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hi!! what are some of your favorite readings, books, essays, articles, etc on sociology? i’d love to maybe see what class readings you’re doing
Hi anon!
I have a whole bunch of recommendations, no books, unfortunately. Actually, scratch that, I have one but it's actually a history book! I found it to be sociologically fascinating, though. It's The Origins of the Modern World by Robert B. Marks. It's a really interesting take on decolonizing the study of history and our understanding of how the west became the global superpower
To be honest, I don't know what book chapters I was reading for my theory class, our professor only sent us pdf scans. If you're interested in the philosophic origins of sociology, I am happy to try to hunt down the reference for you. Personally, I'm not a big philosophy fan so I can't speak to how good it was lol
Scholarly articles
Clover, Carol J. 1987. “Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film.” Representations, 20: 187-228. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2928507.
Sowles, Shaina J., Monique McLeary, Allison Optican, Elizabeth Cahn, Melissa J. Krauss, Ellen E. Fitzsimmons-Craft, Denise E. Wilfley, and Patricia A. Cavazos-Rehg. 2018. “A content analysis of an online pro-eating disorder community on Reddit.” Body Image, 24: 137-144. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2018.01.001.
Berbrier, Mitch. 1999. “Impression Management for the Thinking Racist: A Case Study of Intellectualization as Stigma Transformation in Contemporary White Supremacist Discourse.” The Sociological Quarterly, 40(3): 411-433.
Kwate, Naa Oyo A. 2008. “Fried chicken and fresh apples: Racial segregation as a fundamental cause of fast food density in black neighborhoods.” Health & Place, 14(1): 32-44. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2007.04.001. (I read this one in a class years ago and it's always stuck with me, highly recommend)
Snow, David A. and Leon Anderson. 1987. “Identity Work Among the Homeless: The Verbal Construction and Avowal of Personal Identities.” American Journal of Sociology, 92(6): 1336-1371. Doi: 10.1086/228668. (a really interesting application of identity work, which is one of my favorite sociological frameworks)
West, Candace and Don H. Zimmerman. 1987. “Doing Gender.” Gender and Society, 1(2): 125-151. doi: https://www.jstor.org/stable/189945. (a classic! essential sociological reading, you may have come across it already)
Non-scholarly articles and essays (that are all very sociological in my opinion)
Being an Honorary White Person Doesn't Make Us More Powerful
How the '5-Minute-Face' Became the $5,000 Face
Why We Should Talk About What Kyrsten Sinema Is Wearing (Tressie McMillan Cottom is a phenomenal sociologist! I recommend all her writing)
Selfies, Surgeries, And Self-Loathing: Inside the Facetune Epidemic
“ain’t i a woman?” on the irony of trans-exclusion by black and african feminists (one of my personal favorites)
Poor People Deserve To Taste Something Other Than Shame (I return to this one often)
Violent Delights (a really interesting commentary on the cultural fascination with true crime)
Podcasts
Sage Sociology
Give Theory a Chance
Maintenance Phase (not technically sociology but very sociological in my opinion)
Unfortunately, I don't really have any books to recommend but if anyone else does I'd love to get some recs too!
I also try to post a round-up of all my reads under my monthly reads tag if you're looking for more suggestions, though it seems I haven't been particularly consistent ope
Thank you for the ask, anon. It was fun going through my notes and finding all these!! Please feel free to reach out with any recommendations of your own :)
When I visited Thailand for the first time a few years before this article was published, "Darkie"-brand toothpaste was everywhere. And that example of racist branding was not unique in SE and East Asia at the time.
I was reminded of this in reading the opening of Burgers in Blackface - Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now by Naa Oyo A. Kwate
"'Slaves were auctioned off the week of February 21,
during noon. The student body bid . . . with the highest bidder getting the person for their slave on the assigned day . . .
This was the 2nd year the student council held this money raiser, which made over 1,000 dollars this year.' So read the 1978 yearbook feature describing 'Sambo Service Day' at St. John’s High School, Delphos, Ohio. Photo captions identified
images of grinning White students who had 'won' one of their peers, and others who were consigned to servitude. One of the latter group had adorned his shirt with masking tape that read, ‘Ain’t I Cute?' The story text noted that 'wearing signs is one
way masters let people know who their slave is.' Making a mockery of slavery was apparently a new annual event at the parochial school, one in which the word 'Sambo' stood for African Americans.
