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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2004

Sorry about taking down the excerpt from the Jamaica chapter yall but I get back (hopefully) final edits from SMP today and I was feeling all self-conscious and shit. Plus, nobody wants to read long posts that aren’t off-the-chain rants anyway.

More importantly, it’s Super Tuesday. Vote early and vote Kucinich yall, the only candidate who has taken young people of color seriously.

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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2004

Where do I send my check for the SFJ fan club? Here he is on Arthur Russell in The New Yorker. What? The New Yorker. (Thanks to Matos W.K for the link.

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Monday, March 1st, 2004

Blog post of the week!

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Monday, March 1st, 2004

LIKE, VOTING ROCKS

It’s so nice to know that Harvard baby boomers, like, really care about us, dude.

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Monday, March 1st, 2004

THE CASE OF JAMAICA IN THE 70s

So here’s an excerpt from Chapter 2, “Sipple Out Deh: Jamaica’s Roots Generation and the Cultural Turn”. It talks about how what I call the experience of Jamaica’s “roots generation” was prophetic in many ways of the hip-hop generation.

Anyway the point of comparison with Haiti of last week: Aid and loans are the carrot the U.S. uses to keep the Caribbean in line, embargos and destabilization–usually through street thuggery–are the stick. The results are all too predictable. Instability is the rule, not the exception.

Read it today! I may have to take this down soon!

[snip…sorry it’s gone!]

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Monday, March 1st, 2004

micah holmquist with a wealth of links on the foreign policies of the “Aristide of the U.S.” (!!!) and Haiti’s past. I’m thinking I may post short parts of my book chapter on Jamaica. U.S. foreign policy in the Caribbean has been surprisingly consistent–consistently horrible, that is–over the last century. Roots, dub, and dancehall have offered street-level proof at every turn…

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