Hi

You’re probably going to be wanting to look into the ties between commerce, kinship systems, and law to develop a more comprehensive sense of these things and a more historically grounded concept of racism, gender, and class struggle. I’ll try and recommend a (mostly) chronologically ordered group of texts that can give you the basics.

Overall theoretical framework:

The Combahee River Collective Statement

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations by Karl Marx

Development of domination:

Pathology of Patriarchy by Sanyika Shakur

A People’s History of Civilization by John Zerzan

Myths of Male Dominance by Eleanor Burke Leacock

The Metamorphoses of Kinship by Maurice Godelier

Slavery and Social Death by Orlando Patterson

The history of Western civilization:

Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization by Robert A. Williams Jr.

The Early Growth of the European Economy by Georges Duby

Law and the Rise of Capitalism by Michael Tigar

Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany by Lyndal Roper

The Making of New World Slavery: From Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 by Robert Blackburn

Global capitalism:

Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire

Columbus and Other Cannibals by Jack D. Forbes

Americanity as a Concept, or the Americas in the Modern World-System by Aníbal Quijano and Immanuel Wallerstein

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Truth/Power/Freedom by Sylvia Wynter

How to re-theorize class struggle:

The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic by Peter Limbaugh and Marcus Rediker

The Secret History of Gender: Women, Men, and Power in Late Colonial Mexico by Steve J. Stern

Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis

Scenes of Subjection by Saidiya Hartman

The Wages of Whiteness by David Roediger

What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America by Peggy Pascoe

The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America by Michael Taussig

Ch'ixinakax utxiwa: On Decolonising Practices and Discourses by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui

Family, Welfare, and the State: Between Progressivism and the New Deal by Mariarosa Dalla Costa

Look upon my hoard and weep! For I have obtained the very vintage word roots curriculum that was used to teach me roots over 15 years ago. I am barely older than these books. And yet? They're still amazing!

They teach roots explicitly in a structured and systematic manner. They're cumulative. They do not focus solely on one part of a word, but rather the meaning of the word as a whole. Prefixes, suffixes, roots – everything is included! These are important roots to learn! Everything in school and beyond is easier when you know roots!

Like yes I can successfully educate you but is it worth all that work every time

Can't you just believe me

(And you run an educational blog so you have to know)

everyone needs to hear about the situation in india right now. the youth of this nation are going through hell and back to protect the foundations that our country was built on in the first place, while the adults who are supposed to actually be in charge try to silence our voices.

NEET, which is an exam taken by millions of students per year and is the ONLY gateway for medical admissions across the country, had its papers leaked. so many took their lives because this exam meant everything for their future. and NTA, the agency who conducts this exam, was not held accountable.

there was national backlash. cockroach janta party (initially a satirical political party formed by abhijeet dipke in retaliation to the remarks of the chief justice of india calling the youth "cockroaches" and "parasites of society") started protests at jantar mantar, demanding the resignation of the union education minister, dharmendra pradhan. the movement also asked for ten million inr (~100,000 usd) in compensation for the families of students who died by suicide and wanted NTA be held accountable.

sonam wangchuk, a climate activist and education reformer, also went on a hunger strike at jantar mantar to protest against this corruption in india's higher education system. his fast began on june 28, demanding the resignation of the union education minister. his fast lasted for 20 days until delhi police FORCIBLY removed him and admitted him to safdarjung hospital on july 18.

because of this, cockroach janta party announced "chalo sansad," a march to the parliament beginning on june 20th, 9:00 am ist. but the police seems to be responding with water cannons, mobile jammers, and baton charge. all of this, because of a peaceful protest led by people no older than 30.

He's not named in this NPRticle, nor in Getty:

I don't know why these sources in particular would hide a name if it was known, so now I'm wondering if THAT'S even who this man is.

The Arlington Historical Society says this on Nimrod Burke:

"Burke’s significance is that in many ways he typifies the core cadre of USCT NCOs — from the south but with a northern connection, free and literate before the war, and apparently “lighter” than most of his comrades (his descriptive roll gives his complexion as “mulatto”)"

But then they use THIS colorized version of the photo:

Now that's just people not paying attention.

That being said, I want to talk about my oc Fahari

Fahari has been with me since Middle School and she's very dear to me. She is obviously named after Wangari Maathai, a KENYAN enviromental and social activist who founded a nature organization named Green Belt Movement, and the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, it is such a shame that she will never get as much recognition.

A thing I also noticed while researching is the lack of BLACK oc's that are actually from African countries, I don't want to talk too much about this since I am not BLACK myself but I am pretty sure you could explain this much better than me.

About Fahari herself, she is by all means a sweetheart, always looking at the brighter side, but she is nowhere near dumb by any means, quite the opposite! She can read people extremely well, and bring many other people under the same goal. Her main flaw is that she puts on high expectations upon herself, and when she doesn't meet them she becomes closed off, and struggles to open back up. But she has her sister to ground her back down.

Anyway- I genuinely wish the best for you and your blog going forward! Thank you again!

So sorry for my mistake.

-Dawn

Doctors are to black women what police officers are to black men. That may seem controversial but I believe it to be true and I speak from personal experience.

If you've seen this TikTok you know that a 2016 study showed that 50% of medical students and residents thought that black people couldn't feel pain the same as white people.

And we learned from this video that because of a 1999 study, to this day, there's a black correction factor for the creatinin levels in black people's kidneys, meaning we're less likely to recieve a kidney transplant if needed.

So if you go to a doctor, feel you aren't getting proper treatment or they refuse the treatment you've requested, say to them the following:

If you weren’t already going to spread this advice because black women are at risk, then spread it because it’s applicable to everyone else as well, including you reading this.