It has some crucial analysis of the roots of white racism and its overlap with technology, and the portrayal of blacks in sci-fi. This book by Louis Chude-Sokei, begins with a trenchant expose of 19th century racism but ends by being absorbed in sophisticated cultural studies.
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Animal genetics: new agreements on an old topic
For hundreds of millions of poor rural households, livestock remain a key asset, often meeting multiple needs, and enabling livelihoods to be built in some of the world’s harshest environments.
Forward the fracture!
Daniel Rodgers’ book “Age of fracture” argues that the consensus underlying western society has become fractured, and any notion of cultural unity lost. Steve Latham He traces this back to roots within both conservative and liberal thinking in the last quarter of the Twentieth Century. Both Right and […]
The wickedness of “media bashing”
One of their worst qualities is their intensely public impunity. There is no going back. The slander, lies, rumours, gossip, false evidence and generally all the attacks provided by the civil and penal codes, are especially hostile when they happen in public, without boundaries or possible restraint. Fernando Buen […]
Jose Marti and his “Night from the other side of his dreams”
The little book jumps into my hands in a mysterious way early in the morning: It is the Jose Marti’s campaign dairy on the way from Cap-Haïtien to Dos Ríos, published in 1978 by the Social Sciences publishing house, La Habana, Cuba. Armando Orozco Tovar There is […]
