On the opposite end of the country, in Modesto, California, another all-White student body engaged in the same ritual. Fall at Modesto High School meant the 'traditional Slave Day.' In 1979, 'each Rally Exec was assigned to a varsity football player, and served as his slave for the day.' Where the Modesto celebration of slavery differed from that in Ohio was in an external connection to Sambo. The teens at St. John’s merely named their event 'Sambo Service Day,' but in Modesto, each 'slave' took her 'master' to breakfast at Sambo’s Restaurant, a West Coast pancake chain. Had these students deliberately chosen Sambo’s as the setting for breakfast because the name and the chain’s branding was ideally matched to an enactment of enslaved Black persons? As will be shown in the pages that follow,
Sambo’s Restaurant, which initially launched in California in 1957, was but one of several establishments where racism was integral to the dining concept."
The Wikipedia article on Sambo's yields this quote, which has a familiar ring, as it discusses why the owners of the Sambo's chain decided to revert from "The Jolly Tiger," its alternative to "Sambo's" in certain communities:
"The company cited poor financial performance of these restaurants; the company's 'constitutional, legal, and moral right to operate (those restaurants) under its corporate name'; and the assertion that Black people did not object to the name, citing studies that showed that 'three times as many blacks (sic) ate at Sambo's as at any other full service restaurant.'
Shades of the NFL team's "Native Americans totes do not find 'Redskins' offensive as a team name—look, we found a couple, and they're cool with it!"
In sum, racism and business are the most congenial of bedfellows. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
DATE CREATED: 2023-09-21
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Moomin - The Snoofer
King Felix - Just One Person
ROOi - Revelación
Paul Lavernhe - Train Station
Diplomatt - No New Friends
Kwatee - Broken Language
Mathman - Locked In, Locked On
VOLB3X - Hungry
Morillo - Before
Tom Place - Rogue Nation
Stink Floyd - Big Girls
Airal - Charon
Phatworld - Hugo
KIZZA - Rude Filth
Urbanstep - Horizon
Art Jordan - Labyrinth
Space Frogs From Saturn - One More Time
Vic Violence - Before I Lose It
LOWSH - Let Me Fall
AULDA - ode2theunknown
Aleks Zubel - Terrified
TCHiLT - Spliff Rosé
Dany BS - Believe
Sha Ru - Duga Bass
Largey - Switch It Up
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DATE CREATED: 2023-09-21
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Moomin - The Snoofer
King Felix - Just One Person
ROOi - Revelación
Paul Lavernhe - Train Station
Diplomatt - No New Friends
Kwatee - Broken Language
Mathman - Locked In, Locked On
VOLB3X - Hungry
Morillo - Before
Tom Place - Rogue Nation
Stink Floyd - Big Girls
Airal - Charon
Phatworld - Hugo
KIZZA - Rude Filth
Urbanstep - Horizon
Art Jordan - Labyrinth
Space Frogs From Saturn - One More Time
Vic Violence - Before I Lose It
LOWSH - Let Me Fall
AULDA - ode2theunknown
Aleks Zubel - Terrified
TCHiLT - Spliff Rosé
Dany BS - Believe
Sha Ru - Duga Bass
Largey - Switch It Up
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My last post was a review of a comedic look at the world of hot dogs. Today it’s a review of White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation. This book, by Naa Oyo A. Kwate is an in-depth, scholarly look at the ways race impacted the development of fast food restaurants in the United States.
Cover photo for White Burgers, Black Cash
According to the back flyleaf, this…
While discussing clone things with @daitoshi, they offhandedly mentioned the weirdness of the number of clones in a batch (and incidentally the general structure of the GAR). Apparently this was all the inspiration I needed to decide I was going to create base-4 counting system for the Kaminoans. 32 clones per batch seems pretty random, but it is just 2 x 16 (2 x 4^2), so in a base-4 system, it’s no more random than say 200 (2 x 10^2) is in base-10. Base-4 also ties in thematically with DNA irl, so that’s fun for a bunch of cloners!
