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		<title>Columbus and Memory</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2009/10/columbus-and-memory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columbus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columbus Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colonialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[injustice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, I posted this reflection on Columbus Day. I was prompted to the reflection in part by an ongoing tiff with the very idea of Columbus Day, the idea that we mark such a terrifying event in world history with a day of leisure. I was prompted just as much (or more) by a New York Times article on laying claim to the Columbus name...what it means to be a long descended relative, etc. On this Columbus Day, I wanted to revisit the holiday and a particular video that's making the viral rounds.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Nobel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nobel Peace Prize]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Obama Nobel Peace Prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War in Iraq]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[is racism dead?]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theoryculture.com/?p=159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded. And it goes to Barack Obama, which has now set off an avalanche of grousing and complaining and sarcasm from the right and left. At least we won&#8217;t have to talk about the Olympics not being in Chicago any longer. It is always noteworthy when the right and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Bad: Iraqi Edition</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2009/09/being-bad-iraqi-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Muntader al-Zaidi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War in Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colonialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iraqi shoe thrower]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theoryculture.com/?p=154</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The other, albeit secondary story that needs to be told is the story of how so many Americans took self-righteous pleasure in what would become another man's extreme suffering. Building our catharsis on another man's risk of body and life. In that way, how so many Americans repeated the very use of brown, foreign bodies in order to feel better about their world - the very thing of which G.W. Bush and his administration have been (rightly) accused after invading Afghanistan and Iraq after 11 September 2001.]]></description>
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		<title>Gazing at Semenya</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2009/09/gazing-at-semenya/</link>
		<comments>http://theoryculture.com/2009/09/gazing-at-semenya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caster Semenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hottentot Venus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumerism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[masculinity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[spectacle]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theoryculture.com/?p=142</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mass-media - in images, video, and word - creates traveling spectacles and thus creates spectators in so many new ways and contexts. We consume the spectacle casually on our computers and television. Fascination with Semenya's genitals is all the story today, and surely will be for the next coming days. The assumption is that we have rights to this gaze, to look inside (prompting notions of biopower, no doubt) and outside her body (recalling Baartman's case). Why this comfortable assumption? Simply because we are, maybe, sports fans (though so few are actual track and field fans...not unimportant here!). Or because we can.]]></description>
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		<title>Money, Race</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2009/09/money-race/</link>
		<comments>http://theoryculture.com/2009/09/money-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African-Americans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Annie Leibovitz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MC Hammer]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theoryculture.com/?p=139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[But I'd ask you to consider this: what if Annie Leibovitz was black? Well, we don't have to imagine. There are plenty of cases of rich black people in the public eye, who get famous and rich and then go broke. We laugh at them. We sneer at them and talk about how stupid they were to blow millions and not plan well. They end up on VH-1. First, in Behind the Music. Second, on some degrading reality show.]]></description>
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		<title>Ideologically Thomas</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2008/12/ideologically-thomas/</link>
		<comments>http://theoryculture.com/2008/12/ideologically-thomas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Althusser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumerism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thomas and friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas the Tank Engine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theorymyculture.wordpress.com/?p=135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have a little boy or girl, then you probably know about Thomas the Tank Engine. No, I don&#8217;t mean a character. And I don&#8217;t even mean a show. And, no, I don&#8217;t even mean a merchandise aisle at Target. I mean what becomes, so very easily, an entire way of being. What is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post Election, Post Racism?</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2008/11/post-election-post-racism/</link>
		<comments>http://theoryculture.com/2008/11/post-election-post-racism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African-Americans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theorymyculture.wordpress.com/?p=128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, so a long election cycle is over. I wondered if the chattering class &#8211; a class to which I aspire &#8211; would have much left to say. I mean, seriously, so much has been said already. I&#8217;m of course wrong. I should have known that the big and apparently only question would be raised: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall-E&#8217;s Anxiety</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2008/08/wall-es-anxiety/</link>
		<comments>http://theoryculture.com/2008/08/wall-es-anxiety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Althusser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marcuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pixar]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[consumerism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theorymyculture.wordpress.com/?p=125</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw Wall-E a couple of weeks back. Unlike most, if not all of my friends who saw the movie, I didn&#8217;t like it very much. It was of course visually awesome and charming, for the most part, and told a decent enough story. It&#8217;s hard to &#8220;disagree&#8221; with the moral of the story, which, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Isaac Hayes</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2008/08/goodbye-isaac-hayes/</link>
		<comments>http://theoryculture.com/2008/08/goodbye-isaac-hayes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African-Americans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial representation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isaac Hayes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theorymyculture.wordpress.com/?p=119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading the goodbye tributes to Isaac Hayes. I lived in Memphis for a handful-plus years and have, since I was a teenager, loved Memphis music. Hi-Records has always been by far my favorite, but the Stax sound is really the only thing in Memphis that can compare. So, I read the tributes to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New, Dribble-friendly Elitism</title>
		<link>http://theoryculture.com/2008/08/the-new-dribble-friendly-elitism/</link>
		<comments>http://theoryculture.com/2008/08/the-new-dribble-friendly-elitism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African-Americans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial representation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[whiteness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[basketball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl Rove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sean Hannity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theorymyculture.wordpress.com/?p=117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Basketball versus bowling. Who knew it had such implications? I mean, seriously, when is the last time we talked about the Dream Team in the Professional Bowlers Association? Or even just saw bowling on television at a time other than 3pm on a Sunday? Turns out, this might be an important signifier in electoral rhetoric. [...]]]></description>
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