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  1. CW: Baftas / Tourettes / racism: excellent post from Ijeoma Oluo.

    In particular about the burden placed on Black people to respond gracefully when racist stuff happens in public - not so much about Tourettes in particular, though a little about that too.

    "Every Black person I know has a story of just trying to get through their day when some racist shit pops up. Every Black person I know has to regularly calculate their safety in those moments and figure out their next move. And every Black person I know is punished for whichever way they choose to react. If they are openly angry then they are dangerous, or militant, overreacting, or lacking empathy for the person who has just harmed them. If they react with kindness or a desire to educate then they are forced to carry the emotions of the person who has just harmed them. If they decide to ignore it then they are told by others that it’s obvious by their reaction that this harm is acceptable and it will continue in with gusto.

    "These moments happen at work, on the street, in the grocery store. And they apparently also happen to our most celebrated actors onstage in front of an audience of millions. And when it happens, with the cameras rolling, they will have to assess their safety, gather their emotions, and continue on. Customers are waiting."

    ijeomaoluo.substack.com/p/raci

    #racism #antiblackness #bafta #BBC #Tourettes

  2. archive.org/details/slavery-an

    Slavery and the French Revolutionists (1788-1805) by Anna Julia Cooper; Frances Richardson Keller

    Topics
    #slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #antiblackness, #frenchrevolution, #HaitianRevolution, #frenchempire, #frenchcolonialism, #frenchimperialism, #Haiti, #paris, #translatlanticslavetrade, #abolitionists, #abolitionism, #Martinique, #Matinik, #Matnik, #counterrevolution

    The first translation and publication of a 1925 doctoral dissertation written for the University of Paris by a 67-year-old Black amerikan expatriate woman who had been born a slave. Her study of the french revolutionists' view of slavery is crucial to understanding the growth of human rights.

  3. archive.org/details/passage-po

    Passage, Port and Plantation: A History of Solomon Islands Labour Migration, 1870-1914 by Peter Corris

    Topics
    #SolomonIslands, #queensland, #PacificIslands, #Fiji, #Samoa, #Melanesia, #Melanesians, #britishimperialism, #australianimperialism, #indenturedservitude, #slavery, #britain, #australia, #Oceania, #antiblackness

    more than 30,000 Solomon Islanders were used by colonizers to build australia and Pacific Island colonies.

  4. archive.org/details/oldkbpreco

    2013-2018 u.s. police killings data

    Topics
    #KilledByPolice, #killedbypolicenet, #statistics, #genocide, #unitedstatesofamerika, #antiblackness, #ACAB, #FTP, #antiblackracism, #fascism, #police, #policing, #slavepatrols, #21stcentury, #executions

    this is a re-presentation of data on killedbypolice.net, a site which recorded incidents of police killing people in the 50 states of the united states of amerika. for the time period covered (1 may 2013 - 31 july 2018), this is a more exhaustive dataset than many in use today. (the current owner of the domain killedbypolice.net is an entirely different entity than that which maintained the website during the period covered by this dataset.)

    * column key
    G=Gun; T=Taser; R=Restraint/Physical Force; C=Chemical; V=Vehicle; O=Other

    data source pages
    2013: archive.vn/I8Skq
    2014: archive.vn/1FeQT
    2015: archive.vn/1Y32s
    2016: archive.vn/h2qBK
    2017: archive.vn/GB46F
    2018: archive.vn/gbhOM