January 2011
TEN THINGS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT RACE →
adailyriot:
Our eyes tell us that people look different. No one has trouble distinguishing a Czech from a Chinese. But what do those differences mean? Are they biological? Has race always been with us? How does race affect people today?
There’s less - and more - to race than meets the eye:
1. Race is a modern idea. Ancient societies, like the Greeks, did not divide people according to...
Vade Mecum, Billy Collins
kathleenjoy:
I want the scissors to be sharp and the table perfectly level when you cut me out of my life and paste me in that book you always carry. (via ahuntersheart) (via bon-bon)
Shit My Students Write: What really is Orientalism... →
shitmystudentswrite:
Orientalism, to David Said, is known as Eastern culture and is typically thought of as a combination of Asian, Japanese, Siamese, Chinese and other non-European cultures. The concept of Orientalism relates to music because it creates a stereotype for the different types of music in different Eastern cultures. For example, in the movie Lady and the Tramp, there is a scene...
Privilege Denying Malay Guy →
this may be, like, the best blog of all time
i feel like a reverse-racist academic paper on ‘The Static Continuity of European Biblical Oil Paintings’ would be hilarious
or something
don’t mind me this paper’s getting to me
A Litany For Survival (Audre Lorde) For those of...
janaki:
Cover of I Will Follow You Into the Dark...
Dear Pyrus: lailale: the base of ln: “model”... →
lailale:
the base of ln: “model” minority
a term used to describe Asian Americans as the “ideal” kind of minority population in mostly white countries: “quiet, hardworking but never threatens positions of the white majority.” The term is dangerous to all demographics: it locks all…
“How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely...”
– Isaac Asimov, “Prometheus,” The Roving Mind (1983) (via bioephemera)
Todays theme: artists theories of art. Or textiles. Or both.
(via materialworld)
if only i had read this last term!
