On Race — isms
Raceing through life and living through race (stay tuned for more wordplay as it comes to me)
“An App Tells Painful Stories Of Slaves At Monticello’s Mulberry Row”
“In order to bring to life a once-bustling enclave of skilled slaves called Mulberry Row, the museum has launched a mobile app — called…Slavery at Monticello — that helps visitors visualize the space, stretching along a 1,000-foot path to the south side of the presidential villa in Charlottesville, Va. ¶ The geolocated app, which is free, allows visitors to explore the history of the patch of ground they are standing on… ¶ despite decades of archeological digs and an oral history project that has gathered interviews with more than 100 descendants, these powerful stories have yet to find a physical home.”
Jess Brooks20 hrs ago
“What’s Wrong With the Term ‘Person of Color’”
“My understanding of racial privilege and oppression was shaped exactly by the immense antiblackness in my communities. When the discussion…on racism began, however, all of us Asian kids broke down and cried. It was clear to us that we didn’t have White privilege, but ‘people of color’ didn’t fit either when the only other context we had for it was a group of our Black peers using it as a solidarity term… ¶ API folks, Latinos, Middle Eastern folks, and many more of us don’t fit into that racial triangle. We’re not White, and we bring our own histories of colonization.Jess Brooks3 days ago
“Priyanka Chopra and the Problems With “Exotic””
“Having always had a disdain for the word exotic, the stereotype really hit home for me a few weeks ago when I posted a photo of myself on…Facebook and someone commented saying that I looked “so exotic.” My first reaction was “Why the hell would someone call me that?” and that led to reading on the word’s etymology. There’s a lot of interesting literature around the word, but here’s a little snippet on its fairly recent use: To begin with, “exotic” is a term that one is technically supposed to use for animal and plant species, not humans.Jess Brooks3 days ago
On Race — isms
Raceing through life and living through race (stay tuned for more wordplay as it comes to me)
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