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Support the Wilsons and buy Val's book:

Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House
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The Devil's Highway: A True Story
by Luis Alberto Urrea

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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
by Tim Weiner

What's going on in Iraq:

Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
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On BooMan’s shelf:

The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End
by Peter W. Galbraith

This looks interesting:

Adventure Divas
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The New Golden Age:
The Coming Revolution Against
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by Ravi Batra

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"Explosive" State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
by James Risen


The book the CIA doesn't want you to read: Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
Larry Johnson's review


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Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History (Third Edition)


The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!


The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus



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When someone who's in a minority is talking about a group of people expressing collectively racist action, they're often seeing the (probably) unconscious expression of structural racism. We live in a racist society, and without intentional effort to the contrary, members of racist societies tend to replicate the social structures of society at large. A member of that group can decide to feel personally attacked, or they can stop and consider whether or not it applies to them, and whether or not they can proactively try to address the situation.

This is not the same as someone telling you, you personally, that you've said or done something racist. If that's the case, then reactive denial is definitely not your best, first bet.

Yet consider, as I wrote the other day, that even after years of studying the issues and educating myself, have sexist attitudes. I'd consider myself a strongly feminist woman, but I see in myself sometimes attitudes that are dismissive of other women on judgmental foundations that are purely sexist stereotypes, or putting up with behavior in men that originates solely in the dominant culture's message that they have more latitude to act as they please. It's the inevitable result of having been raised in a sexist culture. I can't help it, I can only keep trying to teach myself to act right.

How much of a stretch is it to deduce that I probably have racist attitudes that I don't know about? Even if I'd rather not. Even if it repulses me. Even if the very idea of it makes me furious. And it doesn't make it better if every time I find myself manifesting an atrocious attitude, and decide to act better than that, I act like I should get a cookie or a pat on the head.

Because my racist and sexist attitudes are marks of my own opression. They're the ways in which I've been mentally and emotionally crippled by my society so that instead of working with my fellow citizens for us to all have a better world, I end up at odds with them. And people like the Bush and Cheney clans laugh at us all the way to the bank, because we're too weak to pose a serious challenge to their kleptocracy. When I free myself of racism and sexism, I free myself, and that should be its own reward.

by Natasha Chart (natasha.the at gmail dot com) on Thu Aug 16th, 2007 at 05:41:49 PM EST
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