March 2012
22 posts
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"the figure of w.e.b. du bois as a problem for...
“We can think of a problematic as the ensemble of questions that are given to a thinker as a task by the conditions of time and situation, by the historicity of his or her emergence as an intellectual. We might specify this idea a bit more by suggesting that what compels our attention here is not simply history as an organization of external condition that comprises a demand or obligation...
MLK day plans
negrosunshine:
sangria at some point in Boystown, i have a dream that one day little black boys, and little white boys will join hands, (that may or may not be a queer paraphrasing).
BUT FIRST!
i will make it through Nahum Chandler’s “Of Exorbitance: The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought,” so i can quit lying to myself that i read this and knew what was happening.
i will read this...
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The Black Panther Party's Ten Point Program
youmearebeautiful:
We Want Freedom. We Want Power To Determine The Destiny Of Our Black Community.
We believe that Black people will not be free until we are able to determine our destiny.
We Want Full Employment For Our People.
We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the White American...
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helga crane and the storefront pentecostal church
today i presented for #SPS2012 - the Society for Pentecostal Studies - on a panel responding to the documentary film “Let the Church Say Amen,” a cool documentary following the lives of several individuals who attend a storefront pentecostal church in Washington, DC. following are my comments regarding the film [which you can watch on hulu for free, linked above].
Helga Crane was on...
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“[E]ither…there is no ‘nothing,’ or that ‘nothing’...”
– Jean-Christophe Bailly
February 2012
14 posts
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WatchSoul Food makes possible what Theaster Gates calls “radical hospitality,” what one of the visitors to this installation/food/sonic/sensual experience called “LOVE!” this is hot…!
Watchdaughtersofdilla:
fatherswrites:
Food culture is one of the best weapons used by white supremacy!
This looks like a great film:
“Through candid interviews with soul food historians, doctors, family members, and everyday people, “Soul Food Junkies” blends history and humor to place this rich culinary tradition under the microscope. The documentary is produced and directed by Byron Hurt,...
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"Peter Pans: Eating in the Diaspora" (Hortense...
“By revising and correcting ‘blackness’ into a critical posture, into a preeminent site of the ‘multicultural,’ long before the latter defined a new politics and polemic, and by distinguishing it from a sign called the ‘American Negro’ (and we can make any substitution here that might be appropriate, i.e., ‘black,’ ‘Afro-American,’...
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On Non-Blacks being Black Feminists
leonineantiheroine:
femmenoire:
leonineantiheroine:
femmenoire:
leonineantiheroine:
liquornspice:
poemsofthedead:
pssincerelyadventure:
See here…..
My mostly white women and gender studies class, after reading the Combahee River Collective, wanted to know if they could be Black Feminists because they cared about all those issues and wanted to end oppression and liberate women...
A Feminist Care Package for Too $hort
feministcarepackages:
Dear Too $hort, We are a collective of people of color who are angered and saddened by your comments in a video for XXL magazine. We are angry because no one at the magazine thought to pull the plug on the interview and we are sad because you seem unaware that you were advocating the rape of girls by boys. We think that young people have a right to know about sex and...
Spilling Whitney's Tea
passportharlem:
After my Whitney post, I got an email from a someone who read it. She was in the middle of a debate about whether or not to it was too soon to discuss Whitney Houston’s sexuality, namely rumors regarding a relationship with her former assistant, Robyn Crawford. (Crawford’s response to Houston’s death can be found here.) The reader wanted to know my opinion on the matter.
It took...
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"Eternal Life and Biopower" (Vatter)
“philosophy as a form of life must give up the ‘ascetic ideal,’ which understands the body and zoe as its ‘tomb,’ and, to the contrary, must begin to understand how it is that the body and zoe also philosophize” (220).
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whitney: an attempt at tribute.
some scattered remarks, primarily from an email i sent to two friends today.
RIP Whitney Houston
i’m still in utter and complete shock regarding whitney houston. floored. very saddened. i left church this morning with some seething hope that i’d hear “it was an internet rumor” or a hoax or something. the weird thing is, my parents didn’t allow my brother and...
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West, Harris-Perry & the Disconnections in my mind
this is a collection of meandering thoughts regarding the newest aspects of the CW/MHP controversy … personal, political, mean-spirited. some of this was said in private emails, others on facebook. i’ve tried to collect it and give it some semblance of coherence but i don’t pretend to have achieved it. so yeah…just some thoughts…
last year when the CW truthdig...
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"aesthetics" and pentecostalism
Aesthetics is
a form of cognition, achieved through taste, touch, hearing, seeing, smell — the whole corporeal sensorium. The terminae of all of these — nose, eyes, ears, mouth, some of the most sensitive areas of skin — are located at the surface of the body, the mediating boundary between inner and outer. This physical-cognitive apparatus with its qualitatively autonomous,...
January 2012
12 posts
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moth's powder [02.25.10]
from: a to: a Thursday, February 25, 2010, 11:39 PM subject: Re: mp
moth’s powder,
it’s like this:
to carry a service. to be underneath, underground, underwater sounding out and through. Background and surplus. the gift. this is nothing. not the absence but the overwhelming presence of that something. it wanders and precedes and follows, presences and flows. it sets atmosphere and mood and agrees...
