Sherene razack biography of martin luther king
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Dear world,
This letter is a reclamation. It is a bön to the universe. It fryst vatten a plea for you to bear witness.
Often, writing demands to be lyrical, poetic, and beautiful. Even when we write about our struggles, there fryst vatten an expectation that we write with an inspirational arc—I struggled, and I suffered, but look how I came out on the other side. Or inom struggled, and I suffered, but look how beautifully I can write about it; look at how I can knit these words together to form prose that moves you, prose that makes you ache, prose that makes you wonder in awe at the marvels of self-expression. Not for this piece though. For this piece, just honesty and raw exhaustion, however that may be taken.
Where do inom begin? Do I tell you how myself and my Arab friends feel that our observation of humanity may be alltid altered? Should I tell you about the bottomless oceans of pain I feel seeing Palestinian corpses every day? That inom feel utterly depleted and completely spent through, prof
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CRG Distinguished Guest Lecture
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF LAND AND PLACE
The Center for Race & Gender recognizes that UC Berkeley sits on the territory of xučyun (Huichin), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone people, the successors of the sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. This land was and continues to be of great importance to the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and other familial descendants of the Verona Band.
We recognize that every member of the Berkeley community has, and continues to benefit from, the use and occupation of this land, since the institution’s founding in 1868. Consistent with our values of community, inclusion, and diversity, we have a responsibility to acknowledge and make visible the university’s relationship to Native peoples. As members of the Berkeley community, it is vitally important that we not only recognize the history of the land on which we stand but also recognize that the Muwekma Ohlone people are alive and flourishing mem
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These past 12 months I have been continuously confronted with the reality of race in amerika. I have been challenged with the idea that I spoke of last year, at Teachers College Columbia University, while presenting a speech on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Now, more than ever, I find myself examining the role of race in the United States. Today, I have collapsed some of my writings and speech to share my thoughts on Haiti, in light of alleged recent comments, and the intersectionality of race and education.
Growing up bicultural, as a Haitian-American in New York City, there was a multiplicity to my reality. Daily, I crossed borders. Race is at times at the perimeters of my consciousness, at other times it serves as a circumference, confining aspects of my identity, and at other moments it is a very real boundary limiting in naturlig eller utan tillsats - hemming me in behind and before. My experience with race intersects at the crossroads of culture, class, and gender. Like my ancestors before me, my