I’ve put together a guide to my process and rules for the enjoyment of all. And by enjoyment, I mean frustration because this counting systems it incredibly upsetting.
We normally assume most human counting systems are base-10 due to our (standard) number of fingers. How the heck to do count to four with three fingers, then?? Well, this is how Imma say the Kaminoans count on their fingers:
Does it make sense? I guess. Does it seem probable? Not really. But the joy of conlanging and worldbuilding for aliens is you can always just be like, “Whatever, their alien brains are built differently.”
Anyways, we’re gonna want some names for these numbers, so we gotta come up with some mouth sounds to represent them.
We do not have a lot of canon (or legends) words for Kaminoan stuff, and what we do have is of course plagued by the same issue that every collection of made up words in SW suffers from: absolutely no internal consistency. Okay, well maybe there is some internal consistency, so let’s look at what we got:
PEOPLE
Taun We
Lama Su
Kina Ha
Ko Sai
Nala Se
Erla
Halle Burtoni
PLACES
Tipoca
Timira
Derem
Baran Wu
Su Des
Slici
Tal An
Glascretia
Razoral
STUFF
aiwha
nahra
AIWHA POD STORY
Protas
Melkorr
Kikla
Thalina
iiaa
oii
sso
uded
DAITOSHI
Sre Len
Taun We, Lama Su, Nala Se: these are iconic of the vibe I want the phonetic system to embody. So, what features from this data set should I keep for the phonetic inventory?
I dismiss Glascretia and Razoral outright since they have a very “fake English vibe.” Same with Protas and Melkorr, since they just seem to be plays on Proteas (Greek myth) and Melkor (Tolkien) respectively. Also, I throw Halle Burtoni right out the window because every other Kaminoan we meet sounds like their name came from the same language. What the heck happened here?? Whatever language she’s named in, it’s not the one I’m building.
Get rid of thalina, too; I don’t like the <th> just because. Additionally, I’m not sure what the <h> in nahra represents (is it silent? pronounced? part of a digraph with <r>????), so we’re gonna ignore it for now. Finally, the terminal <d> in uded doesn’t fit the vibe I want to go for. I consider keeping the terminal <s> in Su Des but eventually decide against it.
From Tal An and Erla, I decide that approximants can occur finally.
I take <c> and <k> to represent the same phoneme.
For absolutely no good reason, I have always assumed the <wh> in aiwha was inspired by Maori, so I’ll count that as one phoneme. However, I decide to have all approximants have a voiced and voiceless form. So, I end up not using the Maori rendering anyways.
Great, overall we’ve got what looks like it could be a very CV syllable structure. In order to match the vibe I’m going for, I won’t complicate that too much.
We have several C<l> consonant clusters, so we’ll say that it can occur initially. And since we said all approximants can occur finally, we’ll just say all approximants can occur in this position, too. Plus, since I’m mostly just doing this project to amuse Daitoshi, this also allows for their OC’s name to be permissible in the system.
Now, what is going on with these words from the Aiwha Pod short story?? Suddenly double letters. Okay. We’ll say <a> and <i> have long forms, and then we’ll say <u> does as well for a more balanced system. Same with <s> and then <h>, again for balance. Do these words represent diphthongs? Meh. I’ll say no, they’re bisyllabic because I want them to be.
After all that, we’re left with :
m /m/
n /n/
p /p/
b /b/
t /t/
d /d/
k/c /k/
s /s/
ss /sː/
h /h/
hh /hː/
lh /l̥/
l /l/
rh /ɻ̊/
r /ɻ/
wh /ʍ/
w /w/
i /i/
ii /iː/
u /u/
uu /uː/
e /e/
o /o/
a /ä/
aa /äː/
ai /äɪ̯/
au /äʊ̯/
(C1)(C2)V(C3)
C1 = -approximant if occuring in cluster
C2 = +voiced approximant
C3 = +nasal or +voiced approximant
Yay! Let’s work on naming some numbers now.
