The murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman and the trial of O.J. Simpson forced America to talk about domestic violence. The 19th talked to experts about whether this changed anything in the longterm, as well as the "inescapable racial dynamics that shape the U.S. court system and the criminalization of Black men," write Nadra Nittle and Candice Norwood.
“The most challenged books in the United States in 2023 continued to focus on the experiences of L.G.B.T.Q. people or explore themes of race…”
Time to buy these books, and/or request your public library purchase if they don’t have them. #bookstodon#books#libraries#censorship#race#lgbtq@bookstodon
Meta’s AI image generator really struggles with the concept of interracial couples.
CNN reports: "Despite the many promises of generative AI’s future potential emanating from the tech industry, the gaffes from Meta’s AI image generator are the latest in a spate of incidents that show how generative AI tools still struggle immensely with the concept of race."
The #UnitedStates federal government updated how it classifies people by #race & #ethnicity for the 1st time in over a quarter-century, aiming to better capture an increasingly #diverse country & give policymakers a fuller view of the #Americans their work impacts.
The #OMB will combine Qs about #race & #ethnicity on fed forms & encourage people to select multiple options if applicable. The govt also will add “#MiddleEastern or #NorthAfrican” (#MENA) a new category…which will include 7 choices.
“This is truly a momentous day” said Meeta Anand, snr dir for #census & data #equity at the Leadership Conference on Civil & #HumanRights, a natl coalition of >200 #CivilRights grps. The combined question, she added, is “one of the biggest changes we’ve ever seen.”
#CfP for "#Race & #Ethnicity in Popular #Culture" at #NEPCA 2024 (Northeast Popular Culture Association Annual Conference"), which will take place as a hybrid #conference on October 3-5, 2024.
My first #marathon#race, done! Official result was 3:51:39.8, pace 8'50"/mile. I was ranked overall 50/167, in males 40/102, or in my age group 5/9. This is slightly slower than my PR in practice (3:50:33, pace 8'48”).
But the official time didn't account for the three times I was lost (!) and had to either retract or asked people (I was not the only one). According to my watch I earned PR on marathon: 3:44:58, pace 8’35”, and #halfMarathon: 1:45:19, pace 8’02”. (1/2)
Today in Labor History March 22, 1886: Mark Twain, who was a lifelong member of the International Typographical Union, gave a speech entitled, “Knights of Labor: The New Dynasty.” In the speech, he commended the Knights’ commitment to fair treatment of all workers, regardless of race or gender. “When all the bricklayers, and all the machinists, and all the miners, and blacksmiths, and printers, and stevedores, and housepainters, and brakemen, and engineers . . . and factory hands, and all the shop girls, and all the sewing machine women, and all the telegraph operators, in a word, all the myriads of toilers in whom is slumbering the reality of that thing which you call Power, ...when these rise, call the vast spectacle by any deluding name that will please your ear, but the fact remains that a Nation has risen.”
Amelia Mavis Christnot explains how men like Donald Trump, Brett Kavanaugh, and Brock Turner are made — and why they're allowed for so long by so many people to evade responsibility for their actions.
Heterosexual white male entitlement combined with overweening privilege due to wealth and social status: a formula for imagining that the world is there for your taking — as well as the women you assault.
"There are three chief reasons for the right’s relentless bashing of Kamala Harris. Those reasons do not include her laugh, or her 'scant experience on the world stage,' or the way she pronounces the word 'the.'
The three reasons are:
She’s a Democrat.
And a person of color.
And a woman."
~ Mark Jacob
And as M. Jacob says, to their great discredit, the corporate media are willing to play along with this racist misogyny.
"'I’ve never met somebody who gives less of a shit,' the director Cord Jefferson, who recently adapted 'Erasure' into an Oscar-nominated film, 'American Fiction,' told me."
Henry Louis Gates Jr. on how, despite our belief in fictional racial absolutes — race is a socially constructed category — we are all mixed, as DNA shows:
“I have never tested an African American who didn’t have white ancestry. And that’s quite remarkable to me.
Paradoxically these DNA tests deconstruct the racial essentialism we’ve inherited from the Enlightenment, because they show that we are all mixed."
Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity by Michele Norris
Peabody Award–winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America, unearthed through her decade-long work at The Race Card Project.
The prompt seemed simple: Race. Your Thoughts. Six Words. Please Send.
The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience and Farming by Natasha Bowen
The growing trend of organic farming and homesteading is changing the way the farmer is portrayed in mainstream media, and yet, farmers of color are still largely left out of the picture. The Color of Food seeks to rectify this.
Working with the catalogue in Sellevold et al:s 1984 book Iron Age Man In Denmark, I am surprised to find a lot of information about whether the crania are brachiocephalic, mesocephalic or dolicocephalic in their proportions. On p. 184 the authors explain why they do this. It's because the measurements and indices in an influential 1928 study "are still routinely used by most anthropologists". Oh, right then?
Nazis appeared to find a friendly reception at the Conservative Political Action Conference this year.
Throughout the conference, #racist extremists, some of whom had secured #official#CPAC badges, openly mingled with conference attendees and espoused #antisemitic conspiracy theories.
The presence of these individuals has been a persistent issue at CPAC. In previous years, conference organizers have ejected well-known #Nazis and white #supremacists such as Nick #Fuentes.
But this year, racist conspiracy theorists didn’t meet any perceptible resistance at the conference where Donald #Trump has been the keynote speaker since 2017.
At the Young Republican mixer Friday evening, a group of Nazis who openly identified as national socialists mingled with mainstream conservative personalities, including some from Turning Point USA, and discussed so-called “#race#science” and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
One member of the group, Greg #Conte, who attended the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in #Charlottesville, Virginia, said that his group showed up to talk to the media.
He said that the group was prepared to be ejected if CPAC organizers were tipped off,
but that never happened