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[dreamer_easy]

... which reminds me. I was trying to work out whether I should close seeingred and instead post the anti-racist stuff here. That would mean a bigger audience, but might lose the people who are only interested in seeingred, and makes indexing a bitch - one of the advantages of those side journals is you can get way specific with the tags.

Anywho, I think the solution is to keep seeingred, but start to post pointers here to content all of my various "workbooks" which might be of more general interest. (I want to concentrate more on original content and less on just reposting links, too.)

In the meantime, here are a few postings from seeingred which may be of interest (beware of SPOILERS large and small):

The future (and it works) - racial integration as a marker for the future / the present day in Doctor Who and Torchwood.

Lisa and Beth in Torchwood.

Who lives and who dies? - a whole bunch of postings trying to work out if new Who falls into the movie cliche of the disposable Black male character, including a list of the entire supporting cast. (An unexpected finding was that there are far more Black than Desi characters, although in Britain's population, it's the other way around.)

Employment discrimination against Black Americans - the hard evidence.

Edumacation! A couple of postings inspired by Black feminist Patricia Hill Collins. Plus! bell hooks! Whom you must read! Plus from a UK perspective, Black Looks and Racism and the Mass Media and Representing Black Britain.

Martha and other Black Britons in The Shakespeare Code

How diverse is your neighbourhood?

How Captain America taught me about anti-semitism.


(And no, this isn't an audition for my ghetto pass; I don't want one. I did go through an embarrassing phase of crawling to Mammy for a cookie, but that was eight months ago and I'm over it.)

Comments

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Did you catch any of the State of the Black Union on TV today? Interesting stuff about race in America. Might be some clips up on youtube, and it will probably be replayed on C-SPAN.

[jblum.livejournal.com]

I did go through an embarrassing phase of crawling to Mammy for a cookie

No you didn't. That's a mean-spirited spin on your actual attempt to find friendly common ground, and you don't need to accept that characterization of it either.

[seeingred.livejournal.com]

No, I think karnythia does have a point there - back in July, I did keep popping up in FOCs' LJs, hoping for absolution. And for a long time I hoped that seeingred might earn me that ghetto pass. But I've learned (a) to ignore Internet gossip instead of being terrified of it; (b) that I neither want nor need pats on the back from POC; (c) that untrue, unfair attacks are a godsend in disguise.

[karnythia.livejournal.com]

And yet you're still not done playing the martyr. Nor do you seem to be able to stop making the reactions of fen of color to your bad behavior in these discussions all about them being mean and/or part of a clique as opposed to simply owning the things you did that were offensive. You're still behaving offensively (including in DBW) and then getting upset that FOC won't hold your hand and tell you for the 1346478765544235424377686875th time what you've done wrong when it's already so clear you're not going to listen.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

[karnythia.livejournal.com]

Thank you for proving my point.

[jblum.livejournal.com]

...and thank you for proving mine.

[karnythia.livejournal.com]

If only your point had been based in reality.

Yours in Solidarity...

[cimmerians.livejournal.com]

::sekrit handshake::

[wondrousstrange.livejournal.com]

Hi there. Long-time reader, first-time commenter. Here's a book that's just come out this month. It's about Americans, but I thought I'd pimp it anyway since the author teaches at my school and is a brilliant person: Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary 18th-Century Family Moved out of Slavery and into Legend (http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Mrs-Prince-Extraordinary-Eighteenth-Century/dp/0060510730) by Gretchen Gerzina. She also wrote Black London: Life Before Emancipation, (published in the UK as Black England) about 18th/early 19th century multiethnicity of England.

...back to lurking....

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Ooh, ta!