Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Mar 11, 2016

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“Why Sci-Fi Keeps Imagining the Subjugation of White People”

“The link between colonialism and science-fiction is every bit as old as the link between science-fiction and the future. John Rieder in his eye-opening book Colonialism and the Emergence of Science-Fiction notes that most…

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Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Mar 3, 2016

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“The Struggles of Being a Black Millennial in a Conservative White Workplace”

“I had to talk myself down: Shae, this isn’t the worst thing he’s said. Shae, you just got promoted and you’ve almost survived here a year. Shae, you have bills to pay and your mother isn’t going…

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Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Mar 4, 2016

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“I’m So Damn Tired of Slave Movies”

“From a simple visual perspective, I’m tired of being told that I have to watch black actors in physical pain and endure mental abuse for two hours in order to be worthy of a distinction. I don’t want to watch a black body being lashed open so white people can…

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Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Mar 13, 2016

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“Trump Supporter Who Made Nazi Salute Explains Why She Made the Gesture”

“After the rally was canceled, the Petersons found themselves in the middle of a group of protesters, some of whom they described as “rude.” One was holding a poster with a picture of Adolf Hitler on it.

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Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Mar 17, 2016

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“How Diversity Destroyed Affirmative Action”

“campus protests may not only be a backlash against persistent discrimination, racism and inequality, but also a display of a long-lasting frustration with the fact that these problems are not acknowledged in the public sphere. Indeed, among the…

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Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Mar 27, 2016

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“Slip On These “Whiteness Goggles” and the Violence of Cultural Appropriation Disappears”

“Peet printed images of white people engaging in cultural appropriation on tall banners. Frozen in time, Miley Cyrus joyfully twerks with her tongue in its signature position, a…

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Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Mar 26, 2016

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“#BlackLivesMatter: the birth of a new civil rights movement”

“The jury had been deliberating for 16 hours on Zimmerman’s fate. When the verdict was announced, she learned of it first through Facebook: not guilty of second degree murder and acquitted of manslaughter.

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Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Mar 19, 2016

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“It’s Culture Not Costume, Moron”

“When I find myself in some artsy Sydney den, watching girls get wasted with flowers in their hair and Bindis on their pale foreheads, I’m cut adrift with genuine wonder if people even realise that wearing the Bindi as a fashion accessory is like wearing a pope hat with…

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Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Mar 7, 2016

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“Blackness and the Media: The Pitfalls of Colorblindness”

“Overwhelming blackness can be considered good when it’s self-imposed and embraced as a facet of oneself; it can become the framework for who a person is without totally defining themselves as such. When a black person describes…

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Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

Mar 30, 2016

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“China Fences In Its Nomads, and an Ancient Life Withers”

“Gere, who like many Tibetans uses a single name, is filled with regret. Like hundreds of thousands of pastoralists across China who have been relocated into bleak townships over the past decade, he is jobless, deeply indebted and…

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These were the top 10 stories published by On Race — isms in March of 2016. You can also dive into daily archives for March of 2016 by using the calendar at the top of this page.