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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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Tag Archives: accumulation by dispossession
Green Jobs for Navajo Youth
Nikke Alex, the youth organizer for the Navajo Green Jobs and the Black Mesa Water Coalition, talked with us for a few minutes while she was at the Navajo Nation Council Chamber in Window Rock, Arizona, celebrating the historic passage of the first green jobs legislation in American Indian country.
The green jobs act establishes a [...]
Posted in interviews, race Also tagged american indian movement, national question, race, strategic essentialism Leave a comment
Sociology of Board Games
Sociological Images recently posted pictures taken at a toy store of board games targeted towards girls. Of course, they’re pink. The box of Scrabble spells out “f-a-s-h-i-o-n” and girls’ Monopoly comes in a pink, velvet-lined jewelry box where you can keep game pieces.
A dissertation should be written on the sociology of board games, if there [...]
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 [...]
Posted in dead white men, geek, race, the state Also tagged dead white men, neoliberal, obama, race, social darwinism, space and place, spatial fix 4 Comments
Tent City
“Excuse me, where’s the tent city?”
The man with matted dreadlocks and a weathered face from the sun squinted at me. He wore a white tee shirt grey with wear and slung a tattered jean jacket over his shoulder, hot from the afternoon sun. “Why would you want to go there?”
Why indeed. Like [...]
Posted in capital, race, urban studies Also tagged capital crisis, new deal, obama, race, space and place, spatial fix, subprime Leave a comment
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 Also tagged china, evolution, geopolitics, han, hegel, national question, social darwinism, stalinism, tibet Leave a comment
All Your Marbles Are Belong To Us
We’re all subprime now, so says the general consensus by economists while the Fed bails out Bear Stearns and provides corporate welfare to the tune of over $13 billion daily $28 billion in just three days.
How did this happen, I and David Leonhardt ask?
Steve Randy Waldman tries to explain it to us:
Alice, Bob, and Sue [...]
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Coal Mining Curbed on the Black Mesa, Paving Way for Navajo Green Economy