Author Archives: Jack Stephens

Rebellious Arab Girl blogs:
This is an Arab news network (http:///www.iarabs.com) that takes articles from various Arab sites on the net. I guess I found it because I saw people linking to my articles from there. I joined and I love it.. Great place to read just Arab articles. I like it also because it […] Continue reading →

The fourth People of Color Scifi & Fantasy Carnival is up at Francie Doesn’t Like Coffee Ice Cream:
I’m starting off this edition of the People of Color Carnival with the question: what is common knowledge and whose knowledge is it?
Grada Kilomba begins the first day of class by asking her students questions about things which […] Continue reading →

Kai writes a post entitled “The White Liberal Conundrum:”
As I’ve often noted, many white liberals remain oblivious to the depth and breadth of anti-racist work, opting to hide behind the delusion that anyone who votes for Democrats and doesn’t have a pointy hood in the closet is “a good guy” in the movement toward greater […] Continue reading →

Zooey Live blogs about being a South Asian graduate student and South Asian Studies, one of her points is this:
[T]here is also something else which intrigues me about the South Asian departments. Something that’s also very visible in this class. So few of their students work on modern and/or contemporary South Asia. It’s not that […] Continue reading →

No Snow Here blogs:
Earlier this week, I saw a commercial on TV. Several shots of people saying things like “I am American,” “I am Korean,” and “I am Indian.” When I heard the words, “I am Israeli,” I shouted some expletives at the screen. WTF!? And I shouted some more expletives when I learned that […] Continue reading →

Ridwan comments on a recent commercial advertising the Rugby World Cup which is meant to conjure up images of the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, a racist movie from apartheid South Africa from the 1980s.  After explaining the concept of the movie and its white supremacist undertones the blogger goes on to explain the […] Continue reading →

Asabanga comments on the latest controversy caused by geneticist Dr. James Watson on his comments that Blacks are “naturally” inferior to whites:
He simply stated what is the widely held belief among those in the dominant “white” society. It is not the first time (nor the last) that science has been utilized to assert the inferiority of the […] Continue reading →

FAbulosa Mujer writes:
This here, I’m seeing more and more of. At 26 years-old, having been in the progressive circle for a couple of years now, mostly people of color and the few whites in positions of power in a nutshell this is what I see: when you’re new and excited about the work, always hopeful, […] Continue reading →