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microcredit as the political economy of shame

By shag carpet bomb • Dec 16th, 2008 • Category: Class, Economics, Feminism -- So Very 1998, Imperialism, Labor Struggles, Racialization, Third World Feminism

Microcredit: a political economy of shame October 14, 2008 by tanglad

It’s easy to understand the appeal of microcredit. Poor women from the Global South use loans as small as $20 to start businesses and lift themselves from poverty. The creditors make a profit when the loans are repaid. Win-win.
What do they say about things that […]


white power in black face: belief we can change in

By shag carpet bomb • Nov 22nd, 2008 • Category: Democrats, Election 2008, Imperialism, Obama, Politics, Racialization, Third way triangulating b.s.

Barack Obama wasted no time bowing down to his Wall Street financial backers and war-mongering advisors. His cabinet selections represent the same old politics of imperialist wars of plunder abroad and police containment policies against the African and Mexican communities here. It could not be clearer that Obama is, as the Uhuru Movement sums up, […]


Weakness of the Movement for Democratic Change (race and history)

By shag carpet bomb • Jul 2nd, 2008 • Category: Imperialism, Racialization

http://www.raceandhistory.com/historicalviews/2008/1006.html
The Movement for Democratic Change: The Continuity of its Theoretical and Practical Weaknesses By Sehlare Makgetlaneng* June 10, 2008
“The fight against Zimbabwe is a fight against us all. Today it is Zimbabwe, tomorrow it will be South Africa, it will be Mozambique, it will be Angola, it will be any other African country. Any government […]


Obama is the Catherine Mackinnon for oppressed white NASA engineers

By shag carpet bomb • Feb 6th, 2008 • Category: Catherine MacKinnon, Election 2008, Imperialism, Janet Halley, Obama, Theory

OK. I alluded to this analysis already, but I hadn’t realized I wasn’t very clear until I repeated myself and realized, fromt he response, that it was too opaque the 1st time. Here, I’m showing Obama’s rhetoric consists of empty signifiers. How his speeches are “all things to all people”. What makes white ppl so […]


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 […]


desexualizing brown women

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 23rd, 2008 • Category: Imperialism, Orientalism, Racialization, Social movements, Teh Sex, Third World Feminism, Whiteness

Last year, brownfemipower criticized u.s feminism because its rhetoric desexualizes women of color — a discourse that also exists within a wider u.s. discourse where women of color are racialized by hypersexualizing their bodies as well. And this can seem puzzling. How can both be going on? It’s also harder to illustrate, I think, because […]