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A discussion of race, class, and politics in the HBO series The Last of Us w/guest Dani.
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In this episode, a #ReadingRevolution installment, we discuss the Introduction and closing interview in the 2001 edition of Aimé Césaire's 1950 anticolonial manifesto Discourse on Colonialism
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Readings & Resources:

Brent Edwards - The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674011038

Négritude
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/negritude/

German Colonization of Africa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_colonization_of_Africa

Matthias Häussler -  Herero Genocide:  War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HausslerHerero

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In this episode, Dr. Cassie Osei discusses her research on the history of Black women’s labor and related social change in Brazil, conducting research in Brazil as a Black woman herself, and the racial politics of the reality show Love Is Blind: Brazil.
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Readings & Resources

(from Dr, Osei):
Paulina Alberto - Terms of Inclusion
https://uncpress.org/book/9780807871713/terms-of-inclusion/#:~:text=Terms%20of%20Inclusion%20tells%20a,citizenship%20in%20twentieth%2Dcentury%20Brazil.

Barbara Weinstein - “How does the painting ‘The Redemption of Ham’ by Modesto Brocos illustrate ideas of whitening?”
https://www.choices.edu/video/how-does-the-painting-the-redemption-of-ham-by-modesto-brocos-illustrate-ideas-of-whitening/

Katia Costa Santos - “Black Girls of Ipanema”
https://nacla.org/black-girls-ipanema

Keisha-Khan Perry - Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/black-women-against-the-land-grab


Kia Lilly Caldwell - Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/negras-in-brazil/9780813539577

Raquel Barreto - “Amefricanity: The black feminism of Lélia Gonzalez”
https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/amefricanity

PhDivas Podcast - “Afro-Brazilian Women’s History & Low Femme Theory with Dr. Cassie Osei”
https://phdivaspodcast.wordpress.com/2022/05/27/s6e8-afro-brazilian-womens-history-low-femme-theory-with-dr-cassie-osei/

Professor Osei on social media:
Twitter: @tropigalia
Instagram:@brasilianista
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(additional readings & resources):

Edward Telles - Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691127927/race-in-another-america

Juliana Barreto Farias (editor) - Black Women in Brazil in Slavery and Post-Emancipation
https://dafricapress.com/Black-Women-in-Brazil-in-Slavery-and-Post-Emancipation-p81850749



Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman - The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477307885/

Silvio Almeida on youtube (em português)
https://www.youtube.com/@silviolual

“Maid Saved US$ 5,800 and Took Daughter to Disney World”
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/business/2020/02/maid-saved-us5800-and-took-daughter-to-disney-world.shtml

Love Is Blind Brazil
https://www.netflix.com/title/81284981
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In this preview episode, Wendi reads a brief excerpt from Aimé Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism, our upcoming #ReadingRevolution series selection.
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Readings & Resources:
Aimé Césaire - Discourse on Colonialism
https://nyupress.org/9781583670255/discourse-on-colonialism/

https://files.libcom.org/files/zz_aime_cesaire_robin_d.g._kelley_discourse_on_colbook4me.org_.pdf
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In this episode, Richard & Wendi discuss a few news items around AI, art for public consumption, and policing as well as the strange trajectory of left populism in the US
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Readings & Resources:
“Artificial Intelligence: The Risks Could Outweigh the Rewards”
https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debate/artificial-intelligence-risks-could-outweigh-rewards/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAiJSeBhCCARIsAHnAzT9D1dggb9QOTo4kwLegy_vpFIaGCGGfwIDgE3bTP2AFB23Zkh-RNNYaAoj3EALw_wcB#/?utm_medium=ppc&utm_term=ai%20issues&utm_campaign=Economics+%26+Finance&utm_source=adwords&hsa_kw=ai%20issues&hsa_cam=15231245947&hsa_ver=3&hsa_acc=4857278459&hsa_ad=602983206464&hsa_grp=140558910707&hsa_src=g&hsa_mt=b&hsa_tgt=kwd-607311173958&hsa_net=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&utm_term=&utm_campaign=Economics+%26+Finance&utm_source=adwords&hsa_kw=&hsa_cam=14323626438&hsa_ver=3&hsa_acc=4857278459&hsa_ad=571210950443&hsa_grp=132253490540&hsa_src=g&hsa_mt=&hsa_tgt=dsa-1556830528721&hsa_net=adwords

“AI Creating 'Art' Is An Ethical And Copyright Nightmare”
https://kotaku.com/ai-art-dall-e-midjourney-stable-diffusion-copyright-1849388060

“Twitter Surveillance Startup Targets Communities of Color for Police”
https://theintercept.com/2020/10/21/dataminr-twitter-surveillance-racial-profiling/

“Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Boston draws online mockery, disdain”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/01/15/mlk-statue-boston-backlash/

Paulina Alberto - Terms of Inclusion
https://uncpress.org/book/9780807871713/terms-of-inclusion/#:~:text=Terms%20of%20Inclusion%20tells%20a,citizenship%20in%20twentieth%2Dcentury%20Brazil.

Ana Lucia Araújo - Slavery in the Age of Memory
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/slavery-in-the-age-of-memory-9781350048492/

“New 9 ft. sculpture pays tribute to Biggie Smalls in Brooklyn”
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/new-9-ft-sculpture-pays-tribute-to-biggie-smalls-in-brooklyn/

“Boston unveils "Embrace" sculpture of MLK and Coretta Scott King”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/boston-unveils-embrace-sculpture-mlk-coretta-scott-king-rcna64990

“Understanding the AI Alignment Problem”
https://bdtechtalks.com/2021/01/18/ai-alignment-problem-brian-christian/

E. M. Forster - The Machine Stops
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops#:~:text=%22The%20Machine%20Stops%22%20is%20a,and%20Other%20Stories%20in%201928.
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