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Yvonne lives in Berkeley, California with her partner and their four-legged family. During the day, she works at a racial justice think tank, crunching numbers to eradicate white supremacy. At night and sometimes weekends, she sits at her computer, trying to make sense of the world.
These are the fruits of her attempts. Apologies in advance if they are sometimes sour, not always sweet, unripe or not fully ready to launch. Yvonne is working on her craft of writing and playing with using all five senses.
Yvonne tweets, shares what she reads, makes friends, takes pictures, and watches video. Occasionally, she chats and talks on the phone. She loves hearing from you at yvonnegrapher at gmail dot com.
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Category Archives: the state
A Tale of Race and Recovery
via RaceWire
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…we had everything before us, we had nothing before us.*
The Obama administration enacted the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) back in February, the largest boon to public spending and [...]
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Billionaires for Wealthcare
Billionaires for Wealthcare toasted the rightwing demonstrators that gathered in DC this past weekend to protest healthcare reform, legislation to stave off climate change, and all attempts to provide a safety net for working families and folks of color.
They describe themselves as “a grassroots network of health insurance CEOs, industry lobbyists, talk-show hosts, and others [...]
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Racializing Uighurs: The Story of Internal Colonialism in China
China extends 3,400 miles from the west to the east and falls into five different time zones. Yet, the country operates on a single standard of time, eight hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, all year round based on the time zone for Beijing, the country’s capital.
A single Chinese time zone is as much [...]
Also posted in multitudes, race Tagged china, han, national question, race, social darwinism, stalinism, strategic essentialism Leave a comment
Empire Strikes Black
“I want to join the Starfleet Academy!” I exclaimed to a colleague when leaving the theater. Watching the new Star Trek movie left me with a sense of optimism about intergalactic governance, a desire to trust and give of myself wholly to the Federation, who will school me, train me on how to [...]
Also posted in dead white men, geek, race Tagged accumulation by dispossession, dead white men, neoliberal, obama, race, social darwinism, space and place, spatial fix 2 Comments
The Chinese Self and Tibetan Other
I have been trying to understand Tibet. Specifically, the Tibetan struggle for self-determination. There’s the national question within China and the story China tells herself. Then, there’s the world stage and the narratives spun by the media, woven according to the ideological bias of its audience.
I will write more about the story [...]
Posted in the state Tagged accumulation by dispossession, china, evolution, geopolitics, han, hegel, national question, social darwinism, stalinism, tibet Leave a comment
Coal Mining Curbed on the Black Mesa, Paving Way for Navajo Green Economy