There is so much good stuff in this carnival that I have trouble picking out my favourites. And frankly. I haven't even gone into the archives myself, its been people on my friends list who have been pointing out the awesome!
Anyway, for fun and info, lets do some categories and start with histories:
Via:
coffeeandink we find
veejay who writes of
Awesome people you have never heard of and
Black Slaves and Settlers in the US West
spiralsheep posts on
In which there are African-American women and voting, an illustrated guide In short, there were African American
suffragettes!Funny how my history books ignore that....
In addition to
In which non-white people fought for Britainand about
Bessie Stringfield, 1911-1993, pioneering Jamaican-American motorcyclist to say nothing of
Wiiliam Cuffy: (1788-1870), black Briton, born disabled, professional tailor, beloved husband, trade unionist, Chartist, British politician, and Tasmanian politician; became a leader of the Chartist movement, which was the first mass, working class, political movement in the industrialised world. Dear Lor' in heaven but HE was a busy man. I get tired just THINKING about him!
From
oursin comes
IBARW Day IV: some useful resources which more web resources that can be used to find out about the Histories of Black and Asian Peoples in Britain.
wolfinthewoodJohn Faw, lord and earl of Little Egypt makes me blink. I had no CLUE that ancestors of today's Romany were from India. But the fact that when they first came to Europe they were received with pomp and ceremony as Lords and Kings? Lor' don't times change.
mercuriosity sketches out how Asian Americans went
From Yellow Peril to Model Minority and provides a couple of good links
oyceter drops knowledge and history in order to counteract the derailing tactic used in so many Heroes discussions:
But Japan is racist too!
wolfinthewood introduces us to an example of ‘jest-biography’ in
The Life of Black Tom
the_red_shoes exposes
The Myth of The Crying Indian Commercial
teralogist points out a couple of riots that seem to have been written right out of the historical record in
Things that are forgotten Turns out that whites have a history of rioting from time to time. Who knew?
commodorified writes an entry
IBARW: In which I wibble and do not come to the point. Assuming I have one., but still manages to drop an astonishing about of history into our heads anyway.
Veering off LJ a bit, we end up at the
National Library of Australia where we see that
White Australia has a Black History': Sources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in the National Library of Australia Also,
Zuky writes about
The unexamined Propaganda of Political CorrectnessShe/ He also has a Series called the Chinese American Experience:
Part One: Exclusion and the Driving OutPart Two: Wong Chin Foo,
Part Three: Donaldina CameronPart Four: Paper Sons and DaughtersAnna Mary Wongand there should be a part six coming soon.
and finally from
The Black Agenda Report we get this
The Hearts of Darkness: How European Writers Created the Racist image of AfricaWHEW! THAT was a lot. I can't help it, LOADS of stuff interest me. But, have at it and enjoy!