http://theliminghouse.org/2007/02/27/young-and-black-in-babylondon-part-deux/ "we brandish words like rapiers" Fri, 18 May 2012 14:23:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://theliminghouse.org/2007/02/27/young-and-black-in-babylondon-part-deux/comment-page-1/#comment-15 sinistra Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:23:59 +0000 http://theliminghouse.org/2007/02/27/young-and-black-in-babylondon-part-deux/#comment-15 mar - I've only encountered Fanon via Lovelace, whose essays I've been absorbing this week. I'm still working out who I am and I where I stand in relation to blackness, as you said - but that is the subject of upcoming posts... mar – I’ve only encountered Fanon via Lovelace, whose essays I’ve been absorbing this week. I’m still working out who I am and I where I stand in relation to blackness, as you said – but that is the subject of upcoming posts…

]]> http://theliminghouse.org/2007/02/27/young-and-black-in-babylondon-part-deux/comment-page-1/#comment-1063 sinistra Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:23:59 +0000 http://theliminghouse.org/2007/02/27/young-and-black-in-babylondon-part-deux/#comment-1063 mar - I've only encountered Fanon via Lovelace, whose essays I've been absorbing this week. I'm still working out who I am and I where I stand in relation to blackness, as you said - but that is the subject of upcoming posts... mar – I’ve only encountered Fanon via Lovelace, whose essays I’ve been absorbing this week. I’m still working out who I am and I where I stand in relation to blackness, as you said – but that is the subject of upcoming posts…

]]> http://theliminghouse.org/2007/02/27/young-and-black-in-babylondon-part-deux/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Trinidad & Tobago: Young and black in Babylondon Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:19:17 +0000 http://theliminghouse.org/2007/02/27/young-and-black-in-babylondon-part-deux/#comment-14 [...] Trinidadian Sinistra posts part two of her “Young and Black in Babylondon” series: ‘“So, what do you speak in the Caribbean? African?”’ Georgia [...] [...] Trinidadian Sinistra posts part two of her “Young and Black in Babylondon” series: ‘“So, what do you speak in the Caribbean? African?”’ Georgia [...]

]]> http://theliminghouse.org/2007/02/27/young-and-black-in-babylondon-part-deux/comment-page-1/#comment-13 mar Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:27:23 +0000 http://theliminghouse.org/2007/02/27/young-and-black-in-babylondon-part-deux/#comment-13 I real like this. For me it was a lil different, i have the same middle-class upbringing, the same circle of friends who not quite one or the other, and those that are just one, are firmly set in class. But like you, I too had to face the aspect of "blackness", how it relates to me and how I relate to it. Walter Rodney, maybe in "Groundings with my Brothers" said that Rastafari addressed the issue of who you are and where you stand in relation to blackness. And this, like the question of your Martiniquan friend, has stayed with me. You ever read any Fanon? I real like this.
For me it was a lil different, i have the same middle-class upbringing, the same circle of friends who not quite one or the other, and those that are just one, are firmly set in class. But like you, I too had to face the aspect of “blackness”, how it relates to me and how I relate to it. Walter Rodney, maybe in “Groundings with my Brothers” said that Rastafari addressed the issue of who you are and where you stand in relation to blackness. And this, like the question of your Martiniquan friend, has stayed with me.
You ever read any Fanon?

]]> http://theliminghouse.org/2007/02/27/young-and-black-in-babylondon-part-deux/comment-page-1/#comment-1064 mar Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:27:23 +0000 http://theliminghouse.org/2007/02/27/young-and-black-in-babylondon-part-deux/#comment-1064 I real like this.<br>For me it was a lil different, i have the same middle-class upbringing, the same circle of friends who not quite one or the other, and those that are just one, are firmly set in class. But like you, I too had to face the aspect of "blackness", how it relates to me and how I relate to it. Walter Rodney, maybe in "Groundings with my Brothers" said that Rastafari addressed the issue of who you are and where you stand in relation to blackness. And this, like the question of your Martiniquan friend, has stayed with me.<br>You ever read any Fanon? I real like this.
For me it was a lil different, i have the same middle-class upbringing, the same circle of friends who not quite one or the other, and those that are just one, are firmly set in class. But like you, I too had to face the aspect of “blackness”, how it relates to me and how I relate to it. Walter Rodney, maybe in “Groundings with my Brothers” said that Rastafari addressed the issue of who you are and where you stand in relation to blackness. And this, like the question of your Martiniquan friend, has stayed with me.
You ever read any Fanon?

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