AFTER 1989: Race After Multiculturalism
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AFTER 1989: Race After MulticulturalismThursday, March 8, 2012, 7PM CUNY Graduate Center, The Proshansky Auditorium, 365 5th Avenue, New York, NYFree to the public VANILLA ICE,…Tumblr0 likes · 0 comments
Via @sepoy & @aaww The academics enter the 90’s nostalgia field in sh-tyle with their own tumblr http://after1989.tumblr.com/ “After 1989”-
1: What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Race?
Much of ‘90s multiculturalism was less about race than inventing polite ways to talk about racial taboos. Terms like “diversity” and “political correctness” blunted the unsavory aspects of dealing with racism, even as the right struggled to make English the national language and tamp down transgressive art, multicultural threats to the canon, and Ebonics. To kick off AFTER 1989, we invited Harold Augenbraum, Roberto Bedoya, Ego Trip Magazine, Das Racist, Thuy Linh Tu and Latoya Peterson editor of Racialicious to break down exactly what do we talk about when we talk about race? 
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Race? Monday, March 5, 2012, 7PM
powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street Brooklyn, NY
Free to the publicTHE CAN…
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*Finally* made it to the @aaww’s “After 1989” event. Chilling out, greeting pals, watching En Vogue & Vanilla Ice vids.
At #After1989, Ken of @aaww is talking about the two decades after the debut of multiculturalism.- Discussing the “opening salvos of the canon wars” - what is literature, whose voice deserves to be heard? - Ken @aaww
- There needs to be a convo on language and validity (i.e. “english only”, the idea of ebonics vs. AAVE) - Ken, @AAWW
- Harold A: You could say in 1995 that you had read all the Asian American literary books. There’s no way you could say that now. #After1989
- Harold A wonders if nonwhite writers will be facing this same issue in 10 years, considering the lit landscape changing so fast. #After1989
- “Where do the politics of disbelonging get played out?” Dayum…that feels like a blog series Roberto! #After1989
- @egotripland says it was not fun to be brown in publishing because it was hard to get credit for what you were doing. (Still!) #After1989
egotripland.com “ After 1989: Images From Our Racist Show-And-Tell with Das Racist.Last night the ego trip People descended on the powerHouse Arena in DUMBO, Brooklyn as part of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s Aft…
Are all the Asian Americans Iknow here listening to Das Racist going thru slideshow of images @Aaww Race after 1989 event? Yes.
The guys from Ego Trip mag and Das Racist at the @AAWW @ Powerhouse Arena http://instagr.am/p/Hz-pLFroUx/
Thanks to @dasracist & ego trip guys for entertaining me at the @aaww panel last night funny commentary on racist ads but SERIOUSLY. WTF.- Latoya Peterson from Racialicious telling it like it is at the @AAWW @ Powerhouse Arena http://instagr.am/p/Hz-_pHLoU3/
Shifting the race convo from the personal to the structural @aaww #after1989- @LatoyaPeterson "We don’t need critical mass to affect change.”
- @LatoyaPeterson response to talking to whites saying “fragmentation”: “We don’t 101 anymore. Go somewhere else.”
- @LatoyaPeterson “What we need to accept in social justice=we’re doing different things but we’re going for same goal.”
- @LatoyaPeterson @racialicious Preach it, sister! You’re killin’ it at the @AAWW. Highlight of the evening.
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2: White Noise
Titled after Don DeLillo’s White Noise, in which identity politics reaches its reductio ad absurdum in a Hitler Studies department, our second AFTER 1989 installment explores the curious phenomenon of white ethnic identity in the 1990s. Think back to a time when Bill Clinton was called the “first African American President,” when Samuel Huntington claimed we were in a “Clash of Civilizations,” when the militia movement erupted in the Waco shootout and the Oklahoma City bombings. We’ve asked Dan Charnas, Negin Farsad, Neela Vaswani, Reihan Salam, Christian Lander, and David Roediger to join in on the fun. - White Noise
Thursday, March 8, 2012, 7PM
CUNY Graduate Center, The Proshansky Auditorium, 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY 
My NYC peoples, come see me talk about white people this Thursday at the CUNY Grad Center http://after1989.tumblr.com/
Intro and welcoming from @aaww - the program unfolds to a poster you can use to fill your white space #zing! #After1989
@aaww Woah woah woah … whiteness in the ‘90s?! I resemble that … I appeared in Sassy Magazine in the 90s! Wait – was I their token AZN?
