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Category Archives: Race and Racism
”Good Hair”
Read about Chris Rock’s new documentary by this name here, at the NYT. Below is an excerpt: While loaded with the 43-year-old actor-comedian’s wisecracking humor, ”Good Hair” also raises serious questions about identity and equality among black women who feel … Continue reading
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“The Meaning of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday” by Coretta Scott King
From The King Center web site: The Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday celebrates the life and legacy of a man who brought hope and healing to America. We commemorate as well the timeless values he taught us through his example … Continue reading
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What Tami Said!
What Tami Said blog author Tamara Winfrey Harris has an interesting and provocative column here. Below is a short excerpt: Americans tout our egalitarian democracy to the world: anyone can be president, we say. But some of us know this … Continue reading
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The Kitchen Table: A Blog About “Race, Politics, Religion, Popular Culture”
It’s pretty engaging! Informative and geeky, as you might expect from two academics, but also very amusing at times. Some posts are quite provocative, so if the prospect of reading opinions you strongly disagree with is alarming, it’s not … Continue reading
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Aborting Culture
Khiara Bridges is the Center for Reproductive Rights/Columbia Law School fellow at Columbia Law School who has just completed her PhD in Columbia’s Anthropology Department studying the intersection of race, poverty, and gender through the experience of women in an … Continue reading
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Siddharth Kara, “Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery”
From the publisher’s website: Every year, millions of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, made to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. Generating huge profits for their exploiters, sex slaves … Continue reading
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Another Case for the Tee Shirt Law Course
Per Yahoo News: An airline passenger forced to cover his T-shirt because it displayed Arabic script has been awarded 240,000 dollars in compensation, campaigners said Monday. Raed Jarrar received the pay out on Friday from two US Transportation Security Authority … Continue reading
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The South Carolina Star Chamber – Whites Only Division
So here in Columbia SC there are still “whites only” organizations, and one of them is the Forest Lake Country Club. The local newspaper reported: The nearly 80-year-old Forest Lake Club : whose deed has a whites-only restriction : has … Continue reading
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Black Woman Walking: A Documentary By Tracey Rose
Via What About Our Daughters.
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Thoughts on Her Body, My Baby – the Racial Implications of Surrogacy
Khiara Bridges is the Center for Reproductive Rights/Columbia Law School fellow at Columbia Law School who has just completed her PhD in Columbia’s Anthropology Department studying the intersection of race, poverty, and gender through the experience of women in an … Continue reading
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“A video conversation with civil rights leaders”
Featuring the fabulous Veronica Arreola! Here at this site, which notes: In the aftermath of President-elect Barack Obama’s historic win, many commentators have said it will take time to understand the full significance of his ascendance to the presidency. To … Continue reading
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CFP: Women, Incarceration and Human Rights, February 27-28, Atlanta, GA
From the FLP mailbox, this notice of yet another great workshop being convened by Martha Fineman and the Feminism and Legal Theory Project at Emory Law School: From 1995 – 2006, the number of incarcerated women in the United States … Continue reading
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Hip Hop, Capitalism, and Taking Back the Music
I read with great interest Jonah Weiner’s recent Slate article decrying the absence of women in hip hop music. After providing a compelling (if not, in my opinion, entirely accurate) history of women in the genre, he explains the reasons … Continue reading
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“Exploiting People, Stereotypes Is Not Exactly Sexy”
That’s the title of this post at Jezebel, in which blogger Megan Carpentier writes fairly critically about a “charity porn” initiative to “Save African Orphans” that seems pretty appalling at every level. I’m a little uncomfortable with the tone of … Continue reading
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“Afropublicrats and a More Perfect Love (Or, Living Wrong and Voting Right)”
Read the new post by this title by Lolita Buckner Inniss here.
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New Blog: On Being A Black Lawyer
Text of post adapted from a promotional e-mail: Yolanda Young has launched the blog www.onbeingablacklawyer.com. You might remember her as the former Covington & Burling staff attorney who chronicled her experience as a minority attorney there in The Huffington Post … Continue reading
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Brand New Blog by Lolita Buckner Inniss: “Ain’t I a Feminist Legal Scholar Too?”
Find it here!
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What Will Whiteness Mean in the Obama Years?
Two interesting essays: This one (from whence I borrowed the title for this post) at Diary of an Anxious Black Woman, and this one, entitled Propositioning Privilege, at WoC PhD. –Ann Bartow
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Early morning after: ballot initiatives and progressive House candidates
Since you write the blog you want to read, I decided to concentrate last night on the ballot initiatives and down ballot races that I thought progressives would be most interested in. What strikes me the morning after is … Continue reading
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DEFINE THIS! 2nd Annual Women of Color Conference in Greensboro, NC on November 14th & 15th, 2008
The Feminist Majority Foundation is proud to partner with Bennett College for Women to bring you DEFINE THIS! 2nd Annual Women of Color Conference in Greensboro, NC on November 14th & 15th, 2008. This two-day conference goes beyond awareness-raising and … Continue reading
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New Study Documents Sharp Rise in Pregnancy Discrimination Complaints, Driven by Discrimination Against Women of Color
From The National Partnership for Women & Families: In 2007, working women in the United States filed 65 percent more complaints of pregnancy discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) than they filed in 1992. A sampling of these … Continue reading
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Leonard M. Baynes, “White Women in Peril on Broadcast and Cable Television News”
The abstract: It has been approximately forty years since the U.S. Supreme Court found the Fairness Doctrine constitutional and approximately twenty years since the Federal Communications Commission (the “FCC”) eliminated it. The Fairness Doctrine provided that the broadcasters were required … Continue reading
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“Number of women, minority attorneys at big firms ticks up : but not in partnership ranks”
The National Law Journal Reports: The number of women and minority attorneys at major U.S. law firms is creeping up, but those groups remain significantly underrepresented in the partner ranks. That finding comes from a new report by the National … Continue reading
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The Howard University School of Law Will Host Fifth Annual Wiley A. Branton Symposium On October 24, 2008
Program-at-a-glance here. Additional information here. Via Okianer Christian Dark.
