tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70831432012-02-16T20:24:30.591-06:00Rhetoric and RaceBemusedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502736947887510094noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083143.post-44565026183484246512007-10-02T12:07:00.000-05:002007-10-02T12:31:09.985-05:00Got myself together (yeah!)Following the time honored tradition (all 15 years of it) of academics in cyberspace looking for trouble and tenure, i'm going to do the ethnographic thing (like that technical talk, huh?) on a couple of high-profile Black websites. just completed an application for a publication workshop...i feel like my tenure clock is ticking madly. Not to mention, i dunno how much longer Hurricane Katrina Bemusedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502736947887510094noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083143.post-59195061621058751732007-09-27T14:00:00.000-05:002007-09-27T14:04:01.368-05:00Further thoughtsi don't know how any other recent PhD's feel, but having other people read my dissertation REALLY wracks my nerves. It's not that it isn't good - it is VERY good, if i may say so myself - but as i go through it, i realize that i could have expressed myself better in places. *sigh*anyhoo, my co-instructor really likes it, and has offered to mentor me through the process of turning it into a book.Bemusedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502736947887510094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083143.post-75165774474715116592007-09-23T16:30:00.000-05:002007-09-23T16:39:09.774-05:00Research Scrapbooki needed to find a place to backup my research idears and processes...then i realized that i already had a place where i used to do that.So i'm back.Current research idears:Black blogs and environmental justice - is anyone out there?revising the dissertation for publicationanybody studied BET.com or BlackPlanet.com?looking for a Black organization using technology in significant ways to keep its Bemusedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502736947887510094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083143.post-1100466891865318942004-11-14T15:00:00.000-06:002004-11-14T15:16:17.200-06:00Better Late than NeverI recently replied to some commentary on the Popcorn Privilege demonstration that i ran on campus a couple of weeks ago. Someone forwarded me a link to American Renaissance, a website dedicated to solving the problems of race (their words, not mine). Their problem with race is that the interests of other races seem to have been elevated higher than the interests of white people. this is borneBemusedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502736947887510094noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083143.post-1100211341121676412004-11-11T15:53:00.000-06:002004-11-11T16:15:41.120-06:00Crackers for BlacksSo I'm at a local fast food spot, waiting on my chili order and the Black Sister who brings it to me asks me if I want crackers. I say "no" to which she replies, "What? No crackers? Are you Black?"
There it is again - The Blackness question. I guess that it says something about my Blackness that I didn't even know that eating crackers with chili was a stereotype of Black folks. I didn't Pnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083143.post-1099941737300677732004-11-08T13:17:00.000-06:002004-11-08T13:22:17.300-06:00The Quick Hitdid you know that Michael Moore had people filming in Ohio during Election Day? Did you know that they posted a quick hit of their footage? You can check it out here.
**Found while while roaming the Boing Boing website.
i'll be back later with comments on this footage...it's so rich (Jesse actually says something powerful!) Bemusedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502736947887510094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083143.post-1099685336550925022004-11-05T13:37:00.000-06:002004-11-05T14:13:46.213-06:00Inching back from despair...Why despair? because i came across this piece of shit today which perfectly summed up why i feared a Bush election (i refuse to call it a re-election):
The Democrats are now talking about how this is a signal that Bush should “bring the country together”. Translated into American, this means “now that you’ve won, you should surrender to us.” The hell with that. We’ve won. Winning means not Bemusedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502736947887510094noreply@blogger.com154tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083143.post-1099679605147361702004-11-05T13:09:00.000-06:002004-11-05T12:35:46.370-06:00Republicans and Political correctnessGeneralization: I get the impression that Republicans have beef with the notion of political correctness. Many find it oppressive to free speech. That being said, here is an example of how the current administration proves that resistance to political correctness is in bad faith:
How you gonna have a Department of Homeland Security and a Department of Defense at the same time? Don't they mean thePnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083143.post-1095547817779096222004-09-18T17:07:00.000-05:002004-09-18T17:50:17.780-05:00Not quite disillusioned...but not far from it either.As i mentioned before, i'm chasing a PhD in Library and Information Studies. in my CMC course the other day, we were reviewing articles on online culture - some good, some bad. One of the articles was "The Rhetorical Dynamics of Gender Harassment Online"Information Society 15 (1999) by Susan Herring, who's a pretty big deal in CMC.
Briefly, Herring looks at two excerpts of conversations Bemusedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502736947887510094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083143.post-1094935057447727262004-09-11T15:25:00.000-05:002004-09-11T15:39:29.580-05:00Let's get it started....from the Afrofuturism listserve....
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 13:33:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Art McGee
Subject: Am I Black?
> i want you to convince me that you're black.
