Yongho Kim

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  • Bamboozled, Mandela, and the Dialectics of Racism-Capitalism. class notes

    AMST394-11 Freedom Movements. Class notes, Feb 7

    music played: Mbongan Nugema.

    how to find articles on Safundi, which spans a broader spectrum of research done on sa www.safundi.com/members/login.asp . rachleff )the dept?) purchased a semester-long access for the whole class. username: school, pass: here

    will announced first diversity weekend meeting. thursday 9pm, cc215

    african american studies conference. rachleff: don’t need to go to all of them, but that would be nice. write something creative and tie it together with the class materials.

    Bamboozled

    Will: issues of working middle class and racial representation
    Peter: agreed, but the two issues not related causally.
    Zach: capitalism creates racial caegories by need (black athletes)
    ref: Augusto Bael (theater of the oppressed)
    church (ft Spike lee)
    is the movie a self-criticism?
    basketball
    born black in SA is being political
    Alex F: careful in process of reclamation

    creation of representation
    appropriation -> make money
    how to connect material culture
    know to resist

    eric la black minstrelsy-> post industrialization
    white working class, use of slavery as a reference point
    “at least I’m not a slave”
    strong denial — (needs) –> reinforcement of perfoming the other
    30’s Dubios wrote a bio of John Brown

    20th C Baudeville & Broadway, black people playing minstrelsy
    Chapelle Show
    Lily L: hegemony: marginalize people’s participation, compromise peronsal for greater goals

    Zach: even in the black communities it is a tbaoo to go into “culture” fields
    Alex Rubinstein: structures of white supremacy alienate communties
    Alex F: (disagrees) families follow capital regardless
    Tennis Guy
    AFLO: but the colored/white divide in “artists”?
    E. hist.
    mau mau

    Rachel: david wolpes & spike lee
    Alessandra: Mandela on oppressive systems cannot be reformed, nikey commercials
    women not part of movements

    Peter: watch 4 girls, susan rose park
    AFLO: Delacroix assisted the process of PAC criticizing the ANC
    Will: p.20, Mau Mau reactionary masculinity women burning passes

    wolpe -> single women in towns
    Eugene Debs: sick Salvatore with Debs Hopes to go back what people react

    E. Hutchinson: Mandela is in prison, black consciousness -> young people come to him

    Rachel: Mandela’s position as a listener, heoized, did the PAC leave out of will or were they expelled from the movements?

    Alex Rubinstein: 1 million dollar corruption case, ANC is sinking

    Peter: last week we agreed capitalism has a role in white supremacy, has anyone challenged that?

    Camilo paris: b link,

    Patrick Bond is a white american who came to south africa for a citizenship

    Alex Rubinstein: W-A-R? Move your stretch
    journalist’s account in SA
    different exp
    need for violent protest
    how the black leadership was constructed intot the white government (homelands)
    use capital to alienate people

    Rachel: skilled/unskilled divide out of question in south africa

    P: in the 70’s two big issues: racism and vietnam. one group said those were “mistakes”

    issue: to understand the “mistakes” as integral part of the U.S. society

    P: what do we mean by “liberal”? approach to capitalism/racism
    Jared: National Liberation as a paradox
    Nicole: alternate systems. masculinity as part of a package
    Roladn McKay: Frederickson, Herrenvolk Democracy

    Alyssa: p.121 dialectical materialism, but Mandela doesn’t take on that anymore further in his actions

    WIll Clarke: National liberation, communist party black belt
    nation of islam in the ’30s.

    P: Mandela’s operating from a minority status. Pan-African nationalism

    Will: inside/outside the system. quote: within the system is the hierarchies of competition
    same situation in the u.s. capitalism

    malaysia
    too much crime, too much work ethic
    adanise, chinese

    (are stus less dev?)
    both movements from challenging capitalism
    are they engaging capitalism?
    inefficacy
    oft overlooked
    shana, economic and social agency
    sam great to move “up” sustains capitalism
    safety/ scarcity
    self-sufficiency
    eti lewis “home sphere” (church)
    Julia: Tarzan Ujama, 1950-60s

    no cognitive diffence between “reform” and “revolution”
    Sophie: Mandela’s otrobro not solely as reflection -> intended to soothe allies
    compassionate to oppressor (prison guard)
    R1 jaito: runs the workshop

    PR: tip

    def what is a liberal via park?
    cart transcripts -> only where to talk + nachie
    Nkrumah, Lumumba,

  • Condi says I think we have to…

    Condi says: “I think we have to view, at this point, the government of Venezuela as a negative force in the region” foxnews.com/story/0,2933,146472,00.html

    LatinoPundit wonders: “I can’t decide.” latinopundit.com/latino/archives/002146.html

    I think: The Man is trying to gather Star Wars fandom support!

