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Comment on curiosities by omalone1

omalone1 — Mon, 07 May 2012 11:26:36 +0000

that explains why they love to touch our “hair”

Comment on among the ruins something is born by omalone1

omalone1 — Wed, 02 May 2012 09:27:53 +0000

G Wiz, after 3 years of not knowing, yesterday I made a breakthrough (and completed the second phase of editing.)

It appears that he was quoting Aime Césaire. Moreover, it seems that James Baldwin used this same quote in “more notes on a native son”.

We know that biko used the pseudonym ‘frank talk’ for a while, prior to being revealed, however, my feeling is that he quoted Césaire directly, as opposed to lifting it from Baldwin (who happens to use a little more of the quote.)

P.s. I’m taking Baldwin’s word as it might be difficult to locate the text the quote is from, owing to translations etc.

Comment on among the ruins something is born by edwardcav

edwardcav — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:14:54 +0000

No idea either. Perhaps Biko has given himself some poetic, anti-racist licence so that he can channel the colonial mentalite without actually citing it ‽

Comment on among the ruins something is born by omalone1

omalone1 — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:11:36 +0000

I’m editing a manuscript and the funny thing is, I’m wondering the same thing. I know that biko twice quotes fanon however I am not sure who he quotes here.

P.s. later, in the book, he quotes another writer who says something like “there is no way of stopping fools from dedicating themselves to useless causes.” Not sure who this is either?

Comment on among the ruins something is born by omalone1

omalone1 — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:08:25 +0000

Comment on khoisan language revival by emsyafiq

emsyafiq — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 04:21:57 +0000

I wouLd liKe to read the report of this particular study on Khoisan Language Revival. Thank You in advance…..

Comment on patrick wolfe to tequila sovereign on settler colonialism as scholarly enterprise by teresa

teresa — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:27:24 +0000

What I am eager to hear discussed further is the recommendation Wolfe makes for us to “write in the total context of inscription” (rather than “writing in the agency of the subaltern”)…From Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology (1999:214)

Thoughts??

Comment on cfp: collaborative struggle by Marcelo Svirsky

Marcelo Svirsky — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 08:27:58 +0000

You are right; we do need people to resist. But it is not only about numbers, but about what those minorities produce, by working toghether. And they produce the future, they make of Utopia – as Jameson insists – a praxis.

Comment on cfp: collaborative struggle by Magid Shihade

Magid Shihade — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 07:14:50 +0000

Dear Marcelo,
I did not mean to say that the struggle against Zionist Jewish Apartheid should be the property or duty of only Palestinians. As for joined work with Jews, it will be great if it happens, as it is so far ( after 64 yrs) only few Jews in Israel/Palestine have been willing to give up supremacist privileges. Pappe himself left the country because of that as he found it difficult to find minimum tolerance by Jews for Jews who want to work for justice. Of course it is a structure that we are working against, but for structures to be maintained, in fact to exist in the first place, they need people to do that.
Hopefully enough number of people will be willing in the future to give up their supremacist privileges and join the struggle for justice in Palestine and everywhere else.

Comment on cfp: collaborative struggle by Marcelo Svirsky

Marcelo Svirsky — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 06:28:58 +0000

Still don’t agree Magid. As nations, your classification is right. But this is exactly the problem: this classification doesn’t leave much options – either you are a Palestinian or a Jew. I refuse to be neither of them.
The struggle is against oppression. At one regional focus it is against Zionism, while at another might be, more generally, against capitalism. But it is always a struggle against oppression, not against people. It is a struggle to shape and bring about new ways of life. To promote this struggle we need to do it collaboratively. The conference, as the reality on the ground, is not waiting for ‘future’ collaborations. These collaborations exist already, in fact they always exist. To ‘keep’ the struggle as the possession of the colonised is to remain within the boundaries of colonial thought. To put it more extremely: the demand to keep the struggle against Zionism as a pure Palestinian issue is equivalent to the Zionist demand to keep the Jewish holocaust as a pure Jewish issue, which in fact is a universal one.
Marcelo