Interpretation(s) of Culture

“Everything within a settler colonial society strains to destroy or assimilate the Native in order to disappear them from the land - this is how a society can have multiple simultaneous and conflicting messages about Indigenous people are less indigenous than prior generations and that all Americans are a ‘little bit Indian’” (Tuck and Yang, 9).

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-forcibly-detained-native-alaskans-during-world-war-ii-180962239/

https://www.nps.gov/aleu/learn/historyculture/upload/mobley-aleut-book-lo_res.pdf

Article and book on the internment of the Aleut people 

https://phys.org/news/2019-12-d-museums-repatriation-decolonization-efforts.html

3D Printing used in repatriation and decolonization efforts 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV4yTgPCHHg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev6hBvTF38s

Videos explaining Marx's labor theory of value as well as the terms use-value and exchange-value 

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2017/08/150-years-das-kapital-relevant-marx-today-170817115417283.html

Article explaining the relevance of Marx's theory today

"Ambiguity, homophobia, stereotyping, confusion, doublethink, them versus us, blame the victim, wishful thinking: non of these popular forms of semantic legerdemain about AIDS is absent from biomedical communication" (16). 

Rumors and Realities: Making Sense of HIV/AIDS Conspiracy Narratives and Contemporary Legends

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4265931/

How the Coronavirus Has Infected Our Vocabulary

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/13/a-temporary-moment-in-time

"Sources outside biomedical science, however, have helped shape the discourse on AIDS. Almost from the beginning, through intense interest and informed political activism, members of the gay community have repeatedly contested the terminology, meanings and interpretations produced by scientific inquiry. Such contestations had occurred a decade earlier in the struggle over whether homosexuality was to be officially classified as an illness by the American Psychiatric Association. In the succeeding period, gay men and lesbians ad achieved considerable success in political organizing" (How to have Theory in Epidemic, 18).

https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/jces/vol8/iss1/4/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/04/06/coronavirus-is-different-aids/

A look at the extent to which communities affected by HIV/AIDS were reviled and stigmatized under the Reagan administration and how that does not compare to the treatment communities affected by COVID-19 under Trump's administration. The article does not discount Trump's racist and xenophobic remarks but exclaims that the damage done by the Reagan administration was far more severe and detrimental. 

http://fat-of-the-land.blogspot.com/2008/10/pining-for-pines.html

a blogpost explaining the cultural and culinary significance for matsutake 

Just something interesting I came across in terms of utilizing music for a magic mushroom research 

"Noticing inspires artists as well as naturalists." (Tsing 194)

TW: Discussion of murder and Black folks’ deaths, allusions to police brutality, gender-based violence

“Like Kate and Queens-bred rapper Nas, I also believe that when it comes to the story of Black girls in the Americas, ‘it was written.’ However, we diverge radically on the beginning and end of this mythic tale” (Shange 110-1). 

Crenshaw, Kimberlé. “The urgency of intersectionality.” Oct. 2016. Lecture. 

Shange, Savannah. Progressive Dystopia : Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco. Duke University Press Books, 2019.

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Say Their Names   

TW: Discussion of murders, violence, and Black folks’ deaths, allusions to police brutality and policing

@TrevonDLogan (adapted from someone else, author unknown). “Black people are so tired. A Roll Call Repost. We can’t go jogging (#AmaudArbery). We can’t relax in the comfort of our own homes (#BothemJean and #AtatianaJefferson).  We can't ask for help after being in a car crash (#JonathanFerrell and #Renisha McBride).  We can't have a cellphone (#StephonClark). We can't leave a party to get to safety (#JordanEdwards). We can't play loud music (#JordanDavis). We can’t sell CD's (#AltonSterling). We can’t sleep (#AiyanaJones) We can’t walk from the corner store (#MikeBrown). We can’t play cops and robbers (#TamirRice). We can’t go to church (#Charleston9). We can’t walk home with Skittles (#TrayvonMartin). We can’t hold a hair brush while leaving our own bachelor party (#SeanBell). We can’t party on New Years (#OscarGrant). We can’t get a normal traffic ticket (#SandraBland) We can’t lawfully carry a weapon (#PhilandoCastile) We can't break down on a public road with car problems (#CoreyJones) We can’t shop at Walmart (#JohnCrawford) We can’t have a disabled vehicle (#TerrenceCrutcher) We can’t read a book in our own car (#KeithScott). We can’t be a 10yr old walking with our grandfather (#CliffordGlover). We can’t decorate for a party (#ClaudeReese). We can’t ask a cop a question (#RandyEvans). We can’t cash our check in peace (#YvonneSmallwood).We can’t take out our wallet (#AmadouDiallo). We can’t run (#WalterScott). We can’t breathe (#EricGarner). We can’t live (#FreddieGray). We’re tired. Tired of making hashtags. Tired of trying to convince the world that our #BlackLivesMatter Tired of dying. Tired.” Twitter, 6 May. 2020, 8:39 p.m., https://twitter.com/TrevonDLogan/status/1258194797543723014.

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#WhiteFeels

“Finally, to rationalize her #WhiteFeels and the denial of Black subjectivity, Kate positions Robeson as a colonial settlement in which she has rightful dominion. Rather than a benevolent vision resonant with the ‘Community, Social Justice, Independent Thinkers’ mission of Robeson, Kate here advances a plainly imperial view of the school space: ‘This is not your school—it is our school’ (Shange 79). 

“In the afterlife of slavery, this ubiquity of enforcement has transmogrified into the figure of the white police officer, whose #WhiteFeels, closely related to #WhiteTears, is a hashtag used by race-con-scious social media users to highlight the fragility of white liberal allyship, and to more broadly critique the centering of white people’s emotional experiences at the experience of material costs to Black lives and lives of color. For more on #WhiteFeels, see Damon Young, ‘White Tears, Explained for White People Who Don’t Get It’” (Shange 79).

Article Savannah references: https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/white-tears-explained-for-white-people-who-dont-get-i-1822522689

Shange, Savannah. Progressive Dystopia : Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco. Duke University Press Books, 2019.

Young, Damon. “White Tears, Explained, For White People Who Don't Get It.” Very Smart Brothas, Very Smart Brothas, 29 Jan. 2018, verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/white-tears-explained-for-white-people-who-dont-get-i-1822522689. 

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IntegrateNYC 

IntegrateNYC is a “is a youth-led organization that stands for integration and equity in New York City schools” (IntegrateNYC). Please check out IntegrateNYC’s website: https://www.integratenyc.org/home/#introduction 

“[K]ids should be groomed for college, not prisons” (Shange 135). 

“Robeson Justice Academy pours immense resources into avoiding the school-to-prison pipeline through restorative justice and democratic practices, and yet still reenacts the logics of Black punition and disposability by counseling young people to transfer out of the school and criminalizing the border between the school and the neighborhood" (Shange 15). 

“IntegrateNYC Wins Recognition for Integration, Mik Moore Creates Funny Videos for a Good Cause, and More!” IntegrateNYC Wins Recognition for Integration, Mik Moore Creates Funny Videos for a Good Cause, and More!, mailchi.mp/socialinnovation/we-the-people2-1342489?e=d7fff9b334.