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jlandrith
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 Posted: Sun 12 Feb 2006 07:44 Post subject: Multirace.com: Multiracial Cyberspace |
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The book "The Politics of Multiracialism: Challenging Racial Thinking", contains a chapter called Multirace.com: Multiracial Cyberspace written by Erica Chito Childs (http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/socio/faculty/childs.html), which focuses primarily on Interracial Voice and The Multiracial Activist.
I do not possess a copy of the book, but the little bit of it I've been able to sample at Google Book Search (http://books.google.com) gives the impression it is a bit of hatchet job. Childs paints both IV and TMA as anti-black and deems it unfortunate that IV and TMA have such a large following. It appears we have the wrong political views, too much media attention, and are too willing to tackle "white" and "black" bigotry equally. Apparently, only one type of bigotry should be countered.
Once I've read her chapter in full, I'll be rebutting any misinterpretations and outright falsehoods in a commentary at TMA.
Anyone read the book (edited by Heather Dalmadge)? |
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Powell
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| Posted: Sun 12 Feb 2006 19:06 Post subject: Academics and the Multiracial Movement |
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I haven't seen ONE academic book or article that wasn't a total distortion of the movement's history and purpose.
The fact that these "scholars" dare to write about IV and TMA without even bothering to interview Charles Byrd and James Landrith tells you something about their intellectual dishonesty. |
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chasbyrd
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| Posted: Tue 21 Mar 2006 01:37 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Childs paints both IV and TMA as anti-black... |
While I have criticized the self-appointed black political leadership -- when exactly was Jesse Jackson elected President of Black America? -- I have taken care not to condemn the black populace in general. Unfortunately, some equate any negative critique of the former with criticism of the latter.
From my vantage point, the black priesthood -- which still dominates black political discourse of the type that brooks no competition of political or philosophical views -- advances a purely political agenda based on maintaining racial divisiveness, rather than a vision of the spirit soul attaining eternal association with God Himself.
If that adds up to being anti-black, so be it. |
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