Hey, this wasn't directed at me, but it's still a good
question. How do I signify that I'm Black in a virtual
medium with no visual cues, when Blackness has become
so commodified that many non-Black people Bemusedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502736947887510094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083143.post-1093404546983615892004-08-24T21:50:00.000-05:002004-08-24T22:31:12.276-05:00A Shout out to the LocalsAs I sit here alone on the eve of the upcoming school year, I am trying to mentally prepare myself for what lies ahead of me. Term papers, tons of reading (in one class I have 10 required books plus 7 recommended readings, yikes!!!), not to mention seeing clients, research projects, and lots of grading are all in my very near future. Just thinking about it all makes me anxious. I also realized Miss Moninoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083143.post-1093039960515702652004-08-20T17:11:00.000-05:002004-08-20T17:35:48.133-05:00a return is imminentnow that the summer is closing, i can return my attention to this space. funny how summer is the most hectic time for grad students, what with trying to make sure the rent is paid while your fellowship is on hiatus.
in any case, thanks to ian over at Different Kitchen for the shout - i always enjoy reading your stuff, man.
i'll close with just a couple of things that have been on my mind Bemusedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502736947887510094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083143.post-1090797853416214302004-07-25T18:08:00.000-05:002004-07-25T18:29:10.313-05:00Once again: Who is Black?So I'm at this Black political convention in Chicago and there is this cat there who appears to me to be White, but I am not certain. He also had an accent which sounded British to me. At one point another attendee indicates to me that this individual should not have been allowed up in the spot. As it turns out this man who appears to be White is Dennis Brutus, who is an emeritus professor of Pnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083143.post-1088966303215403932004-07-04T13:37:00.000-05:002004-07-04T13:38:23.216-05:00A Dissenter Speaksi've been stewing over the Cosby speech (now speeches) for a while now. in my inarticulate rage, i've been trying to figure out just why the Cos' words irk my last nerve so badly. some of it rests upon the definition my friends and i came up with to define the axis of black culture: we decided that the one trait all blacks had in common was a shared experience of oppression. that trait Bemusedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502736947887510094noreply@blogger.com139tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083143.post-1088338321316087802004-06-27T06:59:00.000-05:002004-06-27T07:12:01.316-05:00Late, late, late nightsso...i wuz drinking Sparks (which i'm nominating for "Caffeine Replacement of the Millennium") while writing a paper last night. it's now 7 AM and i CAN'T GO TO SLEEP. so i started updating our Links section, which might explain why i found myself on Debra Dickerson's weblog. I cain't stand her Booker T.-esque views on race (see her book) - but that's a discussion for another day containing Bemusedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502736947887510094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083143.post-1087844562086886482004-06-21T13:52:00.000-05:002004-06-21T14:02:42.086-05:00An Interesting PerspectiveBelow is an article that was sent to me. I found the author's perspective to be intriguing. Even though I might not be totally in line with everything that he is saying, I thought he made some valid points. I would be interested to hear what anyone else thinks about what he has to say.
Miss Moni
Commentary: No Handouts: Open Up the Door and we’ll get it Ourselves
Date: Sunday, June 20, 2004Miss Moninoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083143.post-1085427548372259082004-05-24T14:30:00.000-05:002004-05-24T14:39:08.373-05:00My wife said it best...Kanye is a producer, not a rapper. we are in agreement on this one: although he's topical and at times even hilarious, his delivery leaves something to be desired.
My pick for best hip-hop/rap album of the year so far? Cee-Lo Green is the Soul Machine. College Dropout is damned good - even though it brings up the question "why producers never save their best beats for themselves" - and the Bemusedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502736947887510094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083143.post-1085426975855018912004-05-24T14:11:00.000-05:002004-05-24T14:29:35.856-05:00so this is why i'm a professor in trainingbecause it's 75 degrees and sunny while i surf the web at panera, suckas!
granted, i'm a barely-functional member of an exploited underclass (read: PhD student), but i CHOSE this life. it went a little like this:
after f*ckin around tryin to be grown, i finished my undergraduate degree Magna Cum Laude/Phi Beta Kappa in 2001. my choices were: go work my liberal arts degree into a better jobBemusedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502736947887510094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083143.post-1085370152429466262004-05-23T22:08:00.000-05:002004-05-23T22:50:10.216-05:00by way of introductionimma write this in as conversational a style as possible, so you grammar fiends and Ebonics-phobes please step the f*ck back. this space is where i plan to ramble about my two favorite obsessions: race and rhetoric. being that black culture is where my heart is, that's what i'll prolly talk bout the most - but other cultures (read: white) might crop up from time to time *evil grin*.
got an Bemusedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502736947887510094noreply@blogger.com0