Febrero 2012
71 publicaciones nuevas
Enero 2012
109 publicaciones nuevas
REPRESENTATION OF THE “PRIMITIVE” AMERICAN INDIAN →
thesocietypages.org
We owe many iconic images of American Indians to photographer Edward S. Curtis. Growing up in Wisconsin and Minnesota, Curtis began photographing Indians in 1895 and, in 1906, was offered $75,000 by JP Morgan to continue documenting their lives. The 1,500 resulting photographs inevitably impacted the image of Indians in the American imagination.Later it came to light that Curtis’ photographs weren’t exactly pure representations. In some photographs, for example, he erased signs of modernity.
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[image: sepia-toned portrait of an indigenous person. They have brown skin and deep wrinkles, greying hair that appears to be about chin-length, partially covered under a check-printed(?) cloth hat. They are wearing numerous beaded necklaces and medallions. The photograph is the work of world class fuckface Edward S. Curtis.]
Fixed the link. Hate this guy. Important read. Too tired for clever commentary. Or unfragmented sentences, apparently.
Curtis not only erased signs of modernity, but also carried around clothing and wigs he though were quintessentially “native american.” This is why you’ll see photos of pueblo women wearing cider vests… or just really non-traditional style clothing to various different tribes (i.e. cider was used in clothing and what not to the tribes in the Pacific Northwest… not in the southwest or any/most other parts of the country).
People need to be cautious of the representations of Natives that they see… folks don’t realize that stereotypes and misrepresentations of Natives have been around literally since 1492.
“No history books used in public schools informed us about racial imperialism. Instead we were given romantic notions of the “New World,” the “American Dream,” America as the great melting pot where all races come together as one. We were taught that Columbus *discovered* America; that “Indians” were scalp-hunters, killers of innocent women and children; that black people were enslaved because of the biblical curse of Ham, that God “himself” had decreed that they would be hewers of wood, tilers of the field, and bringers of water. No one talked of Africa as the cradle of civilization, of African and Aian people who came to America before columbus. No one mentioned Mass murders of Native Americans and African women as terrorism. No one described the force breeding of white wives to increase the white population as sexist oppression.”
—bell hooks: Racism and Feminism (via itsjusttracey)
“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked “female”.”
—http://www.dressaday.com/2006/10/you-dont-have-to-be-pretty.html (via alliebeegood)
“We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor”
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1964)
exaactly
(via mccooze)
“Let’s not sanitize, sterilize and deordorize the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was at one point considered the most dangerous man in America. But in spite of the wounds and scars he endured, he still kept loving. He was a prophet and preacher of love, and justice is what love looks like in public.”
—Dr. Cornel West (via newwavefeminism)
Why is the Only "Good" Civil Rights Leader a Dead One? →
dsadevil.blogspot.com
“Had he not been assassinated, I firmly believe that White America would not have accorded King his current valorized status, for the precise reason that it would have been that much more difficult to mythologize his legacy if he was alive to contest it. Hence we have the title of the post: The only “good” civil rights leader is, quite literally, a dead one.”
(http://dsadevil.blogspot.com/2007/10/why-is-only-good-civil-rights-leader.html)
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even in friendly conversation
I get the bell hooks-ian urge
to kill mother-fuckers who say stupid shit to me
all day
bitter branches of things I cannot say out loud
sprout deviant from my neck
fuck you-you-fucking-racist-sexist-turd
fuck you for wanting to talk about homophobia
while you exploit the desperation of undocumented immigrants
to clean your hallways
bathe your children and cook your dinner
for less than you and I spend on our tax deductible lunch!
I want to scream
all oppression is connected you dick!
