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god najia this was like such a teaser for the scholarship abt racial logic & its history do you have any author names in mind that i can look up

I have a list of sources that are relevant to this on this post (I especially recommend the Fields essay–required reading if you’re looking into the origins of race imo). I know that another shift happened around the 1850s when “race” changed from being understood as an environmental phenomenon to being understood as a biological one–prior to this, people thought that environment created phenotype & therefore race, thus they were worried about European colonists “becoming Indian” just by virtue of living in the Americas, or thought that “black” people could become no longer “black” just by virtue of no longer being in Africa (look up “the case of Henry Moss”). over time though, as racialist science changed (perhaps with the visible evidence that “white” people had lived in the Americas for generations at this point and were not any less “white”), “race” began to be understood as something inherent & biological w/in a person or population. people even began to look in the Bible for evidence of “polygenesis” rather than “monogenesis”–the idea that the “races” had descended from one first human pair & had diverged because of their environment became briefly usurped (for some) with the idea that the different “races” were descended from different original progenitors (& some, of course, were thus “destined” to serve others). some of my classes have talked about this but I don’t have any readings about it off the top of my head

i thought this was about astrology

its where we put all our burned bridges and crossed hearts

not to be that bitch but intent has everything to do with actions that bear karmic fruit

copypasta is definitely still in internet vernacular. i know many people who still use it

would you say its worth watching ? that sounds like an interesting depiction

Yeah I really liked it. Its one of the most ambiguous movies I’ve seen and I mean that in a good way and its motivated me to check out Shusaku Endo’s other stuff.