We’ll obviously want unique names for 0-4. Additionally, the number 9 is very significant in the GAR; squads consist of nine troopers, so every other division ends up divisible by nine. Cool, let’s give 9 a unique name and let it play a role in counting. I also give 36 and 144 unique names, thinking of things like “dozen” and “gross” and “score” in English. Aside from these, we’ll want the various powers of 4 to be something simple.
Futz around with the phonemic inventory, maybe drop it into a word generator, and here are the unique number name around which all other numbers will be based:
And there you have it! The basics, at least. I’ve worked out the names of number 0-64 with which, as long as you know the powers of four, you can work out any number you’d like up to 206 billion~!
Additionally, I decided to create a numeral system (I mean, it’s only four characters, so why the heck not?) very loosely inspired by the structure of the DNA nucelobases (adenine, guanine, thymine cytosine), so here’s that:
And here is a list of the names of all of the numbers through 64! The general rule is simply that if the smaller integer appears first, it is multiplied by the following. If the larger integer appears first, it is added to the following. Aside from a few of the earlier numbers, it’s pretty regular! 9 lends its name to its multiples, and of course 36 (and 144) have unique names, as mentioned above. After hitting 64, the numbers repeat (the same way that they do in English after 100).
*both rai hhel and kwado lho are used, though the latter is rarer
Aaaand for examples in this system, I thought I’d convert some clone designations into it :3
Rex 7567 → 1312033
each digit: lho hhel lho kwa abo hhel hhel
full number: rai hhelto lho whenau kwaiil hhelte hhel
abbreviated: tehhel tekwa abo hhelte hhel
wooooow you can immediately see why they wouldn’t go with base-4 designations haha
Fives 5555 → 1112303
each digit: lho lho lho kwa hhel abo hhel
full number: rai te lho whenau kwaiil hhelrai hhel
abbreviated: telho tekwa hhel abo hhel
maybe we will just call him “Telhon” in Kaminoan :)
I accidentally made his name start with “Kwate” which sounds enough like his nickname I suppose :)
And that’s it! If you read this far, um, thanks (unless you’re Daitoshi: curse you for inspiring me to create this). idk why you would, but anyone is welcome to use this for whatever purpose. Would love to see what you come up with if you do, though, so hmu~! ;)
Rutgers University Africana studies professor Dr. Naa Oyo Kwate, who has studied “retail redlining” — the phenomenon that mutually reinforces segregated communities and tamps down retail development in mostly black or brown communities...
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DATE CREATED: 2023-08-01
Tracklist :
No F In Irony - Real Flow
7Nicholzon - I Did One Thing Right
Bizu After Trojan - Conga
Mansa - Bendi
Paultrixx - Burn it up
Kwatee - Broken Language
The Colonel - Spendin' Cheddar
VOLB3X - Hungry
Nolephant - Don't Lie
HDrizzle - Midnight
Rawtrachs - Feel So Alive
Jakobin (UK) - one
House Anatomy - Lazers
Airal - Charon
Dissenta - Ronin (Ft. Elizrae & Drew's Theory)
Phatworld - Uncle Blessumz
KIZZA - Rude Filth
Urbanstep - Horizon
Nuevo Prohibido - Corazon
dvr - Brainwave
Space Frogs From Saturn - One More Time
Vic Violence - Before I Lose It
AULDA - ode2theunknown
Aleks Zubel - Terrified
Pavane - No Body
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DATE CREATED: 2023-08-01
Tracklist :
No F In Irony - Real Flow
7Nicholzon - I Did One Thing Right
Bizu After Trojan - Conga
Mansa - Bendi
Paultrixx - Burn it up
Kwatee - Broken Language
The Colonel - Spendin' Cheddar
VOLB3X - Hungry
Nolephant - Don't Lie
HDrizzle - Midnight
Rawtrachs - Feel So Alive
Jakobin (UK) - one
House Anatomy - Lazers
Airal - Charon
Dissenta - Ronin (Ft. Elizrae & Drew's Theory)
Phatworld - Uncle Blessumz
KIZZA - Rude Filth
Urbanstep - Horizon
Nuevo Prohibido - Corazon
dvr - Brainwave
Space Frogs From Saturn - One More Time
Vic Violence - Before I Lose It
AULDA - ode2theunknown
Aleks Zubel - Terrified
Pavane - No Body
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