No rhyme or reason, just ephemera….
Hortense Spillers before the End of the World
“We might put it this way: It was as though 2010 were furious with 2008 and wrought its revenge in an election result that all but canceled out the previous outcome. It seems that the Facebook crowd—the young and the restless—stayed home that day, and it is precisely that generational cohort toward which Susan Saulny’s New York Times piece, “Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above,” is aimed and from which it draws its inspiration. For this cohort, race is no longer just “race,” but becomes a playful smorgasbord of this, that, and the other. My head spins and my eyesight grows cock-eyed, trying to figure this one out. In short, I fall down in the dizziness….”
— Spillers, Hortense. “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s, Too.” Trans-Scripts 1 (2011). http://www.humanities.uci.edu/collective/hctr/trans-scripts/2011_01_02.pdf
Possible Repost
A short excerpt from the 2008 Gallery D'Estee Exhibit honoring Dr. Margaret Burroughs
TBR&R (To be Read & Read)
Camp, Stephanie MH. “Black Is Beautiful: An American History.” The Journal of Southern History 81, no. 3 (2015): 675.
Moody, Joycelyn, Frances Smith Foster, Nell Irvin Painter, Florence Howe, Cheryl Wall, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, William L. Andrews, et al. “In Memoriam: Professor Nellie Y. McKay (1930-2006).” African American Review 40, no. 1 (2006): 5–38.
From the Archives: Protesting Bias at Bowdoin College
“Photo: "I am Bowdoin" Demonstration (March 9, 2011): This afternoon students gathered in Smith Union in a demonstration of solidarity in response to recent bias incidents on campus. At around 4 p.m., a large group of students, joined by members of the faculty and administration, as well as some alumni, dressed in black and with duct tape covering their mouths assembled at the Polar Bear, entered Smith Union through the side entrance and formed a circle in Morrell Lounge.” Reblogged from bowdoinorient.tumblr.com on March 10th, 2011 10:17am.
An update on April 2011.
Once Upon a Tumblr
When I think of what she might be, of what she will be, I feel like grasping time till opinions change, and thousands like her rise into a noble freedom.
— Harriet Wilson, Our Nig, p. 41, reblogged from ethiopienne.tumblr.com on July 21st, 2011 6:00pm
A story found in various genres of local oral performance does tell how Malobe, a giant from one of the nearby inland communities, was sold into slavery as punishment for attacking Duala traders at his village marketplace. The Malobe tale probably refers to a real event, but, for purposes of slave trade historiography, it is more significant for what it hides than for what it reveals. The impression is of a traffic used to punish known individual malefactors from within the realm of direct Duala commercial encounters…This extremely antisocial, indeed inhumane, characteristic of the slave trade cannot, apparently, be discussed openly by the Duala and their neighbors, just as it is absent from the more plausibly historical oral tradition of many African societies that we know to have been engaged in such traffic on a larger scale than the Duala.
— Ralph A. Austen, “The Slave Trade as History and Memory : Confrontations of Slaving Voyage Documents and Communal Traditions,” (1997): 1–13; posted on jmjafrx.tumblr.com on July 19th, 2011 6:00pm