  • notes, seminar. anthro in a nutshell

    handout:
    http://wiki.adelantemac.org/Anthropology_in_a_Nutshell

    british don’t like “culture” -> colonial mission, maintaining
    french -> things inside the head, rationalism

    foucault, levi strats -> like comets! they come and go
    LTAM new anthro, no impact

    school training is system-adaptive,
    thoughts extensions

    notes on the handout:
    culture -> cultivate
    ethnography=cultural anthro
    ethnology=comparative cross-cultural study of human cultures
    fight against racism: culture over race, public sphere

  • aurora levins morales

    aurora levins morales talk, 12:00pm

    sense of history -> resistance

    destruction of memory -> subjugation (makes oppressedness seem like a natural aspect of the peoples lives)

    self as an counterexample “adwomenster (sp)”
    Nelson Myers 1898, spanish war, great plains, arabian peninsula, immigrants

    Puerto Rico, intermediaries, the work of women, produce ginger, used for the working class (ginger bread) in Shakespeare’s England

    tiva arriving out of africa -> geographical/racial?

    Railroad women
    labor movement, struggles as anyone else

    antiwar activist
    67 left PR
    denied tenure in UPR
    76 Berkeley CA

  • RE: Freedom Movements Technology

    EDIT: good reference en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_software

    blah, I got tired of writing this. kind of pointless, anyway, now that the blog is up there. it’s just another semester of classes.
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  • film notes, bamboozled

    is Delacroix playing the west indian?
    misrep people?

    why is his room (the white boss) full of “negro” stuff?
    “variety skit show”

    boss at the middle, evaluators to the side, the performer in the middle
    is he wearing the arab stuff on purpose?
    urgency/diff

  • anth380 sexual networks in jefferson school article

    Medical Anthropology class,

    this is the coverage on the study of high school romantic and sexual networks that I mentioned today in class. This is the link to the paper:

    Chains of Affection: The Structure of Adolescent Romantic and Sexual Networks
    Peter S. Bearman, Columbia University
    James Moody, Ohio State University
    Katherine Stovel, University of Washington
    www.sociology.ohio-state.edu/jwm/chains.pdf

    Ohio State University has a press release summarizing the findings:

    RESEARCHERS MAP THE SEXUAL NETWORK OF AN ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL
    researchnews.osu.edu/archive/chains.htm

    as I explained in class, the paper studies sexual behavior of jefferson high school students and how they form a network of sorts, that sprawls fairly uniformly compared to adult sexual behavior. They do so via a number of confidential surveys conducted in 1995. Researchers concluded that

    unlike many adult networks, there was no core group of very sexually active people at the high school. There were not many students who had many partners and who provided links to the rest of the community. (Grabmeier citing Moody’s conclusion, in the press release above)

    I saw this paper mentioned in zamzzi.com, a south corean blog loosely linked to an online sex toys/supplies store maintained by the same person. The posting, in turn, was referring to a news article in NaverNews [네이버뉴스] and originally developed by Chosun.com [조선일보].

    This is how it was intially portrayed in the south corean press:


    Caption: Sexual Relationship Strucutre of Jefferson High Students. Blue=male students, Red=female students. “2건” stands for “2 cases”. “63쌍” stands for “63 couples”.
    Source: 윤희영, chosun.com 25/01/05. 288명이 性관계로 연결: 미국고교생 실태 표본조사 832명중 126명만 ‘1대1’
    [Heeyung, Yoon. 288 people were sexualy networked: only 126 out of 832 high school students were in a “1 on 1 relationship” in a U.S. high school students sample research.]
    article: www.chosun.com/international/news/200501/200501250338.html
    same artice: news.naver.com/news/read.php?mode=LSD&office_id=023&article_id=0000109820

    It is of interest how this chart was initially pictured in the paper:


    From the American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 100, No. 1. “Chains of affection: The structure of adolescent romantic and sexual networks,” Bearman PS, Moody J, Stovel K.

