Yongho Kim

Category: Freedom Movements

  • Transitions – I've Got the Light of Freedom

    transitions-ive-got-the-light-of-freedom.doc

    Payne, Charles M. 1995 Transitions In I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle. Pp. 284-316. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press.

    I’ve Got the Light of Freedom

    the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle

    Chapter Ten

    Transitions

    Before the summer project last year we watched five Negroes murdered in two counties in Mississippi with no reaction from the country. We couldn’t get the news out. Then we saw that when three civil rights workers were killed, and two if them were white, the whole country reacted, went into motion. There’s a deep problem behind that, and I think if you can begin to understand what that problem is-why you don’t move when a Negro is killed the same way you move when a white person is killed-then maybe you can begin to understand this country in relation to Vietnam and the third world, the Congo and Santo Domingo.

    BOB MOSES
    1965

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  • May Day 2006 and the Gulf War

    Before hitting Wilshire and Western at 4:00 pm, we are sitting in the lounge watching Fox News, which is broadcasting live rallies in Downtown and Santa Ana. That looks pretty hard to match up. Then we think of our plan for today.

    Ever heard CNN’s of live Gulf War broadcasting? Iraqui scud missile headquarters used CNN screens to fine-tune their targets.

    [Tags]immigration, immigrant, protests, rally, may day, may 1, los angeles, california[/Tags]

  • [DEBATE] peter waterman. International Marxist Embarassment Month?

    From: peter waterman
    To: “debate: SA discussion list”
    Cc: Virginia Vargas telefonica.net.pe
    Date: Apr 12, 2005 3:20 AM
    Subject: [DEBATE] : International Marxist Embarassment Month?

    If we need this kind (See Below) of gushing, this kind of emoting, this kind of identification between Trotskyism/Geuvarismo and particular contemporary individuals or parties, then I really think we should abandon Marxism for Catholicism.

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  • first I see this article on the pervasive…

    first, I see this article on the pervasive effects of Walmart in the city http://www.urbancartography.com/2005/02/die_walmart_die.html and, a commentor had told the writer to not be so blatant about his own “biases”, and mocked at the fact that his google adsense (content-specific text advertising) was showing ADS of Walmart. Indeed, next to the article criticizing Walmart, google picked up the keyword “Walmart”, and you can see a discount ticket offer for Walmart, getting jobs at Walmart, Walmart Store finder, Clearance, and so forth.

    then, I use gmail to send an email about our Freedom Movements class, and as I revise the email, this is the gmail ads that shows to the right:

    Sponsored Links

    Chaos Theory www.thechaostheory.com
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    Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision for overcoming racism in America

    more sponsored links »
    Related Pages
    Pastor cites importance of church in lives of blacks
    Durham Herald Sun – 7 hours ago
    BY PAUL BONNER : The Herald-Sun. DURHAM — Blacks’ quest for freedom …

    A win for Robinson
    Newsday – 5 hours ago
    Before the Supreme Court desegregated public schools, before …

    Identity Politics
    History of the political activity and theorizing founded in the …
    plato.stanford.edu

    The CLR James Institute: William Gorman: WEB Du Bois and His Work
    This is a remarkable document by William Gorman, whom C.L.R. James …
    www.clrjamesinstitute.org

    and I’m like, oh shit.

  • Superstructures and subaltern practices in the ANC and the SCLC

    Fredom Movements Essay 1
    February 23, 2005

    Andrew Ancheta
    Yongho Kim

    In his controversial book Black Marxism, Cedric Robinson argues that “the roots of Western racism took hold in European civilization well before the dawn of capitalism” (Kelley, 2000: 12). In a differing approach from George Frederickson to the overlaps of racism and capitalism in the occupation of America, Robinson points out that “… the tendency of European civilization through capitslim was thus not to homogenize but to differentiate – to exaggerate regional subcultural, and dialectical differences into “tacial” ones. (Robinson 26) The dilemma observed by the two intellectuals permeates the literature on the two movements that arose as a response to both instances of the system of white supremacy, as is expressed in King’s undecided observation: “Most of us are not capitalists, we’re just potential capitalists” (Garrow, 41)

    This paper examines the different social forces – racial makeup of the workforce, ideaological relationship to communism and forms of radical socialism, use of the church, and its position in the post-WW2 international political area – that surrounded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the African National Congress, and how these differences are manifested through strategies adopted by Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King and their advisors.
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  • class notes. freedom movements

    february 21, 2005
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  • after watching Malcolm X so when chicano activists…

    after watching Malcolm X

    so, when chicano activists say “we did not cross the border, the border crossed us”, are they borrowing from Malcolm X’s saying in the NYC church, “we did not come to Plymouth, Plymouth came to us”?

    the “did you know brother minister what so and so did before going to heaven? to eat” was sharp.

  • notes, freedom movements

    feb 14 notes
    freedom movements
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  • The Black Body as a feared Necessity in the Post-Industrial Urban Economy

    response paper to the Sixth Annual African American Studies Conference at Macalester College

    Freedom Movements
    February 16, 2005
    Yongho Kim

    In her keynote speech Democracy and Captivity, Joy Ann James argues that the prison-state constitutes the institution through which neoslave narratives are embodied in the United States. A neoslave narrative, James argues, is “a recycling of the fear/hate of the black body”, but in her use of the prefix neo, I think, she is also pointing out parallel structures of doxa regarding the slave and its relationship to the master in american public discourse, both during pre-“emancipation” and in the current times.

    As Rose Brewer and Nancy A. Heitzeg, and several other speakers/participants argue throughout the conference, the prison-state weaves itself closely together with the prison industrial complex, an economic structure aimed at squeezing a critical surplus required for sustained economic growth. With the rise of the post-industrial ghetto, white america fears and decimates the unnecessary black bodies while simultaneously depending on its cheap or free labor to sustain a new economy.

    In this paper, I trace the path of this development through a small sample of focus points in history and try to set the grounds for understanding the business downtown/inner city ring/suburb as an expression of neoslave narrative.
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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,

  • 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

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