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vintagesareeblouse:

Hi Anon, thank you!

No I haven’t taken any classes. I am a scientist (which is perhaps why I am a little anal about attribution). I love history though and have taken a few classes now and then. As for the fashion - I love clothes and the beauty inherent in them and I truly believe in what Eileen Chang once said - even the tiniest ruffle tells you something about history. Hence the blog. 

There are some very well researched academic books on Indian fashion - Roshan Alkazi’s Ancient Indian Costume, Ghurye’s Indian Costume etc. It’s a pity so many are out of print. There is in fact a coherent pattern to Indian fashion and I must admit my thoughts on it evolve with each post! 

eastafrodite:

themindislimitless:

If you have any more, or alternate links just in case these ever get removed, feel free to add to the list. Pass the resources along!

• Ain’t I a Woman (pdf)
• Art on my Mind (pdf download)
• Black Women Intellectuals (pdf) (from Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life with Cornel West)
• Cultural Criticism and Transformation (pdf download)
• Cultural Criticism and Transformation (youtube video, part 1)
• Ending Domination: The Struggle Continues (youtube video, full)
• Feminism Is For Everybody (pdf)
• Is Paris Burning? (pdf download)
• Love as the Practice of Freedom (pdf download)
• Outlaw Culture (pdf download) 
• Race and Representation (pdf download)
• Remembered Rapture: Dancing With Words (pdf)
• Selling Hot Pussy: Representations of Black Female Sexuality in the Cultural Marketplace. (pdf)
• Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (pdf download)
• The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators. (pdf)
• Understanding Patriarchy (pdf) 
• Where We Stand: Class Matters (pdf)
• We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity (pdf). Also here.

Edit as of 24 June: list updated and alphabetized. Many thanks to wretchedoftheearth, elainecastillo, grim-dark, erosum and mmmajestic who all helped add links and resources.

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this-is-not-native:

So while combing through the interwebs for .pdf books on unrelated subjects, I happened upon zinelibrary.info- an anarchist collective dedicated to the free distribution of radical literature. They have a lot of titles by authors mentioned in this post, as well as many others covering relevant topics. Here are a few that I think may be of interest:

• Custer Died for Your Sins- An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria, Jr.
• God Is Red: A Native View of Religion by Vine Deloria, Jr.
• Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader
• From a Native Son: Selected Essays on Indigenism 1985-1995 by Ward Churchill
• Since Predator Came: Notes from the Struggle for American Indian Liberation by Ward Churchill
• Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization by Ward Churchill
• Perversions of Justice: Indigenous Peoples and Angloamerican Law by Ward Churchill
• The Bloody Wake of Alcatraz- Political Repression of the American Indian Movement During the 1970’s by Ward Chruchill
• The Case of Leonard Peltier by Arthur J. Miller and Pio Celestino (zine)
• 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance (zine)
• Cultural Appropriation or Cultural Appreciation? (zine) 
• Not an Indian Tradition: The Sexual Colonization of Native Peoples by Andrea Smith (article)
• Headdress (a small zine on native appropriation)
• Colonization and Decolonization: A Manual for Indigenous Liberation in the 21st Century (zine)

Of course, there’s an entire “indigenous” section of the site (not limited to North America!) as well as a section on race. Happy reading! Time to check some books off my reading list!

-Kirby

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lucidstrike:

sara-huynh:

Volume 3, Number 3

CONTENTS

Transforming Ethnic Studies
Manning Marable

Tokyo Bound: African Americans and Japan Confront White Supremacy
Gerald Horne

Yellow Power: The Formation of Asian-American Nationalism in the Age of Black Power, 1966-1975
Jeffery O.G. Ogbar

East of the Sun (West of the Moon): Islam, the Ahmadis, and African America
Moustafa Bayoumi 

Linking African and Asian in Passing and Passage: The Pagoda and the True History of Paradise
Lisa Yun

B-Boys and Bass Girls: Sex, Style, and Mobility in Indian American Youth Culture
Sunaina Marr Maira

Building the Antiracist, Anti-Imperalist United Front: Theory and Practice from the L.A. Strategy Center and Bus Riders Union
Eric Mann

Adding: ‘Left or Right of the Color Line: Asian Americans and the Racial Justice Movement’ from ChangeLab

Always reblog.

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friendofhagrid:

4 Legal Ways To Get Free Textbooks.

howtodropoutofschool:

1. Open Culture:  Not a large a selection, but high quality texts. If you just want to skim a book to brush up on a course you took in ninth grade, download one of these. I have yet to be disappointed.

2. Book Boon: Provides free college-level textbooks in a PDF format. Probably the widest range of subjects on the web. The site is also pretty.

3. Flat World Knowledge: The worlds largest publisher of free and open college textbooks. Humanitie texts are particularly difficult to come by, this site has a great selection in all disciplines.

4. Textbook Revolution:  Some of the books are PDF files, others are viewable online as e-books, or some are simply web sites containing course or multimedia content.

5. Library Pirate: I’ve always had an addiction to torrent based pirating. When this site opened a few months ago, I went a little overboard. After dropping two hundred on a paperback spanish textbook, I downloaded the ebook version illegally. I also got a great Psyc text i’m obsessed with.  It will be interesting to see how this site grows- they already have a great selection. 

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