    south corean blog entry commenting on the story: zzamzi.com/tt/index.php?pl=195
    another blog entry: Roland Piquepaille. The Sexual Network of a High School primidi.com/2005/01/27.html

    It struck me how several reactions to the coverage at naver.com (which caters to a young readership, mostly in their late 20’s) were expressing “disappointment” (huh?) at how far “sexually perverted” the U.S. society was from what they had imagined it to be. There was abundant attack on the existence of homosexuals and “cheap girls” as portrayed by the chart. In part, I think, this has to do with how the study was portrayed (the subtitle was emphasizing how “only” 13% of the population was in a single relationship) The more conservative chosun.com did not receive any readership reaction.

    zamzzi.com’s article gave it a more positive spin, focusing on the fact that the research suggested a honest solution to the realities of high schools in the u.s. Readership reaction were on a similar tone as well.

    anyway, I wanted to point out that the professor’s observation that “when you engage in sexual intercourse with a person, STD-wise this implies engaging in sexual intercourse with every single person that that person has had an intercourse with, and in turn with every person that those people have had an intercourse with, and so forth” was portrayed in a dramatically more graphic fashion with the blue dots/red dots chart. Ah, this has nothing to do with the elections (I think)

  • anth490 sample letter to prospective employer

    Assignment: Write a one-page introduction of yourself to a specific, prospective employer or graduate school.

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  • movements, notes. capitalism

    class notes. jan 31. freedom movements

    fr nights, Golden town

    Mapantsula
    visual imagery
    thrown out of the window
    Themba
    “John” speaking Afrikaans
    english had subtitles (also aimed at non-english speaking native audience)
    1976 Soweto’s school students boycott Afrikaans language

    Afrikaans develops not to be understood by masters? but why don’t they speak it then?

    violence / peaceful resolution

    Duck
    1. lower middle class
    2. tails cat the N

    Manning Marable: Race is the modality through which class is expressed.

    Nothing but a man – filmmakers are white
    violence: Tactially to attract (white) sympathy

    every slave had to be zambo =//= need to be tamed?
    Lily: nothing but a man “north” as a safe place
    Pathe: Film noir detective, anti hero (Rosenberg?)
    Priest
    Social history -> women making “stuff” possible
    movement history

    (leola Johnson) extradiotigenic personality
    on Abby Lincoln 1963

    Jesse Goldman on Black Marxism, Cedric Robinson
    freedommovements.blogspot.com/2005/02/linking-racism-and-capitalism-robinson.html
    -Theoretical background: racism & capitalism -> formation of europe
    racism predates capitalism -> influences
    immigratory movements in Africa care about work places of works
    going to another place slavs as natural slaves
    capitalism comes from a social order (racism)
    capitalis is a process of “heteroginization”

    Zach Cheema on Harold Wolpe
    freedommovements.blogspot.com/2005/02/harold-wolpe-capitalism-and-cheap.html
    (P: racial and labor control in tension)
    white domination
    1. capitalist -less pay >>>> anti-capitalis (less efficiency)
    2. af-am / blacks in SA
    af-am considered inferior
    sa considered equals
    Wolpe is fixating in making Apartheid separate from segregation
    strategies to create breaches among black/white workers

    Jonathan Fredor
    Cooper. black ideology
    songs of Zion Tiembo
    (P: Cooper doesn’t like Frederickson)
    doesn’t walk much about U.S.
    criticizes on mechanical comparison, too much white perspective (no black agency)
    interested in how religions and ideology works

    Shula Marks
    freedommovements.blogspot.com/2005/02/white-supremacy-review-shula-marks.html
    -highest agers of white supremacy, John S.
    marks is SA historian
    doesn’t like comparative historical method
    generalizing is bad
    not enough info
    George Frederickson had historical inaccuracies

    Peter: comparative history is only done through a U.S. lens, and when you look at Safundi for example, more broad comparisons (brasil, etc) is done

    I brought up racism and racialism from Anthony Appiah, and said Robinson is opposed to Frederickson.

    group discussion
    (what makes a slave) christians are enslaved too, white slaves
    1900-1942
    rights in he americas
    colored in SA, frederickson p.133

    Alessandra Williams on Manning Marable
    freedommovements.blogspot.com/2005/02/how-capitalism-underdeveloped-black.html
    phenotype condition
    black migration
    common worldview was destroyed
    white working class gave up
    George Lukacs -> racism
    whitenes -> took hold off of whiteness
    (P: prof of Af-Am in Columbia)

