Disability Blog Carnival

Chris Crass writes a book review on the book Towards Land, Work and Power: Charting a Path of Resistance to U.S.-Led Imperialism in the blog Red Flags .  The book was done by members of POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights), an organization based in San Francisco. A key contribution of the book is their centering of race, gender and sexuality in their class analysis. The authors review how the local ruling class planed the development of the Bay Area and have adv... more

The blogger for feminist reprise blogs on how whites get defensive about the term white privilege and why they are wrong for getting defensive.  She writes : There is almost always someone in a discussion of white privilege, for example, who will say, “But my aunt/sister/cousin is white, and she is poor/got thrown out of college/broke a nail.” ... more

Zaynab A. Omaki writes , in the blog The sub-Saharan African roundtable , that: According to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels , the family is a small class society where the women are suppressed, dominated and taken as sexual property. This is absolutely true in Nigeria , if not all of sub-Saharan Africa. ... more

Alex, from the Chinese-American hardcore band Say Bok Gwai (Damn White Devil), responds to an e-mail by a young Hong Kong youth who had seen a show done by the band in Hong Kong and had called the band “yellow on the outside, white on the inside.” Growing up in America, it is very easy to lose all of your ethnic background if you don’t try to hold on to it. It is very easy to be another white American as I have seen very much in my life with Chinese, Filipinos ... more