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Racism in the ways HIV is linked to Africa
Explained here, at Diary of An Anxious Black Woman.
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Girls! Girls! Girls! Bitch Magazine’s “Feminist Response To Pop Culture” Is To Co-Sponsor A Strip Show With Hustler
Read about it here. And just click on the Hustler logo if you are in the market for hardcore porn such as Larry Flynt’s “Barely Legal” line that delightfully features women who look like children, or some of the charming … Continue reading
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Anthony V. Alfieri, “Prosecuting the Jena Six”
Available here. These are the first two sentences: This Essay explores the racial norms animating the prosecution of the Jena Six in LaSalle Parish, Louisiana, a set of norms I will call Jim Crow legal ethics. By Jim Crow legal … Continue reading
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“The measure that would have preserved affirmative action programs in Colorado will not be on the November ballot.”
From the Feminist Daily News: The measure, Initiative 82, would have preserved affirmative action programs that are threatened by Amendment 46, which has been cleared for the ballot. The disqualified initiative fell about 8,000 signatures short of the number required. … Continue reading
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A shock to one’s conscious
The WaPo reports: As the country rapidly diversifies, Republicans are presenting a convention that is almost entirely white. Only 36 of the 2,380 delegates seated on the convention floor are black, the lowest number since the Joint Center for Political … Continue reading
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“Arizona Affirmative Action Ban will not be on November Ballot”
From the Feminist Daily News: An anti-affirmative action ballot measure in Arizona will not be on the November ballot. The measure was decertified based on the signatures collected, but its decertification was challenged last week. A lawsuit to restore the … Continue reading
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“Hamer’s Convention”
Interesting and moving post by this name at The Legal History Blog about Fannie Lou Hamer’s challenge to the seating of Mississippi’s all-white Democratic delegation at the 1964 DNC. –Ann Bartow
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“The Cognitive Costs of Interracial Interactions”
Provocative links and analysis here at the Situationist.
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Report Released on Affirmative Action in Public Discourse
From the Feminist Daily News: A new report analyzes the impact media has in framing the current affirmative action debates and generally concludes that media portrayals are often biased and misinformed. The report was released by The Opportunity Agenda and … Continue reading
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Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Tracey Laszloffy, “The Black Acedemic’s Guide for Winning Tenure – Without Losing Your Soul”
From Inside Higher Ed: In The Black Academic’s Guide to Winning Tenure : Without Losing Your Soul (Lynne Rienner), Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Tracey Laszloffy offer both empathy and”to do”lists for African American scholars seeking tenure : as well as … Continue reading
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Whoa.
This. Not sure what I can productively add. See also. –Ann Bartow
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Isaac Royall and Janet Halley
Because Al Brophy is both incredibly cool, and also a good friend, I think he will let me get away with pirating this post: This morning’s CLIP service brings news that Janet Halley’s talk on becoming the Royall Chair at … Continue reading
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“The founder of ‘Stuff White People Like’ thinks white people wouldn’t know a herd mentality if it trampled them.”
So says Christian Lander, author of Stuff White People Like, in this interview.
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Beverly I. Moran, “Capitalism and the Tax System: A Search for Social Justice”
Here is the abstract: America is a country founded on ideas. The Enlightenment was one set of ideas that attended our birth and one Enlightenment belief as strong today as during the revolution is our faith in capitalism and the … Continue reading
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TMI: Bashir’s Below-the-Belt Blood Rush
New York Magazine reports here on ABC News Journalist Martin Bashir’s address to the Asian American Journalists Association in Chicago on July 25. Bashir told the audience, “I’m happy to be in the midst of so many Asian babes. In … Continue reading
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NYT Features Restaurant Run by Racist in Feature About Columbia, SC “Bar Crawl”
Here. While it is nice to see Columbia get positive media attention, out of all the fine eating establishments here, this decision is flabbergasting. Below is the excerpt endorsing “Maurice’s Piggy Park:” Maurice’s Piggy Park is a chain of BBQ … Continue reading
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AIDS and WOC
According to the CDC: Early in the epidemic, HIV infection and AIDS were diagnosed for relatively few women and female adolescents (although we know now that many women were infected with HIV through injection drug use but that their infections … Continue reading
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“Black. Female. Accomplished. Attacked.”
WaPo OpEd about Michelle Obama here. -Maggie Chon
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Ruminations on being American
By the terrific Siva Vaidhyanathan, here.
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More Ground to Break at Marquette Law School
Last week Marquette Law School sent a postcard announcing, “More than 800 people . . . picked up a shovel to break ground for the future home of Marquette University Law School.” Marquette received a generous gift from … Continue reading
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“In South Africa, Chinese is the New Black”
Compelling post title, that! Read what it is about here, at Racialicious. It discusses this WSJ article, which begins with these paragraphs: A high court in South Africa ruled on Wednesday that Chinese-South Africans will be reclassified as”black,”a term that … Continue reading
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“Racism 2.0”
That’s the title of this thoughtful post at Diary of An Anxious Black Woman.
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Michelle Obama Watch Reminder
This blog documents the myriad slurs being thrown at Michelle Obama. Rather than replicate efforts, I’ll remind y’all periodically to keep checking it out. Today the blog highlights this Op-Ed called “The Loud Silence of Feminists.” –Ann Bartow
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Worst Thing I Saw Online Today.
This. I admit I wasn’t looking that hard. –Ann Bartow
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