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Archive for the ‘Books’ Category

black culture industry

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 15th, 2008 • Category: Books, Racialization, The Black Culture Industry

i am supposed to be going through all the boxes we brought here from storage, repacking some stuff and organizing, as well as getting rid of what i should no longer be packratting. for instance, i unpacked a box and found some baby power, a brand called “kids” that I probably bought at discount 15 […]



hypersexuality of race

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 15th, 2008 • Category: Asian Feminism, Books, Inner Queer Dewd, Orientalism, Racialization, Sexpox Feminism, So Very 1998, Teh Sex, The Hypersexuality of Race, Womn of Color Feminism

hmmm. couldn’t resist. i visited amazon and this book was screaming at me to buy it, buy it, buy it. I can’t wait to read it and can only hope i have time! i finished a couple of books in the last couple of weeks and am currently reading Katherine Newman’s No Same in My […]



training journal, 08.02.28, 1 year anniversary and ketchup packets edition

By shag carpet bomb • Feb 28th, 2008 • Category: Books, Nobody Passes, Training Journal, Work

Absolutely nothing exciting going on. I’m just working and reading Matilda’s (AKA MAtt Bernstein’s) edited collection of essays, Nobody Passes. I’ve enjoyed it so far, though M’s distaste for academia irritated a wee bit — though I surely understand it. I guess I’ve been sheltered. I can’t imagine why anyone would think that Bernstein has […]



privilege

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 31st, 2008 • Category: Books, Myth of the French Bourgeoisie, Reveries, White Privilege, this bridge we call home

I’ve been reading more of Maza’s The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850. I came upon her discussion of the phamplets that proliferated on the eve of the French Revolution. She discusses the various evils identified by phamphleteers. One was “An Essay on Privilege” by Abbé Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, which […]



on the global waterfront

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 31st, 2008 • Category: Announcements, Books, Class, Labor Struggles, On the Global Waterfront, Racialization

Monthly Review Press has just published a book by Suzan Erem and E. Paul Durrenberger, titled “On the Global Waterfront.” It details an important laobr struggle on the Charleston, SC docks and tells us much about the US labor movement, racism, global capitalism, and the heroism of dedicated. mostly black, dock workers.
“On the Global […]



Israel was forced to do this, so condemn the rocket assaults!

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 30th, 2008 • Category: Black Feminist Thought, Books, Dark Continent of Our Bodies, Imperialism, Lesbian/Gay Studies, Obama, Politics, Social movements

note to self: don’t write posts at 6 am. I wrote some of below over course of a few days. Was editing it. Hit Publish instead of Save. I’d intended to put it away and edit it properly. So, very very sorry about the totally incomprehensible material below. Aiyiyiyiyi. will swing by and fix it […]



black, brown, yellow, white

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 30th, 2008 • Category: Books, Class, Racialization, The Missing Class

red is missing there. Forgot to mention that I’d also picked up Latino Challenge to Black America: Towards a Conversation Between African Americans and Hispanics by Earl Ofari Hutchinson. It was featured on the new book shelf and caught my eye — and turned out to be fascinating in light of the debates that erupted […]



bougie up! ghetto down!

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 30th, 2008 • Category: Books, Class, Our Kind of People, Racialization

In my post on the book, The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie, I noted that Maza’s argument is in line with something others have noted about the marker “yuppie”. Its usage indicates that it’s an identity against which people nearly always define themselves in opposition. People don’t want to be called yuppies and, if they […]



myth of the French bourgeoisie

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 30th, 2008 • Category: Books, Class, History, Myth of the French Bourgeoisie

Seeing as how Chuckie’s back from vaca, it reminded me to share something I’d already shared at LBO. In my latest trip to the library, I stumbled over a book that caught my eye, Sara Maza’s The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850. I’m getting desperately, desperately bored […]



home

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 24th, 2008 • Category: Black Feminist Thought, Books, Dark Continent of Our Bodies, Racialization, So Very 1998, Teh Sex

thinking a lot about home lately as we try to figure out where we should live. i realized that i want to be home, someplace a little more settled. i have moved four times this year and i’m tried of not really having my own place. i’m terrified of buying because i don’t want to […]