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The Life of Frantz Fanon « P U L S E
Documentary on the life of the great anti-colonial thinker, Frantz Fanon.
tags: african diaspora colonialism race
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After two tragic deaths of promising N.J. students, two very different public responses | NJ.com
"Why? Is it a matter of race, or class? Moore was an African-American from the rural south, shot and killed at a party in East Orange, where many poor blacks live. Clementi was white, raised in Ridgewood, one of the state’s wealthiest suburbs.
“We have become tragically accustomed to the idea of African-Americans killing each other,” says James Harris, a dean at Montclair State University and head of New Jersey’s NAACP.
Or, perhaps, were there elements of the stories themselves that led one to become grist for talk shows in a dozen languages throughout the planet, while the other grabbed headlines for a few days and then receded quickly into the back pages of memory?"
tags: race violence lgbt queer homophobia classism
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The pitfalls of porn - RIZ KHAN - Al Jazeera English
"On Wednesday's Riz Khan we look at the growth in power and reach of the porno industry and the impact it is having on society. Riz is joined by sociologist and author Gail Dines whose latest book is Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality."
tags: sexism women pornography violence sexuality
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The true history of the Koran in America - The Boston Globe
"There was another important group of Americans who read the Koran, not as a legal sourcebook, or a work of exoticism, but as something very different — a reminder of home. While evidence is fragmentary, as many as 20 percent of African-American slaves may have come from Islamic backgrounds. They kept their knowledge of the Koran alive through memory, or chanted suras, or, in rare cases, smuggled copies of the book itself. In the 1930s, when WPA workers were interviewing elderly African-Americans in Georgia’s Sea Islands, they were told of an ancestor named Bilali who spoke Arabic and owned a copy of the Koran — a remarkable fact when we remember that it was a crime for slaves to read. In the War of 1812, Bilali and his fellow Muslims helped to defend America from a British attack, inverting nearly all of our stereotypes in the process."
tags: islam america islamophobia black america qur'an race orientalism
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Arab Shorts - Independent Arab Film - Goethe-Institut
Great collection of independent films from the Arab world.
tags: cinema arabs art
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Joseph Massad at AUC: Translating Islam | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today's News from Egypt
"According to Massad, “any attempt to understand the current situation must start by examining the history of present uses of Islam, and how it has come to be ahistoricized. The term has become a repository of meanings. Without such history, we may fall into the traps set by the ongoing war of worlds, or war of words, about who gets to control what Islam means and what Islam should mean.”"
tags: islam colonialism orientalism translation islamism imperialism arabic arabs
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Anis Shivani: What Is Distinctive About Arab-American Writing Today? Ten Leading Arab-American Writers Speak to the Huffington Post (PHOTOS)
"Our past achievements were sometimes marred by self-exoticization: a focus on food ("Look, grape leaves! Baklava! Don't hate us--you love our food!") and the Arabian Nights ("Don't pay attention to these bearded weirdos--check out this hot chick in our past who told stories and saved 1,001 virgins! Including herself! She rocks!"). I'm hoping we'll continue our path away from these themes; away from convincing people that we're "universal"--last I checked, Arab-Americans are human beings and don't need to prove this fact to anyone." - Randa Jarrar
tags: arab america literature
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Feminist Intersection: Indigenous Feminisms and Resources - Without Apology and More | Bitch Magazine
"So why am I not apologizing for being a Native feminist? Because I get serious flack for it - from all sides. On the one hand I'm not Native enough if I call myself a feminist. On the other hand I'm not feminist enough since I'm pointing out there's a mainstream movement I really don't like.
However I know that I'm speaking the language of the colonizer; English. So no matter what I say it's not going to do my identity and my politics justice. I translate "feminism" to mean what my people have believed in since time immemorial - balance. So if it takes y'all a few extra words to give me my right to self-determination of what I want to be called - DEAL WITH IT. "
tags: feminism indigenous colonialism activism
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