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Obese West Virginia, with photos (and sorely needed context!)

urocyon wrote 2 weeks ago: In the November issue of Scientific American, I also ran across a photo which I found striking. (On … more →

Tags: Appearance, Body Acceptance, Body Image, Fat, Fat Acceptance, hillbillies, internalized hatred, racism, recovery

Extreme Prejudice v. Racism: What's the Difference?31 comments

Sundjata wrote 3 months ago: WARNING: MORE CONTENT AND LESS PICTURES FOLLOWS In a recent discussion with an elder, I was reminded … more →

Tags: Race Relations, Politics, Culture, History, racism, Black Power, white privilege, Brown Pride, white power

"Easterners" are not collectivist automatons who are poor at analytical reasoning.4 comments

Restructure! wrote 3 months ago: Figure 1. German (blue) versus Chinese (red) opinions, according to a German art exhibit. The piece … more →

Tags: Debunking, Science News, White People Studies, asian, Assumption, Bias, cognitive style, collectivism, Colonialism

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thewaterworks wrote 3 months ago: Glass houses. Amongst all the recent American scholarship criticizing Eurocentrism, I wonder why I f … more →

Tags: Uncategorized

New World Discovery

whiteCubist wrote 5 months ago: The following clipping appears in elcastellano.org, a website dedicated to promoting the Spanish lan … more →

Tags: postcolonialism, Spain, language, Colonialism

Building a Non-Eurocentric Anarchism in Our Communities: Dialogue with Ashanti Alston

conatz wrote 5 months ago: The following is an interview with Ashanti Alston Omowali, an African descent anarchist activist, wh … more →

Tags: anarchists, anarchism, black panther, Black Liberation Army

"Black or white", "East or West" are not racially or culturally exhaustive.8 comments

Restructure! wrote 5 months ago: Black (#000000) and white (#FFFFFF) are opposite colours, because they have opposite RGB values. As … more →

Tags: videos, Debunking, visualizations, White People Studies, Psychology, Race, black, White, stereotyping

Colonizing culture1 comment

Celucien Joseph wrote 6 months ago: Colonizing Culture Wednesday 27 May 2009 by: Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Perspective “An Ir … more →

Tags: American Politics, Colonialism, iraq, American Emperialism, Orientalism, Dahr Jamail, The Middle East, American Foreign Policy, frantz fanon

America of today: destined to fail?

Nathaniel Tang wrote 6 months ago: During the last month or so, the North American auto industry has suffered a large blow in its  … more →

Tags: Canada, Ontario Canada, united states, 2000s, Amercan-centrism, america, Americans, China, Chrysler

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jwbe wrote 7 months ago: Eurocentrism is a culture that cannot stand on its own. The value of a culture would be the value of … more →

Tags: Anti-racism, White women

The Problem with Jared Diamond's Environmental Determinism

adamfreedom wrote 7 months ago: More to come on this…   I’ve long had a problem with Jared Diamond’s “Guns, … more →

Tags: Academia, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, environmental determinism, Guns Germs and Steel, jared diamond

Considering intent to evaluate morality is an ancient Western tradition.13 comments

Restructure! wrote 8 months ago: Contemporary Western intellectuals embrace secularism as ‘modern’, and they often percei … more →

Tags: White People Studies, Perception, Canada, Law, Culture, History, Orientalism, ethnocentrism, Justice

Derrida Lays the Ub3r Pwnege2 comments

Jack Stephens wrote 8 months ago: Had to share some of my stupid ramblings that I did for my Facebook account status updates: Surprisi … more →

Tags: Europe, White Supremacy, radicalism, History, Literature, language, Jacques Derrida, Derrida, poststructuralism

Obama's obeisance/slight tilt/stoop/bow/bending-over

markfoxjr wrote 8 months ago: President Obama greeted King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia last week. Conservative critics called it a bo … more →

Tags: Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Politcal Correctness, G20, Barack Obama, King Abdullah, bow, pope, Conservatives

Martin Bernal's "Black Athena" Promoted at Skoplje's Book Fair [09-IV-2009]2 comments

vardaraxios wrote 8 months ago: The central promotion of the debunked magnum opus of Afrocentrism, “Black Athena” by Mar … more →

Tags: Pseudomacedonism, Persons, FYROM, pseudoscience, Anthropology, FYROM Propaganda, Afrocentrism, Martin Bernal, Black Athena

Progressive Homeschooling1 comment

udg wrote 8 months ago: Over the years, homeschooling has been, at least in the media, largely the province of conservatives … more →

Tags: SAP, Homeschool, Conflict Theory, Education, Progressive

Santosh wrote 8 months ago: Keating, Anna Louise. “Making New Connections” : Transformational Multiculturalism in th … more →

Tags: Freire, liberatory, Anzaldua, Multiculturalism, 2004, hall, Giroux, deloria, Relational Teaching

Taking the 'we' out of 'western'

Joe Painter wrote 9 months ago: Jason Burke is one of the most astute and nuanced commentators on the politics of the parts of the w … more →

Tags: Pakistan, Jason Burke, The West, western, World View

thameside art highlights

cwongyap wrote 9 months ago: Shadows and lights on the Queen's Walk, Thameside, London. Sorry, none of the exhibitions allowed ph … more →

Tags: Community, Art & Development, Travelogue, London, Galleon Trade, breathe residency, Fareed Zakaria, Hayward Gallery, tate modern


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