Category Archives: Islam

Whiteness, Property, and Alien Difference

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Tim McGee

Vacationing with a one year doesn’t give you much time for reading but there is still a little. I read a few pages of Alys Eve Weinbaum’s Wayward Reproductions and more in Adulthood Rites, the 2nd novel in Octavia Butler sci-fi trilogy, … Continue reading →

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Refusing to be Outsiders: Fanon, Islam, and the (White) Christian West

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Tim McGee

What’s all this about black people and a black nationality?  I am French.  I am interested in French culture, French civilization, and the French.  We refuse to be treated as outsiders; we are well and truly part of French history … Continue reading →

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