The Lawrence Tract: racial integration in Palo Alto in the 1950s
A summary of a piece of Palo Alto history that I was previously unaware of.
Archive for Race/Ethnicity
Thoughts about three old sf stories
San Francisco’s history of racist displacement
Racial covenants
Canadian residential schools, and donation suggestions
More about Fred Hampton
The N-word incident at ACES 2019, part 2
The N-word incident at ACES 2019
Defiance
Underground’s metadiscussion of slavery narratives
I'm watching Underground season 2, episode 1, “Contraband,” and I just got to a scene in which one of the...
Nichelle Nichols on naming and being cast as Uhura
Nichelle Nichols on naming Uhura and on getting the part (transcribed by me from a making-of segment on the ST:TOS...
In defense of Marvel and diversity
This is a long impassioned post in which I try to come to the defense of Marvel comics. The TL;DR...