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Comment on ‘Mixture is a Neoliberal Good’: Mixed-Race Metaphors and Post-Racial Masks by Black Cultural Criticism

Black Cultural Criticism — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 22:36:34 +0000

[...] Many conservative commentators reacted to the terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001 with platitudes about the clash of civilizations. Robert Fulford, a prominent cultural critic for the Canadian National Post, was one of the few to tie a post-9/11 context to the fortieth anniversary of Frantz Fanon’s death. In an article strategically published at the beginning of Black History Month, Fulford claimed that Fanon’s classic texts were invoked and not read, as if The Wretched of the Earth was just another ironic commodity for consumers full of sound and fury who wear images of Malcolm X and Che Guevara without knowing anything about their commitment to human rights. To go further, he maintained that Fanon should be remembered as a ‘poisonous thinker’ who helped usher in a culture of violence and victimization in the West. [...]

Comment on ‘Mixture is a Neoliberal Good’: Mixed-Race Metaphors and Post-Racial Masks by Mixed Race Studies » Scholarly Perspectives on Mixed-Race » ‘Mixture is a Neoliberal Good’: Mixed-Race Metaphors and Post-Racial Masks

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:05:03 +0000

[...] ‘Mixture is a Neoliberal Good’: Mixed-Race Metaphors and Post-Racial Masks [...]

Comment on ‘Liberal Multiculturalism is the Hegemony – Its an Empirical Fact’ – A response to Slavoj Žižek by Ash Sharma

Ash Sharma — Sat, 07 May 2011 16:36:02 +0000

See Zizek’s response to Ahmed ‘Appendix: Multiculturalism, the Reality of an Illusion’ http://www.lacan.com/essays/?page_id=454

Comment on The roads not taken: Migrants, labor and antiracism in Italy in the age of the Bossi-Fini Law by Evans Kuntonda

Evans Kuntonda — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:17:27 +0000

We have a lot in common when it comes migrant labour laws here in South Africa , in which in 2008 May caused xenophobic attacks because locals were saying migrants are taking thier jobs . We have organised our self here in South Africa as migrants ,with three commitees in two different cities ( Johannesburg and Pretoria )with a membership of about 3000 form sub saharan countries mostly .
My wish will be that if we start to pay solidality with you in Italy it will be great

Yours

Evans Tendai Kuntonda
Co-odinotor

Comment on Heather has two mommies and they’re both caucasian and moneyed: unsaids in international ‘queer’ children’s literature by Seema manzur

Seema manzur — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:46:59 +0000

This is a great article. As a lesbian parent I think there should be more books out there that deal with these issue’s. I have a copy of “King and King” and I will certainly go back and re-read it after reading this article.

Comment on Heather has two mommies and they’re both caucasian and moneyed: unsaids in international ‘queer’ children’s literature by Damien Riggs

Damien Riggs — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:42:31 +0000

Just wanted to say that this is a great piece, Dervla :) I really enjoyed the nuanced nature of your analysis and hope that parents/authors/communities take heed of your findings. I have been tinkering around the edges of critiquing similar books (as a white gay parent myself) and really do hope that it results in books that actually do a better job of representing queer families, as well as of course exploring the whiteness of mainstream queer parenting. Some of my stuff has appeared previously in darkmatter (touching on similar issues of adoption, queerness, and whiteness), and another paper specifically on race, sexuality and these books has appeared in journal of GLBT family studies (http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a902832783~frm=titlelink). I look forward to reading more of your work in the future :)

Comment on Digitizing Race by Lisa Nakamura by Digitizing Race – Social Etymologies

Digitizing Race – Social Etymologies — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:01:04 +0000

[...] Digitizing Race – Lisa Nakamura | darkmatter Journal. [...]

Comment on Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21st Century – Review by P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Book of the Week: Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21st Century

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:12:30 +0000

[...] There is a detailed review by Stephan Scheel in the journal Dark Matter, here. [...]

Comment on Who gets ‘booked’: Super-Surveillance & the case of Ali Dizaei by manny barot

manny barot — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:13:35 +0000

And what ‘impact assessment’ was carried out so that Ali wouldn’t be assaulted in prison?

Well written.

Comment on ‘You are not welcome here’: post-apartheid negrophobia & real aliens in Blomkamp’s District 9 by Recording Surface :: Illegible :: February :: 2010

Recording Surface :: Illegible :: February :: 2010 — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:52:56 +0000

[...] concluding paragraph to Henriette Gunkel and Christiane König’s reading of District 9. Many of the elements alluded to above are fleshed out very nicely in the piece, [...]