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Already such a relatable book

I really enjoyed reading about the ways Native Americans and newly arrived Africans taught each other different methods of cultivating land and growing food

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It was interesting to read about how Belle Hooks encountered upper class black students who could relate to the feelings of a black person from the lower class. Feelings of suicide, fear of seeming inferior to their white peers, etc.

Throughout my research this summer, I realize my thesis that class is more important than race is wrong. Race impacts how one experiences class. Class privilege does not erase racism.

“Culture refuses to see violence in women, and the law nurtures a special loathing for violent women. Unfettered violence, anger unleashed, the will to destroy, the need to undo—these acts run counter to everything we like to think we know about the feminine nature.” (226) I want to look into whether violent offenders who are women get harsher sentences than violent offenders who are men.

Interesting to be reading a book that mixes love/sex with cannibalism after watching Bones and All which does the same thing. I’ve never thought of these themes being connected.

Interesting to think about how psychopathy and other mental and personality disorders translate based on social roles like how differently a male vs female psychopath behaves.

“We must understand that our success is dependent upon collective actions and collective decisions and that means genuinely involving everyone.” (227)

Many of the people involved in the league emphasized community. I feel like leftist today dislike anyone who does not think like them, but how can they expect to change anything if they won’t talk to the people who can help change it with them.

It’s so interesting to see how similar themes from Robin Wall’s book Serviceberries appeared here. “The continuing dynamic of race relations encapsulates the economic, political, and cultural mindset of a society based on a model of economic scarcity.” (208) — reform is based on division (ex: affirmative action). “Rage is the option offered that would life all Americans.” (208)

Cockerel quote summary: Reform that delayed revolution is bad. Reform that reveals the system’s failure and moves people toward revolution is good. (184)

Isaac shorter: Emphasizing class over race. “Because it’s not a racial thing. It’s the system, which is a capitalist system. It oppresses all people.” (190) — could this diminish the racial experience?

“Hundred of black families had their doors literally broken down and their lives threatened by groups of white men in plain clothes who had no search warrants and often did not bother to identify themselves as police.” (171) -seems like law enforcement (like ICE) never change their ways in how they police populations they deem a threat. Law enforcement is military for domestic, rather than international, threat.