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[ciroccoj]

I'm going through my notes and loving my CRT prof right now. I've written down some of her snarky moments, like

• 
  "So I was the only black member of the Faculty hired in the last 20 years, which means that of course I got what I get everywhere, 'I hear that you were hired because of the affirmative action program', and I gave the same response I always give, which is 'Yeah, but it's not a very good program. I mean, they've only ever found me.'"
  
  
• "And a woman came up to me and congratulated me not straightening my hair and having braids instead. She said 'I'm so proud of you, you're making a real statement' - I was just lazy, if bald was in I would just, you know, buff my head and go."
  
  
• Re. Canada considering forgiving the debt of countries struck by the tsunami: "Oh how very generous of you to suspend this incredibly corrupt and damaging and disgusting system of debt repayment that you've been bleeding these people dry with for years! And what about the other countries suffering through it? How many of their people should die before you suspend this in their countries too?"

Neat lady.

Neat course, too. Right now I'm switching between reading about a "racializing on the net" (assumptions we all make that everybody is white/female, and how that affects/is affected by racism in RL) and an analysis of circumstances surrounding the death of Konerak Sinthasomphone at the hands of Jeffrey Dahmer. Then I've got readings on "passing" from black and Asian perspectives, then a comparison of the issues around mixed race and same-sex marriages. Quite a trip.

Comments

[carlamlee.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm doing that flist swap with linaelyn, just so you know I'm not some stranger stalker hunting you down and appearing from nowhere.

I'm really interested in the reading you're doing on "racializing on the net". Do you have any specific titles of books and/or articles that I could try to find at the local university? Actually, any titles for anything you've mentioned here would be wonderful. I wish I could take that course as well, it sounds very intriguing.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm doing that flist swap with linaelyn, just so you know I'm not some stranger stalker hunting you down and appearing from nowhere.

Hi! I did the flist swap last year, and am bummed that I'm probably too late to do it this year.

Do you have any specific titles of books and/or articles that I could try to find at the local university?

Sure, and actually I'll send you the articles themselves if you want. I can also send you our course reading list, and e-mail any of the articles that you find interesting (and that I have - some are on reserve at our library).

The titles of the cyber-racism articles are
Jerry Krang, "Cyber-Race," (2000) 113 Harvard Law Review 1130

and

Margaret Chon, "Erasing Race? A Critical Race Feminist View of Internet Identity Shifting," (2000) 3 J. Gender Race & Just. 439

[carlamlee.livejournal.com]

I would love the articles and the course reading list and anything else you have available. This is excellent, thank you so much!

My email address is seeksadventure @ gmail . com. Again, thank you, I'm just thrilled with this!

[bandgeek.livejournal.com]

Hmm ... re: racializing on the net, I suppose I do it more just because I'm a white female, and that's how I relate to a personality when I don't know much about them. On the other hand, maybe I'm just a horrible ethnocentrist and don't even know it ... ;)