“Whiteness is flimsy.” V good–too short!–talk by @dancharnas on race and hip hop. @aaww’s #after1989 series.- Ok, @neginfarsad is new to me, and she’s all kindsa funny. #ff on Thurs. /@aaww #after1989
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3: Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Two decades ago, Rodney King famously asked, “Why can’t we all just get along?” The question might as well have served as the defining question of the multicultural moment, in which the US attempted to dream about what a pluralistic society would look like—from GOP Family Values to the black middle-class aplomb of Family Matters, whether in elite college admissions or Star Trek: The Next Generation. Kazembe Balagun, Hiram Perez, Salamishah Tillet, Hua Hsu, Jay Smooth, Jeff Chang, and Elizabeth Mendez Berry attempt to answer the decades-old question, “Why can’t we all just get along?”. - Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Friday, March 16, 2012, 7PM
Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, 80 Hanson Place, Brooklyn, NYI…
- CAN’T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?
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Man it’s a packed house 4 hip hop intelligentsia RT @zentronix: The 90s: MOCADA. 80 Hanson Place. Spread love it’s the Brooklyn way. @AAWW
Awesome panel tonight @aaww @MoCADA_Brooklyn! This was the view from the back – packed house! http://pic.twitter.com/sEG8QzcQ
The “Can’t We All Just Get Along” panel discussion is at capacity, BUT if you came out and couldn’t make it in,… http://fb.me/1kxA1dOu4
The 90s: A time of love and loss …and we’re just talking about the interns. MOCADA. 80 Hanson Place. We’ll be in Brooklyn baby. @AAWW- Another illustration of last week’s “Can’t We All Just Get Along?” panel discussion via Connie Sun: “Let’s talk… http://fb.me/1szsXlFpu
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"The Box That Rocks” at @MoCADA_Brooklyn is brilliant, and so was “Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?” panel tonight: http://after1989.tumblr.com/-
4: Are Asians Black?
We all think we know the answer to this question—Asians are not black, right? But in the nineteenth century, one California court actually determined that Chinese Americans were black—since they were not, after all, white. This panel—titled after Janine Young Kim’s seminal essay—discusses how Asians and Blacks have been positioned as not just different, but set against each other, whether in the L.A. Riots or college admissions. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the LA Riots/LA Uprising/Sa-i-gu, but what’s often unremarked upon is how quickly a Black-White conflict transformed into a multiracial one, enfolding Latino residents and Korean shop owners. Eddie Huang, Paul Beatty, Kai Ma, Wesley Yang, Nicholas Lemann, and Lisa Arrastia share their thoughts. 
Are Asians Black? Wednesday, March 21, 2012, 7PM
Museum of the Chinese in Americas, 215 Centre Street, New York, NY
$5 Admissi…
@aaww ’s great 90s series continues tmrrw (wed. at 7pm) @mocamuseum w/ “Are Asians Black?” re: black/asian relations.. http://after1989.tumblr.com/
@chen_ken hosting @aaww #after1989 talk. He gets funnier with each event I attend. http://instagr.am/p/IgAkiLqf4G/
leave de brames to WE @alexohsnaps @starkskm at @aaww lecture #after1989 / “are asians black” waitin on @MrEddieHuang to talk hood chinese
@jeaniejellie @starkskm @aaww @MrEddieHuang we gonna get baos after this #after1989
Fresh Off the Boat: In the Hood like Chinese Wings…I gave this speech at AAWW’s “Are Asians Black?” Event at the Museum of Chinese in the Americas My Aunts owned Chinese take-out spots and…Blogspot0 likes · 0 comments
good times @AAWW’s #after1989 panel at MOCA: chef Eddie Huang bounding onstage to Jadakiss: “I’m in the hood like Chinese wings” @ssekaran
@MrEddieHuang I was at the @aaww event last night & I was wondering if you could run by me how the 1% is related to chinese take-out joints?
