Welcome to Ukraine. Nostalgia — Myroslava Barchuk looks into the eyes of the people in old photographs A recollection from my early twenties came up to the surface of my memory — French classes for emigrants in Montreal.
Among students in my group were people of various ethnic backgrounds and nationalities — Pakistani, Indians, Syrians, Germans, Rumanians, Greeks, Poles, Chinese, British. The time was the end of the nineteen-eighties, and for me, a young person who had just left the Soviet Union with its collapsing “iron curtain,” everything in my new “western” life caused a great excitement. What a great variety of colours, of new impressions! By saying it, Linda let me feel pride for being one of the people who create such beauty. Why is it that for the first time in my life the full meaning of belonging to my people was revealed to me in a dining room of a Montreal school? By Myroslava Barchuk Photographs are from the book Poltava, Rodovid Publishers, 2004.
[Prev][Contents][Next] The Myth of an Affirmative-Action President. Why, I wonder, do so many people question how Barack Obama got where he is, while no one asks the same about Mitt Romney?
Obama for America El presidente, reporting from Tampa, catches this from Karl Rove: Speaking of which, if you watch the video, you'll see that while Rove didn't venture a theory for why whites have moved away from Obama in Indiana, he did propose one for a similar dynamic in North Carolina. There, he said, in 2008 "New South independents" (meaning, I think, white independents) who were "racial moderates, economic conservatives" had supported Obama in the belief that "this will be really good for the country -- let's put the issue of race behind us. " But now they are disappointed in Obama because he's "done a lousy job on the economy, and he's not a fiscal conservative.
" It's a familiar echo which goes all the way back to calls for Obama's college transcripts. This kind of skepticism -- racism at its most common -- is in the air. Seeing the naught. The 5th Province...a space beyond dualisms. Soviet Hegemony of Form: Everything Was Forever,Until It Was No More ALEXEI YURCHAK University of California, Berkeley.
The First Draft of History – Will Be Vaporized De-racialising revolutions. Soon after the brutal crackdown on Iran's post-electoral uprising in June 2009, rumours began circulating in cyberspace and among ardent supporters of the Green Movement that some of the Islamic Republic's security forces, recruited to viciously attack demonstrators, were, in fact, not Iranians at all, but "Arabs".
Snapshots began circulating with red circles marking darker-skinned, rougher looking members of the security forces, who it was said were members of the Lebanese Hezbollah or Palestinian Hamas. Iranians, like me, who come from the southern climes of our homeland, look like those circled in red and remember a long history of being derogatorily dismissed as "Arabs" by our whiter-looking northern brothers and sisters, were not convinced by the allegations.
Cut to almost two years later, when "the mercenaries" who were deployed by the Gaddafi regime to crush the revolutionary uprising engulfing Libya were reported to have been "African". Revealing the 'other' The Arab 'other'