March 2012
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February 2012
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: Attack of "Beaver 55" →
mn70s:
Seven Members of the Anti-War “Minnesota 8,” Several of Whom Carried Out the “Beaver 55” Raid (Photo by Cheryl Walsh Bellville)
On February 28, 1970, several anti-war activists calling themselves “Beaver 55” broke into three Twin Cities Selective Service offices and destroyed thousands of…
Junot Diaz Announces New Book →
jeevermadness:
Díaz returns to the short story form and focuses on the topic of love in This Is How You Lose Her, scheduled for a Sept. 11 release. A description from Riverhead books:
The stories in This Is How You Lose Her, by turns hilarious and devastating, raucous and tender, lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weaknesses of our all-too-human hearts. They capture the heat of...
Saturday is Pretty Brown Girl Day! →
“Yes, it would be worthwhile to study clinically, in detail, the steps taken by...”
– Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism
पद्मिनी: Color-Blind Ideology and the Cultural... →
lotus-eyes:
Color-Blind Ideology and the Cultural Appropriation of Hip-Hop
This article examines how white youths culturally appropriate hip-hop by adhering to the demands of color-blind ideology. Using ethnographic methods and interviews of members in a local hip-hop scene, I argue that colorblind…
: A Domed City for Northern Minnesota? →
mn70s:
Early Artist Conception of the Minnesota Experimental City
On February 12, 1973, an obscure state agency called the Minnesota Experimental City (MXC) Authority announced that it wanted to build a new city—with a population of a quarter of a million people—in northern Minnesota’s Aitkin…
“Intellectual alienation is a creation of middle-class society. What I call...”
– Frantz Fanon/ Black Skin, White Masks
M.I.A. Shouldn’t Have Apologized : The New Yorker →
The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve been tired out by before. M.I.A. was illustrating her line, acting out the attitude of the words: performing. Fine, it may not be legal to flip the bird on television, but that’s simply a remnant of the fifties we haven’t shaken. Unless somebody was handing out Xanax with the foam fingers, Lucas Oil Stadium was...