@aaww @kai_ma Riots? 1992 in LA I’ve always thought of it as a rebellion sparked by racist police action and deprivation beyond Rodney King
Surreal moment: watching @AAWW #after1989 panel talk “Are Asians Black?”@mocamuseum while folks marched by shouting #justice4trayvon
Eddie Huang, Wesley Yang, and others ponder the question: 'Are Asians black?’ | Capital New YorkIt seemed less strange to ask Tuesday night, when, sitting in the packed, white-walled Bloomberg Gallery at the Museum of Chinese in Amer…Capitalnewyork0 likes · 0 comments
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5: I LOVE THE 90S
DJ hit replay! Or shall we manually rewind this nostalgic cassette tape with a discerning finger to your favorite awkward 1990s multiculti blunders? The ’90s gave us “Sister Souljah moments,” the OJ Simpson hearings, the rise of xenophobic legislation (Prop 187 and 209) and homophobic punditry on national television (Jerry Falwell vs the Teletubbies). Sophia Chang, Carolina González, Jack Tchen, dream hampton, Vijay Prashad, and Rinku Sen take us down memory lane. 
I LOVE THE 90S Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 7PM
Brecht Forum, 451 West Street, New York, NY
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Sophie Chang just showed us a cassette! Yeah #culturalartifact. Learning about black-Korean relations in 90s. #after1989- multiculturalism didn’t work, wu-tang did; lessons from @aaww’s #after1989 finale, w Sophia Chang @dreamhampton @vijayprashad @rinkusen
“if u ever do that again, we’ll fold u up like a wallet!” raekwon, to a kung fu mocking ed lover -soph chang on the wu 90s @aaww #after1989- Sometimes multiculti centers/heritage holidays can energize and/or sap movement efforts. #after1989.
Great to hear @dreamhampton tonight talk about gender justice @aaww #after1989 event @brechtforum
@aaww “i learned about oral sex from Too $hort when I was 9” lol #raceafter1989- totally absorbing: dream hampton talking abt the Source office right after Dre/Dee Barnes (…+ tim dog reference) @aaww #after1989
dream hampton talking about 1980s Detroit as a post-colonial nation. @aaww #after1989 http://pic.twitter.com/K7dKUXOn- @aaww “i was in bed stuy when it was the hood. There was no white people. There was no bed stuy HEIGHTS.” Lol #raceafter1989
- “the demise of multiculturalism” - vijay prashad’s talk is as hilarious as it is wickedly smart @aaww #after1989
- @aaww “the best thing about Obama’s presidency is white supremacists vomiting on themselves every time they see him on tv” vijay prishad
Troy Davis A Lynching (1:51) by Mumia Abu-Jamal | Prison RadioWritten for Dream Hampton. Played at AFTER 1989: Race After Multiculturalism, March 27th The Bretch Forum, and produced by the Asian Amer…Prisonradio0 likes · 0 comments
- surprise guest for @aaww #after1989 — mumia abu-jamal !
- Powerful finale to @aaww #after1989 series: audio of Mumia Abu-Jamal talking about Troy Davis.
@aaww incredible series after 1989! Really appreciate the much needed discussions.
@vijayprashad won the prize for being funny at #after1989 event. @CarolinaCaoNY @dreamhampton @aaww
@ARC_RinkuSen @vijayprashad @CarolinaCaoNY @dreamhampton @aaww and the prize for being angry. An effective combination.- Head buzzing from sharpness & empathy last night from @ARC_RinkuSen @dreamhampton & entire line-up at #after1989 from @aaww @BrechtForum
Sad that #after1989 is over. But happy that I discovered @aaww! An amazing organization.- @ImChal @chen_ken @aaww should be mandatory for all…somehow. Didn’t think that one through.
- This program would not have been possible without the generous support of the New York Council for the Humanities.
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Much of ‘90s multiculturalism was less about race than inventing polite ways to talk about racial taboos. Terms like “diversity” and “political correctness” blunted the unsavory aspects of dealing with racism, even as the right struggled to make English the national language and tamp down transgressive art, multicultural threats to the canon, and Ebonics. To kick off AFTER 1989, Ego Trip Magazine, the folks who gave us 
DJ hit replay! Or shall we manually rewind this nostalgic cassette tape with a discerning finger to your favorite awkward 1990s multiculti blunders? The ‘90s gave us