[Peace] peace-discuss please! Re: WRC events: "Precious" tonight 3/1 8pm; author Sapphire tomorrow 3/2 7pm
Stuart Levy
slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Mon Mar 1 12:23:33 CST 2010
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On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 12:04:36PM -0600, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> Quite welcome, Kimberlie. I've been a fan of CP & of Reed for a while.
>
> A further complication in this terrible business is the point made by
> Walter Benn Michaels*, that liberals (like Hollywood filmmakers) are much
> more comfortable dealing with racism than with inequality. --CGE
> ______________
> *"The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore
> Inequality" by Walter Benn Michaels (2006)
>
>
> Kimberlie Kranich wrote:
>> Thanks for the Counterpunch article, Carl.
>> Sapphire and Reed both make points I nodded to. Good to have his
>> perspective. I also am thinking of Barbara's Smith's book, "All the Women
>> are White, All the Men are Black, But Some of Us are Brave." I wonder if
>> Reed had read it?
>> I didn't like "Blind Side" for reasons similar to why Reed doesn't like
>> "Precious." I think his racial analysis has weight, and that he is also
>> unable to speak articulately on the real problem of male sexual violence
>> against women. He has given no voice to this reality and I would like to
>> hear his voice on this real problem in addition to the voice he
>> articulates so well in terms of black men being falsely accused of raping
>> white women and the oppression that results in this false accusation.
>> ~Kimberlie
>> --- On *Mon, 3/1/10, C. G. Estabrook /<galliher at illinois.edu>/* wrote:
>> From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [Peace] WRC events: "Precious" tonight 3/1 8pm; author
>> Sapphire tomorrow 3/2 7pm
>> To: "Stuart Levy" <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
>> Cc: peace at anti-war.net
>> Date: Monday, March 1, 2010, 11:09 AM
>> See also Ishmael Reed's account of the film on Counterpunch.org.
>> Stuart Levy wrote:
>> > Two Women's Resource Center events, tonight and tomorrow night:
>> >
>> > Mon 3/1 7pm Illini Union Ballroom
>> > Showing of the film "Precious". Free.
>> >
>> > [If you haven't seen it -- this is a fine film, if grim.
>> > A good one to watch where you can talk it over with others
>> afterward.
>> > Roger Ebert reviewed it here, though it's not his most
>> insightful review:
>> >
>> http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091104/REVIEWS/911059999/1023
>> > ]
>> >
>> > Tue 3/2 7pm Illini Union rooms A + B
>> > Sapphire, the author of the novel Push on which Precious was
>> based,
>> > will be visiting UIUC and speaking on Tuesday night!
>> >
>> >
>> > More on the Women's Resource Center:
>> > http://studentaffairs.illinois.edu/diversity/women/index.html
>> >
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