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This is admittedly A Take, but it's genuine and I hope it will be engaged as such.

I noticed the language here refers to "minorities" in regards to race often. I think that should stop. It isn't demographics that are responsible for racial oppression, it's power dynamics and ostensibly anti-racist language should reflect that.

Some might try to point out that in some areas, non-white communities are literally minorities. I only think this is true from the viewpoint of majority-white, European colonialist countries, and that isn't a viewpoint which should be assumed or taken for granted, given they are the oppressors in this situation. Globally, no single race constitutes a majority. Locally, "minorities" quickly become "majorities" if you draw boundaries appropriately—for example, a given group may be 20% of the population of a given city, but in certain neighborhoods of that city they are 60-90% of the residents.

I'm pointing this out because in general decolonization is neglected in "people of color" spaces so that racially oppressed people strive to become equal participants in a racially oppressive system rather than destroying that system altogether. It would be nice if that did not happen here.

cross-posted from: https://baraza.africa/post/299555

Some excerpts I pulled are below.

with extremely few exceptions, especially outside of southern Africa, scholars of continental Africa do not engage the complex ways that race continues to be significant in this postcolonial moment.

The North–sub-Saharan Africa divide shapes continental and global politics (take, for example, the coverage of the “Arab Spring”). … in treating these two geographical areas as distinct—without the associated analysis of the basis of this distinction—we lose sight of the impact of global racial projects in maintaining such a separation

We need to take bold steps to dismantle the established theoretical, methodological, and epistemological structures that continue to impede race analysis on the African continent.

Some excerpts I pulled are below.

with extremely few exceptions, especially outside of southern Africa, scholars of continental Africa do not engage the complex ways that race continues to be significant in this postcolonial moment.

The North–sub-Saharan Africa divide shapes continental and global politics (take, for example, the coverage of the “Arab Spring”). … in treating these two geographical areas as distinct—without the associated analysis of the basis of this distinction—we lose sight of the impact of global racial projects in maintaining such a separation

We need to take bold steps to dismantle the established theoretical, methodological, and epistemological structures that continue to impede race analysis on the African continent.

!politics so far largely features topics on the internal politics of the united states. I don't see any statements from the Beehaw team suggesting this is intentional or explicit (feel free to correct me if I missed this), so I think it would be good to have such posts mostly go in a separate subcommunity, something for which there's a precedent with !socialism.

I don't interpret this as a ban on anything about the u.s. being mentioned in the general space, just like I don't interpret the existence of !socialism as banning discussions around socialist politics in the general space. I just think it would be an improvement. Curious what others think.

I'm usually unable to access new communities or instances using the typical process described of putting the handle or URL into the search bar. I noticed this from the beginning, but I waited a couple days to become more familiar with how it worked properly, and in a couple cases things seem to have improved somewhat. But the problem in general remains.

I understand that this could be a general problem not exclusive to Baraza, but I thought I should mention it here in case there are some special or unique conditions applied that I did not know about.

I made a post to beehaw.org which got multiple comments and I didn't get notified for any of them. But I have gotten notifications for posts I've made to lemmy.ml. Anyone having similar issues?

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/588624

Hello everyone! I wanted to share a tool that allows you to find communities that you are interested in.

Link: https://browse.feddit.de/

You can search for a community (say, "solarpunk"). Then copy the link into your Lemmy search bar and subscribe to the community! It's posts will then show up on your subscribed feed automatically.

Alternatively, you can use a list of communities. I have created such a list:

Link: https://midwest.social/post/382481

I hope this has helped! Comment if you have any questions or want a recommendation.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1215308

Hello,

If I open: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] and https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support in 2 different tabs, I don't see the same posts at all, even with the same sorting option selected.

Is it just because the servers are overloaded and there is some delay in the synchronization?

Thanks for your help trying to understanding the fediverse inner working.

So that if you paste a link to one of those big social media platforms, it offers to replace it with a working alternative front-end.

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/561669

The product of a decade of research, this landmark collection … seeks to document and map the extraordinary and diverse landscape of African women’s oral and written literatures. Presenting voices rarely heard outside Africa, some recorded as early as the mid-nineteenth century, as well as rediscovered gems by such well-known authors as Bessie Head and Doris Lessing, this volume reveals a living cultural legacy that will revolutionize the understanding of African women’s literary and cultural production.

Each text is accompanied by a scholarly headnote that provides detailed historical background. An introduction by the editors sets the broader historical stage and explores the many issues involved in collecting and combining orature and literature from diverse cultures in one volume. Unprecedented in its scope and achievement, this volume will be an essential resource for anyone interested in women’s history, culture, and literature in Africa, and worldwide.

cross-posted from: https://baraza.africa/post/292797

Would like to know if people are trying it and how well it's working.