The Festival announced its award winners on Friday. The War Around Us proudly earned the Jury Award for Best Feature Documentary.
This is amazing news for two main reasons. First, aside from the fact that this is a major achievement, the film brought one of humanity’s greatest injustices to the big screen, a feat much greater than any award a documentary can ever earn. It brought war and its associated chaos to an American public that is so unaccustomed to experiencing the day to day realities of foreign invasion. Second, the fact that the film won such a prestigious award indicates that it was received well, that it was produced with quality, that it ultimately got its point across.
The film documents the experiences of the only two foreign journalists who were able to cover Israel’s twenty-two day assault on the Gaza Strip. It hasn’t yet been released to the public but I encourage you to visit the website and sign up for updates. I know I’ll be looking forward to the day when the film is distributed through DVD. A trailer is provided below.
(Quelle: vimeo.com)
Hatty is the Art and Production Manager for ARC and ColorLines Magazine.
“The Musqueam First Nation has vowed to shut down condo construction to protect a major ancient burial site at the Marpole Midden. Infant graves were unearthed by heavy excavating equipment at the Vancouver location this week.
More than 100 Musqueam and supporters marched to the construction…
decolonize “urban development”
racial profiling is not only a form of policing in the US, as well in Europe - and pretty disturbing, as well in Germany. Because a Black German was controlled in the train because of his skin color he was fighting back against discriminatory policing. BUT a German court legitimated the police and allowed discriminatory policing in terms of racial profiling although no suspicious reason at hand. This legitimizes racial profiling in Germany, and supports racist stereotyping.
stop racial profiling. in germany. and everywhere else. we are human and not criminals.
SUPPORT THE PETITION! click the link and sign. thanx.
As two men in Louisiana complete 40 years in solitary confinement this month, the use of total isolation in US prisons is on the rise. What does this do to a prisoner’s state of mind?
Forty years in solitary confinement and counting
Robert King paces the front room of his small, one-storey house in Austin, Texas.
“I imagine I could put my cell inside this room about six times,” he says. “Probably more.”
For 29 years Robert King occupied a cell nine feet by six - just under three metres by two - for at least 23 hours a day.
He spent most of his time incarcerated in one of the toughest prisons in the United States - Louisiana State Penitentiary.
The prison, the largest in the US, is nicknamed Angola after the plantation that once stood on its site, worked by slaves shipped in from Africa. King, who was released from prison in 2001, still calls himself one of the Angola Three - three men who have been the focus of a long-running international justice campaign.
Between them, they have served more than 100 years in solitary. All three say they were imprisoned for crimes they did not commit, and where convictions were only obtained after blatant mistrials.
King has the open face, lean physique and broad chest of a man in good shape, even on the cusp of his 70th birthday.
And he is reluctant to delve too deeply into what those years in solitary were like, beyond saying that “it’s impossible to get dipped in waste and not come up stinking”.
There is, he says, a physical toll to long-term isolation: “People become old and infirm before their time.”
But more, there is a psychological effect. He stayed strong, he says, but it was “scary” to see how others crumpled through lack of human contact.
(via wontbetelevised)
by Ajamu Baraka in “From anti-war to anti-imperialism: A Black Working Class perspective on War and Movement Building"
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie breaking it down…
“The Stories That Europe Tells Itself About Its Colonial History”
(via searchingforknowledge)
(Quelle: art-is-the-word, via decolonise)
04:10-08:39, This is the video that Inspired my BFA Thesis work. The reason I say what I say. If Baldwin can make the connection, coming from Harlem - I have no excuse to continue ignoring the colorline and my own colonization.
Because of Baldwin I have finally begun to recognize my Indigenous heritage in relation to Whiteness. It is a starker contrast than I was formerly able to admit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbkObXxSUus&feature=player_detailpage
Cee Cee has me thinking about the politics of being a legible/readable read “good” victim.
(Quelle: suzy-x)
15min Trailer to the Documentary: U People directed by Hanifah Walidah and Olive Demetrius.
This is an incredible documentary. You can find the full video in parts here: http://www.logotv.com/video/misc/339331/u-people-part-1-of-8.jhtml?id=1604982 (but I am unsure of the legality, etc).
