Because of my hyper-managed schedule, it’s difficult to comment on every interest I have. Grad school, working nights, chores and workouts have put too many dents in my available time. However, to connect with you here, I collect notes and observations in hope of later transfer and expansion when the opportunity arises. There are a [...]
Archive > September 2008
Cultures on the Edge
In the Blink of an Eye Worldwide some 300 million people retain strong identities as members of indigenous cultures, cultures rooted in their own history, their own languages and attached by memories to their particular places on the Earth. These cultures are old and represent much of the collective experience and intelligence of humanity. And [...]
The Fall of Indigenous Peoples
Franck, In re-reading your statement, don’t forget that Islamic culture did the very same thing to Africans that the Christian Europeans did. The Chinese are redefining Tibet. The indigenous peoples of Darfur in Western Sudan are being slaughtered for land and oil and the export of American culture everywhere is ‘flattening’ the world at an [...]
On Hegemony and Personal Responsibility
European and American intellectuals and societies will find it hard to let go of their dominant position in the world. Yet I have a hard time accepting the fact that other cultures, specifically Islamic and the modern Chinese, want to supplant them. Our egos must be retooled to let us accept each other…our diverse cultures, [...]
On Graduate School
what’s hardest to absorb is the language of the ‘academy’…i mean why can’t i write scholarly work like…? ‘back in the ’60s, niggas on the white man’s campuses went crazy and burnt up a shit load o’ books n’ shit. wudn’t nuthin’ in them books about OUR history or OUR contributions to AmeriKKKan life anyway. [...]
