Clever girl!

ayiman:

selchieproductions:

beautifulbiatch:

[blah blah blah blah I’m a racist asshole and I don’t know what I’m talking about]

“Foreign influence is sometimes one of the most powerful promoters of the progression of culture.”

Oh man, am I glad that I’ve been out most of the day. There’s really not a lot to add to the extensive critique others have already aimed at you, but really? Do you ever actually pause to think about what you’re saying before you let your mind lose on your blog?

Foreign influence in the Americas is what created the biggest genocide in history, with more than 90% of all Native Americans being decimated by colonialism. Foreign influence is also the very thing that created the Transatlantic Slave Trade which displaced and brutally murdered millions of Africans over hundreds of years and foreign influence is what to this day forces uncontacted tribes in the Amazon rain-forest to flee for their lives as murderous illegal loggers enter their traditional areas.

If you don’t know what you’re talking about, then don’t talk. 

Anyway, I am sometimes nice, so here’s a book you can and should read before you say anything else about alphabets;

• Jensen, Hans (1970). Sign Symbol and Script. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd.

And for your education in order for you to realise that you’re wrong when it comes to your belief that ‘foreign influence is sometimes one of the most powerful promoters of the progression of culture’ - here you go;

• Athia, Dr Renato et al (2007). Progress Can Kill: How Imposed Development Destroys the Health of Tribal Peoples. London: Survival International

• Bourne, R. (2003). Invisible Lives. Undercounted, Underrepresented and Underneath: The Socio-Economic Plight of Indigenous Peoples in the Commonwealth. Commonwealth Studies Unit: London.

• Kirmayer, LJ. and Valaskakis, G. (Eds.).The Mental Health of Canadian Aboriginal peoples: Transformations, Identity, and Community.University of British Columbia Press: Vancouver.

• Cook, D.N. (1998). Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 

• Dion Stout, M. and Kipling, G. (2003). Aboriginal people, Resilience and the Residential School Legacy. The Aboriginal Healing Foundation: Ottawa. 

• Fell, N. (2005). Argentine Tribe Losing Battle Against ‘Silent Genocide’. Sunday Herald: Edinburgh. 

• Hemming, J. (2003). Die if You Must: Brazilian Indians in the Twentieth Century. Macmillan: London.

• IWGIA. (1989). Paraguay. Ethnocide: Mission Accomplished? IWGIA: Copenhagen.

• Jasen, P. (1997). Race, Culture, and the Colonization of Childbirth in Northern Canada. Social History of Medicine 10(3), 383-400.

• Joe, J.R., Young, R. (1994). Diabetes as a Disease of Civilization: The Impact of Culture Change on Indigenous Peoples. Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin.

• Kirmayer, L., Brass, G. and Tait, C. (2000). The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples: Transformations of Identity and Community. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 45, 607-616

• Levang, P., Dounias, E., Sitorus, S. (2005). Out of the Forest, Out of Poverty? Forests, Trees and Livelihoods 15, 211-235.

• Rabben, L. (1998). Unnatural Selection: The Yanomami, the Kayapo and the Onslaughtof Civilisation. Pluto Press: London.

• Salazar, M. (2006). Indigenous People, Ignored Even by the Statistics. IPS News. 10 October 2006.

• Shephard, R.J. and Rode, A. (1996). The Health Consequences of ‘Modernization’: Evidence from Circumpolar Peoples. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

reblogging for the great big list of stuff to read.

anygoddamnedcolleen:

delladilly:

5 BOOKS FOR THE DISSATISFIED HUNGER GAMES READER

• Ship Breaker, by Paolo Bacigalupi— Brilliant YA futuristic dystopia that actually examines interplay between race/class/power; heterosexual male protagonist and rest of cast all POCs, brings critical lens to current USAmerican —> global institutionalized inequalities with many thrilling action sequences

• Graceling, by Kristin Cashore— action/adventure fantasy novel all about gender and power. Fabulous white, heterosexual female heroine, like Katniss, is bad at feelings, good at killing; unlike Katniss, her entire book is a study of her agency, and she thinks extensively on whether she wants a romance and ultimately makes that decision, too.

• Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents, by Octavia Butler— not YA, but the best dystopia ever??? Yes. Heroine & most of cast are POC, explores race & gender in futuristic unraveling of USAmerican society & one incredible woman who manages to build something new in the rubble; she is, like Katniss, logical & determined, and unlike Katniss, in charge. 

• Octavian Nothing, by MT Anderson— YA historical duology about a heterosexual African American boy during the American revolution. The author explicitly plays on the popularity of YA fantasy dystopias to interrupt the reader’s expectations of a traditional fantasy narrative with the reality of US history— like Hunger Games, grim adventure that doesn’t traditionally conclude, unlike Hunger Games, explicitly about race

• Sisters Red, by Jackson Pearce— white werewolf hunting sisters in contemporary USA; older sister is focused, protective, and genuinely asexual!!! while younger sister has a perspective, agency, and doesn’t die. The entire book is about their difficult changing healthy A+ relationship. 

I am excite about this list! (Looove the Parable books, had Graceling on my to-read list for ages.) I would like to add though, that there’s been a lot of talk about Paolo Bacigalupi’s racism and Orientalism in The Wind-Up Girl, so…. I don’t know if Ship Breaker is just not that way or what, but I WORRY.

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