[Xmca-l] Re: Emotion as "Sputnik"

Fri Jun 19 18:27:00 PDT 2020

It is a Bakhtinian moment!  In fact, I just realized when I read your note that intersectionality and intersectional allies call out for Bakhtin type thinking.  

I noticed an unusual pattern developing this week.  While black organizations organized the Juneteenth rallies, marches, teach-ins, demonstrations that occurred all day (and some tomorrow), many different allied organizations used their own text lists and email lists to urge participation of their members and followers in the day’s events. The messages that were sent typically describe the day, give details about a half dozen of the events, and describe how the allied organization’s main purpose is consistent with celebrating Juneteenth because it is tied to achieving racial justice and/or the breakdown of white supremacy.  From local groups (like one formed to get DC voting representation in the House and Senate) to international groups like Amnesty international, from groups focusing on the climate crisis to ones focusing on indigenous peoples and immigrants, from litigation groups like ACLU and SPLC to religious and arts groups and school/uni alumni. I asked anyone I chatted with about the texts/emails/social media they got the Juneteenth events this week and virtually everyone got at least a half dozen from surprising sources.

For me, this is about avoiding “future forgetting,” as you put it, Mike.  What’s that saying about in variability there is hope?  When Planned Parenthood, for instance, is telling people on its e-mail list about Juneteenth celebrations they can participate in, well, what can I say?  Intersectionality and variability and hope, that’s what. 

Peg

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Its a Bakhtinian moment, Peg, when when repressed voices bring back a national memory

and the consciousness of a nation (consciousness as humans' relationship to nature and each other) has

undergone a qualitative shift. Will it be papered over by future forgetting? Too soon to tell. 

If Juneteenth becomes a national holiday, it would be a very interesting shift in national memorializing and perhaps,

even, race relations.

For those like me who have inherited only a foggy notion of  Juneteenth , the attached link might be helpful.

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/*inbox/WhctKJVrDFZHHxRlWkntMlVkVGGMxhnSmgMtqSjmJRWnZRpQjsxLHhpHTlPVtsZRbGvGkBv__;Iw!!Mih3wA!Wk9vHZWX_6-l7ECKZ5Oqr2oIMxtdz_TPVfSgKzQL1muwo87sDE19KsY7vB1bjoeBkoupmQ$  <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/mail.google.com/mail/u/0/*inbox/WhctKJVrDFZHHxRlWkntMlVkVGGMxhnSmgMtqSjmJRWnZRpQjsxLHhpHTlPVtsZRbGvGkBv__;Iw!!Mih3wA!URjX7UEtEjKC9GjF4K7CtoTq6JHOljqil1jLajq7UdsEwHQHmq3v1ap9-GQC2cDEuPmgLQ$>  

mike 

On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 9:07 AM Peg Griffin, Ph.D. <Peg.Griffin@att.net <mailto:Peg.Griffin@att.net> > wrote:

Phillip,

Your note on missing voices reminded me of Sandro Duranti once saying that he had gained ears.

And it seems a propos of a good Juneteenth Day.  So…

Long ago and far away (from me right now at least), before xmca,  even before xlchc maybe, in two funny temporary buildings in a little grove of a few trees with occasional ocean breezes and a picnic table and benches, there were a bunch of what some on the staff called “labbies,” with lots of differences in academic standing, community culture, family race, nationality, and short and long term motives.  We gathered and gave each other questions and occasional answers and lots of worrying and enjoying.  

Along came Sandro as a post doc.  His family lived in LA and he stayed in San Diego for several days a week.  After a month or so, he told us about a party he went to over the weekend when he was back in LA.  As usual there were lots of local university faculty and students.  He said it felt different for him, though.  And he had finally pinned down what it was. 

He was listening with extra ears – ears from black and brown people who constituted a large portion of the lab, its taken for granted history, its day to day goings on.  He heard things that needed to be countered, challenged, questioned, discussed – things that might have just passed by before but now seemed to be things that wouldn’t be said had he been a person of color from the Lab.  His extra ears gave him ideas, feelings, words and motives that he hadn’t experienced before.

Sandro is a gifted anthropologist, originally from Italy, with advanced degrees from the US.  And a dear sweet man.

Peg

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Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Emotion as "Sputnik"

David - very contextualising background information - which i appreciate.  do you think that there is a thread here in the activity of resolving disputes that 'might makes right' - 

reflecting on my initial response to Veresov, could have been an emotional sputnik - so much tension in the air these days here in denver - but i don't want to make excuses -

i'm reminded on Nina Simone's song:

Alabama's gotten me so upset
Tennessee made me lose my rest
And everybody knows about Mississippi goddam

not just racism, but all isms have just gotten to me recently -  and i'm missing the voices of twenty years ago - to mention just a few: Suzanne De Castle - Mary Bryson - Kathryn Alexander - Eva Ekablad, to mention just a few - of course, we've still got Peg - 

later -

phillip

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