    Leonard Thompson -> good overview
    freedommovements.blogspot.com/2005/02/thompson-history-of-south-africa.html

    • segregation of homelands

    -blacks created their own economic world, niches
    -ANC formation

    Marable & Homeland LEadership

    Lily on Phil Bonner
    http://freedommovements.blogspot.com/2005/02/bonner-delius-posel-shaping-of.html
    Apartheid’s genesis in the 20th C
    processes of social history
    (district 6 was bulldozed after 1946)

    peter: per books, demographic (b/w in sa/am)
    smilarities

    A. Randolph: WWII as a war on racism, going to DC asking for equal jobs
    no jobs! poor jobs

    SA there are jobs, no political power
    structures & mandela/king

  • RE: Blantant misuse of a paper that I wrote

    Err, I sent this to you via email, then I recalled I had a BLOG (uh…)

    ========

    Andrew,
    so, I try to comment on your

    Blantant misuse of a paper that I wrote
    andrewsw.com/news/index.php?p=913

    and your comment spam detector thinks I am a spammer. I logged into your blog, with no luck. ):

    ================

    First, my condolences.

    I’ll vent a bit on something similar that happened recently in the south korean blogging circles regarding a web-based RSS feeding service (Daum RSSNet, rss.daum.net) that benchmarked bloglines.

    Something very similar to what was happening to you was done by Daum, and people complained their names were not showing up in the website, etc etc. Do you know what some bloggers suggested in a counterargument?

    1) That it was actually good for them because they were getting publicity (how?)
    2) That following the copyleft tradition, every single blogger on earth should let their stuff flow freely across the internet.
    3) That blogs were designed to be publicly open since they had features such as trackbacks and RSS feeding, and if people didn’t like them (if they didn’t want to be widely publized at the whims of corporations) that they should move over closed, ActiveX based, fucked up private community CMS platforms.

    Bastards.
    Yup, I just bitched about yellow peoples’ problems in front of a white guy. In english. Sue me.

    Ok, I’m done bitching.

    Now back to your case.

    Credit: TechRepublic is being an ass, but doesn’t it look like the problem in the Michigan State U Boad of Trustees? I mean, Tech Republic saw it there, it was listed as authored by MSUBT, and so they gave credit. They
    might not have found your version first. Didn’t they do all that was expected for fair use standards? It seems like MSUBT need to rectify whatever they did with your paper.

    Login: that’s messed up. I’m not sure if that violates any existing law, though. Of course it violates common sense, but customary law doesn’t apply intranational, or?

    Public domain: I just don’t get it that TechRepublic calls your paper a “white paper” and that “they are publicly available on the internet” for the sole fact that your paper is avaliable at YOUR website. There should be a
    semantic difference between the POSSIBILITY of going public and the FACT of being public, the two of them being usually linked together, but not necessarily requiring each other.

    So your papaer is factualy public, but that doesn’t necessarily imply you are giving it free rein (in particular, to be used for commercial or pseudocommercial purposes) in terms of distribution. Some people confuse the two. Some people, blatantly disregard the difference and question back, “what’s wrong with what I did?”

  • on squashed philosophers

    So today at del.icio.us , this is a site that has been linked 670+ times:

    Glyn Hughes’ Squashed Philosophers
    The books which defined the way The West thinks now
    Condensed and abridged to keep the substance, the style and the quotes, but ditching all that irritating verbiage
    www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/

    There’s nothing new in making condensed versions of the classics. What is different here is that these are neither the opinion of one person nor mere extracts. Instead, each has begun with a very wide analysis of quotations, citations and, especially, past examination papers (including UK A-Levels back to 1976), to establish which passages, which phrases, which lines, which words and which ideas, are generally considered the most important
    www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/about.htm

    Three words:

    Brave New World

    ugh

  • the definitive problem in information distribution

    the biggest problem (as in setting up various kinds of media for the SOLE PURPOSE of exposing promotional stuff received through email) facing ¡Adelante!, and other small organizations, is that they distribute OPEN information (events) in a CLOSED environment (emails) that are limited in their expository potential given they can ONLY propagate through a forwarded email.

    aha.

    we need set up a public email account.

    like this groups.yahoo.com/group/adelantemac2

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