links for 2007-03-26
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Mel Gibson Goes Ballistic — “Lady, F**k Off!”
Thx Tereza! “Mel Gibson exploded in anger last night on a college campus after an expert on Mayan culture accussed him of racially stereotyping the Mayans in the movie “Apocalypto.”"
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Meet the Mandingos – Details Blog
Thx Latoya! “Within an hour or so, the guests—23 white couples and 3 black couples—have arrived, all of them here specifically to have sex with single black men often a decade or two their junior…They call themselves Mandingos. And this is a Mandingo party.”
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Forming a Hate Group – PrideSource
Thx Tereza! “The leaders are not wild men driven wild by their sick racism,” Ezekial said. “What they really are, are people looking for power.”
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Despite controversy, Disney could unlock ‘Song of the South’ – staugustine.com
Thx Sylvia! “the movie remains hidden in the Disney archives — never released on video in the United States and criticized as racist for its depiction of Southern plantation blacks. The film’s 60th anniversary passed last year without a whisper”
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Multiracial mirrors – Orlando Sentinel
Thx Geraly! Tiger Woods and Barack Obama. “Their intersecting stories give us a compass for charting America’s changing geography of race, culture and identity. Both men position themselves across old black-white lines in a new hybrid model of multiracial
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Viewpoint: What’s wrong with ‘Irish I was sober’ – Viewpoints
Thx Geraly! “This student, who most likely is not Irish, was wearing a shirt that perpetuates an incredibly negative stereotype about my heritage. Because I’m considered the white majority, am I somehow not worth political correctness?”
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Shirley Q: comedy in error? – Kentucky.com
Thx Krys! “He is also the man behind Shirley Q. Liquor, a black welfare mother with 19 children, whom he plays in a pink wig, vibrant eye shadow and a liberal slathering of dark-skin foundation.”
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Racial incidents in Eugene drive lesson home to Portland students – OregonLive.com
Thx Mark! “Roosevelt High School students…learned a painful, real-world lesson about intolerance last week when a rainbow coalition of their classmates encountered hostile supporters from three other schools during the state boys basketball tournament i
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Jun Zuniga wrote:
http://www.petitiononline.com/sots1946/petition.html
Looks like a lot of folks love consuming Disney products…and stereotypes.
Posted 26 Mar 2007 at 2:29 pm ¶
Susan A wrote:
Oh my- Multiracial Mirrors was so cliche, so full of turgid, feel-good, purple prose, so utterly gag-inducing. The author has provided a prototype for how to write 1,000 words about race without saying anything substantive at all.
Posted 26 Mar 2007 at 8:05 pm ¶
Brad wrote:
Does anyone have any info on the Irish bloggers claim of Irish slaves? As a person of Irish descent I would like to research this.
Posted 26 Mar 2007 at 8:40 pm ¶
kw wrote:
Brad: Most histories of colonial American will include information on Irish indentured servitude, including the (relatively small) number of servants who were captured in English colonial wars against Ireland and Scotland and sent to work in even more far- flung colonial plantations as prisoners-of-war. (Big, big issue for certain Irish- American people.) Pay attention to mention of “British” servants as opposed to “English”- sometimes it is not clear whether Irish, Scottish, or English people are being talked about. Indentured servants and their children born into servitude would become free after a certain number of years of work, if they didn’t die in the meantime.
Two web sites that seem reasonably well researched are:
http://www.swan.ac.uk/history/teaching/teaching%20resources/PlaguetoAids/studentpaper2003/hanna.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servant
I don’t think that’s what the blogger is talking about, though – he’s more focussed on 19th century nativist attitudes towards Irish immigrants and how the nativists used rhetoric that compared immigrants to slaves. The book he mentions, “How the Irish Became White”, is pretty good, but any history of “whiteness” in 19th century America will discuss the same issues.
Posted 27 Mar 2007 at 3:03 pm ¶