[Xmca-l] Re: My Hometown Minneapolis

Wed Jun 3 16:28:19 PDT 2020

Hi David-

Where have you NOT been!

CulturalPraxis is a work in progress taken on by the MCA editorial board a
few years ago.  After a giant push by Alfredo, a sort of CP2.0 was
announced
on XMCA, but it is by no means intended as the mature facility.  As I
understand it, CP2.0 is intended as a complement to MCA, a medium for
enriching our research and teaching by making room for, and encouraging, a
diversity of voices.

The website was re-started a couple of weeks ago to respond rapidly to the
rapid events that were overtaking us BEFORE covid-19 appeared.
It was designed to be modifiable in the clear recognition that its
functions and conventions are to be worked out by users over time. So,
people should
feel welcome both to make suggestions by writing to
culturalpraxis@ils.uio.no.  As you will see the discussion on the home page
is focused on the covid-19 + inequality + global warming.  Last week racism
"came out" as an incendiary ingredient in the combination of threats to our
social institutions we are all witnessing.

So the hurryup mode of the current iteration of CP reflects the hurry up
mode in which events have rained down on us.
Now the question is, who is going to do the work that comes with taking CP
to the next level?  If you have web design skills and are interested in
volunteering to help, I am pretty sure that the editorial board of MCA will
be very happy to hear from you!

My idea, David, was for someone such as yourself to pull together the
informative reports we collected from around the world of how covid was
affecting xmca members. But that was a couple of weeks ago and the
racial/class explosion of the last week has probably passed it by. Given
how fast events are moving the new CP2.0 has gotten off to a great start.
But how it will develop, and who will join in the process, is a work in
progress. Hopefully it will develop in a manner that opens up the space of
academic communication in a productive way.

mike

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peerssing the range of toicultural historical
long confronted with the virus of racism,
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On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 3:05 PM David Kellogg <dkellogg60@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was born in Minneapolis and grew up on both sides of the 3rd Precinct
> (which burned down last week in what I have to say was an entirely
> proportionate response to the murder of George Floyd).
>
> Minneapolis is a town that's very well known for progressive politics--but
> it's also known as one of the most tightly segregated cities in the USA. I
> went to elementary school in Prospect Park, which had a chain-link fence
> dividing the white part and the black part, and I remember the column of
> black kids coming through the single opening in the fence, because it was
> halfway to my own elementary school, Sidney Pratt, on Tower Hill.
>
> Minneapolis also has a Police Federation, which is not a "union" but a
> paramilitary organization which has a long history of defying the
> Democratic-Farmer-Labor government, defending officers who murder black
> people (George Floyd, Jamar Clark, Philando Castile)
> and financing fly-by-night "Warrior Training" programmes that teach cops
> how to use hair-trigger weapons bought army-surplus from overseas
> deployments of the US military. Bob Kroll, the head of the federation,
> sported a "white power" badge, and called George Floyd a violent criminal
> (but he also said pretty much the same thing about Keith Ellison and Barack
> Obama).
>
> There's another Minneapolis. In 1934, radicals in the Teamsters Union
> launched one of only four general strikes in American history (typical
> Minnesota tactics--coal drivers struck in the dead of winter!) It changed
> the Teamsters from a craft union to an industrial union. Yesterday a group
> of health experts (also in Minneapolis) issued a statement which recognized
> the need to mobilize in defense of the most-hard hit section of the
> population in this pandemic, but worried a lot about spikes triggered in
> mass demonstrations. As I watch events in my hometown from afar, I wonder
> if it's not time for a second Minneapolis general strike.
>
> (Mike--I was going to post this on CulturalPraxis as you suggested, but
> there's some kind of log-in over there, and I'm not a member....)
>
> David Kellogg
> Sangmyung University
>
> New Article: Ruqaiya Hasan, in memoriam: A manual and a manifesto.
> Outlines, Spring 2020
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