rs. Compiling dossiers, tracking down documents, trans-porting and escorting people to the office to submit applications required an army of NGOworkers, advocates from churches and human rights organizations, sub-Saharan studentswith legal residence, and migrant middleme
plus getting these docs is v hard, and is a form of control, a further barrier, exclusive to some migrants, and has to be renewed each year
as racialize
plus intl community wont consider the race factor, they''ll say this is good, it's more humane, and they have a path to integration in morocco, instead of desert dumping to avoid hr trafficking,
for
contractors get cheap labour or free labour from these migrant communities in morocco
andonment in Casablanca and FesIn Morocco, abandonment reshuffles border geographies and the actors and operations ofpower within the b
different kind of dumping, instead of dumping into the desert, it's in the city, disposable reusable objects, moroccan economic benefit
in the dark
darkness here showing not skin colour or mood, but isolation, further from others.
the group of smart childrensmart Chinese children,
"smart" is a racialised trait for east asians it becomes a colour line, also talking abt east asians being the model minority in america, and how fitting into that is also separating u from these ppl, but it is also the best way to get to proximity to whiteness
pt white, the shellof my soul, but not my dark, rough skin
double consciousness, going on, she feels like she is white andar se, cause u cant rlly be american if ur not white, so she feels from the inside she is compatible with whiteness, but isnt so, so being poc but raised american is a complete attack on your personhood and identity and thats what she felt growing up
purple mountains,
purple is opposite to yellow on colour wheel. but next to the mountains are east asian ppl so she wants to be near them,but also away from them
thought that godmade white people clean
but they wear imported cotton dresses and cashmere sweaters?
mported cotton dresses, their cashmere
cotton and cotton picking from south asia, ughyr ppl from china, central asian countries, and kashmire-cashmere
Nellie Wong
talks about yellow ppl. and east asian context during world war 2, and internment era druring world war 2, andtalks about opium crisis ineast asian people, at the time, and this issue in bad neighbourhoods, and w the shooting up of their arms and talks abt dirtiness and feeling dirty because she isnt white
was growing up, people would askif I were Filipino, Polynesian, Portuguese.They named all colors except white, the shellof my soul, but not my dark, rough skinwhen I was growing up, I feltdirty. I thought that godmade white people cleanand no matter how much I bathed,I could not change, I could not shedmy skin in the gray waterwhen I was growing up, I sworeI would run away to purple mountains,
style is like similar to how a child would write, and cyclical poem, it ends the way it starts, very disjointed word vomit type of poem, reads like a confession also, we dont know where things start or end, plus lack of capitalisation,
you s
this bridge is a metaphor but therer are historical material realities, there is historical materialism
bridge
smth that you step on, are woc stepped on
e crazy at your holiday dinnersSick of being the odd
often scizhophrenia is used as a metaphor of madness as being woc, and sickness-madness is to be politically present to be mad?
ck o
use of the metaphor as sickness is important alos, is being woc beingsick when u are in the world, becaue like either ur crazy and everyone else is normal or they're crazy and ur the only one who is normal, also black women becoming an object of learning for the world, and the decentering of herself in the poem, but it is the larger experience for being woc
Stretch or drownEvolve or die
the lack of ounctuation shows the exhaustion and urgency in the poem and also the pedestal women of oclour are put on
deal with questions of endogeneity concerning leader selectionand the propensity for leaders to have prior military service or rebel experience. In par-ticular, it is tempting to think that any effect of military experience might be attribut-able to a screening process whereby countries in dangerous neighborhoods are morelikely to select leaders with prior military experience. We control for this possibilitythroughout. We also show that our results hold even when looking at leaders’ entranceinto office though the most “random” possible process and by controlling statisticallyfor whether or not a leader is likely to have prior military experience
all methodology stuff
angered
studying if the internment of rebels increases grievances or not
he entire Irish War of Independence.
this is a highly specific case chosen on purpose, the idea is that the holding ppl in guantanamo bay or the british soldiers' actions in nairobi will actually increase grievances and make it more likely yhey return to the rebelling
ere dating and dances, but not for goodChinese girls. “You ought to develop yourself soc
shes' scared she might get set up with the guy who has special needs and is slow or whatever plus her lack of freedom is rlly present here too, she doesnt have the same rights as other students at school
ght we were beggarswithout a home who lived in back of the laundry. They felt sorry forus. I did not eat their candy. I did not go inside
fragmentation and immigrant pain and division
hen she
more linear account unlike the rest of the book, linear narrative structure here
be a fox that doesn’t even knowhow to transform itself. You’re not clever for a Fox Spirit, I mustsay. No tricks. No blood. Where are your hanged man’s rottingnoose and icy breath? No throwing shoes into the rafters? Nometamorphosis into a beautiful sad lady? No di
confronting and naming it, a diff type of spirit, which loses its power, put in a diff category
ht only to study live things, thoughtnever to know so much about the dead.Now I tend Ship Island graves, moun
dichotomoy and fragmentation as he remembers his life as a slave and his life now and he still thinks about the worst parts of this war, the death, the misery, etc
ord came of colored troops, deadon the battlefield at Port Hudson; howGeneral Banks was heard to say I haveno dead there, and left the
not given basic respect even from generals fighting on the sam side of the army but death makes them all equal
. We hunger, grow weak.When men die, we eat their share of hardtac
the harsh realities of the war for both sides plus the perspective of the white confederate soldiers men who lost what they did in the process of the war and thechanging of power dynamics plus humanises the confederate soldiers
atched and learned. Like any shrewd master,we know now to tie down what we will keep
watch and learn from the whips on the sand that ight for freeedom from man with the power of the wind, the power of nature which is of course free and wild as it natural law, nature's law for freedom, nature is against thngs being tied down, and so they learn to keep their new found freedom from the whips and from the wind and from nature.
racked like whips on the sand
same way they were whipped, it sparks bitter memory
ps of rain began to fall while astrong wind blew up. A flash of lightning accompanied by a dull rattle ofthunder burst out of the east and lit up the whole sky as far as the west.
specia; child, prophetic vibes, dfate and nature and outside forces