tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73851132011-04-21T14:50:35.611-07:00orchid loverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03035984927971665712noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385113.post-1150421749564009772006-06-15T18:30:00.000-07:002006-06-15T18:35:49.586-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1440/452/1600/chiasso%20bookshelf.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1440/452/200/chiasso%20bookshelf.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1440/452/1600/chiasso%20bookshelf%202.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1440/452/200/chiasso%20bookshelf%202.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />I saw this new product at chiasso. Very cool. Their desciption:<br /><div class="itemdesc" style="font-family:arial;"> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Amazing disappearing shelf turns ordinary books into an ingenious, modern illusion. Simply set a large hardcover into the shelf then add a stack of books. The bottom book should be the largest in the stack. Two small, hidden rivets hold the hardcover book in place, so the bottom book becomes the shelf. Hang a few of these modern metal bookshelves to create a cool, floating library. Powdercoated steel. Installs easily with two screws. Holds up to 15 lbs. </span> </p> </div> <div class="itemrange" style="font-family:arial;"> <span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.chiasso.com/store/Item.aspx?DepartmentId=35&amp;ItemId=50638"><b>price: $15</b> (each)</a></span> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7385113-115042174956400977?l=orchidlover.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>orchid loverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03035984927971665712noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385113.post-1149959866916364632006-06-10T09:18:00.000-07:002006-06-10T10:27:36.920-07:00We live in a house of books. Sometimes I think we should just sit on them, allow the never-ending library to stabilize our furniture.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1440/452/1600/balechair.0.jpg"> </a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1440/452/1600/balechair.2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1440/452/200/balechair.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1440/452/1600/todd%20oldham.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1440/452/400/todd%20oldham.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1440/452/1600/Book%20chair.0.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1440/452/200/Book%20chair.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1440/452/1600/modular%20open%20base%20seating%20westelm.0.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1440/452/200/modular%20open%20base%20seating%20westelm.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1440/452/1600/modular%20open%20base%20seating%20westelm.0.jpg"></a> <div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1440/452/1600/modular%20open%20base%20seating%20westelm.jpg"> </a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7385113-114995986691636463?l=orchidlover.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>orchid loverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03035984927971665712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385113.post-1093993594228591852004-08-31T19:06:00.000-07:002004-08-31T19:59:17.486-07:00I have been reading with interest recent articles on the problematic category "African American". <br /> <br /><p>I agree that we need to acknowledge the diversity of those of African descent residing in the United States. But I also think it would be useful to explore the crisis of the "African" identification mark in Africa itself, particularly in countries with large settler populations such as Kenya, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. <br /> <br />In such contexts, the term "Africa-Born" is sometimes used to categorize those who have made Africa their home despite their racial heritage. It is clearly a controversial agenda, witness Idi Amin's deportation of Indian nationals or Zimbabwe's Mugabe crusade to rid his country of white farmers. <br /></p> <img src="http://www.hifa.co.zw/Hifa/images/BA.jpg" /> <br /><font><font><font><span style="font-style: italic;">An excellent dramatization of this current identity question in Africa is the Zambian theatre group </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.hifa.co.zw/%20Hifa/bornafrican.html">Born African</a> - <span style="font-style: italic;">a three-man show incorporating the experiences of black, white and mixed Africans.</span> <br /> <br /><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> 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The New York Times article this Sunday, </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/29/national/29african.html">"African-American" becomes a term for debate</a>, --apparently precipitated by the political aspirations of <span style="font-size:100%;">Barack Obama</span>, an "African-American?" of Kenyan descent-- misses this key point: <br /> <br 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style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >This month, the debate spilled into public view when Alan Keyes, the black Republican challenger for the Senate seat in Illinois, questioned whether Mr. Obama, the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention, should claim an African-American 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style="font-family: arial;">"My ancestors toiled in slavery in this country," Mr. Keyes said. "My consciousness, who I am as a person, has been shaped by my struggle, deeply emotional and deeply painful, with the reality of that 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(Mr. Obama and Mr. Powell often use that term when describing themselves.) Yet some immigrants and their children prefer to be called African or Nigerian-American or Jamaican-American, depending on their countries of origin. 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It seems that only recently a wider spectrum of Americans are noticing the problematics of getting ethnic/race-based funding to the "real Blacks." <br /> <br /></span><font> </span><font>The Barack Obama piece in the Times </span><font>was preceded by an earlier piece on June 24 by Sara Rimer and Karen W. Arenson, entitled, "Top Colleges Take More Blacks, but Which Ones?" A friend forwarded me the article with the note, "uh-oh, they're on to us": <br /> <br /> <br /></span><span style=";font-family:Helvetica;font-size:10;" ></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >At the most recent reunion of Harvard University's black alumni, there was lots of pleased talk about the increase in the number of black students at Harvard. <br /> <br />But the celebratory mood was broken in one forum, when some speakers brought up the thorny issue of exactly who those black students were. <br /> <br />While about 8 percent, or about 530, of Harvard's undergraduates were black, Lani Guinier, a Harvard law professor, and Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chairman of Harvard's African and African-American studies department, pointed out that the majority of them -- perhaps as many as two-thirds -- were West Indian and African immigrants or their children, or to a lesser extent, children of biracial couples.</span> <br /> <br /> <br />Much of the article drew from a recent <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/%7Ejpia/pdf2002/Vol13_Spring02_3.pdf">undergraduate thesis</a> by Aisha Hayne on the breakdown of Harvard's Black community. Of course, none of us with African roots who had struggled to make sense of the college social scene in recent years was surprised. I can remember like yesterday the painful first Black Students Association meeting of my college career where everyone went around to introduce themselves. Who was truly Black, or what African-American studies Professor Skip Gates (note the white wife) has affectionately termed the "black indigenous middle-class "? <br /> <br />The first New York Times article left me feeling rather uncomfortable. <a href="http://www.koranteng.blogspot.com/">Koranteng</a> and I had a heated debate, his take was don't let the politics of this get to you. I said, watch out, this means that you will have requests for affirmative action-keyed information including more details for black ancestery. Indeed, the Harvard alumni magazine followup article to the NY Times piece quoted Haynie: <br /> <br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >"Harvard could do a better job of recognizing the differences between black students. The tendency is to see it as 'a black face is a black face'" says Haynie. "On the admissions form, you could put down where your parents and grandparents were born. If you have two black applicants, one from the American South, the other from the Caribbeaan, the black American may have come a lot further than the Caribbean student."</span> <br /> <br />Somehow I doubt this will happen at Harvard where Affirmative-Action is very close to getting the boot [Note President Larry Summers <a href="http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/daily/2004/06/10-summers_comm.html">recent speech</a> on more financial aid to increase <font>economic diversity]. <br /> <br />And don't think I'm not aware what a scam much of this affirmative action money is. My favorite is the Ford Foundation Fellowships for Minorities recently re-christened </span><a href="http://www7.nationalacademies.org/FELLOWSHIPS/fordpredoc.html">"Diversity Fellowships"</a>. Up until this year a friend who is a first generation college student of Cuban-Dominican ancestery was ineligible (only Puerto-Ricans, African-Americans, Native Americans and native Hawaiians). Meanwhile another friend with a prominent Haitian doctor for a father was cruising on multiple minority fellowships including a Ford. <br /> <br />I was discussing the ironies of the Ford Foundation criteria last week with a few friends, when one woman- of Jewish descent with parents born in Southern Africa pointed out that she was African-American strictly speaking. Everyone laughed and said of course she wasn't. <br /> <br />Yet her situation speaks to an even more hidden pattern of migration- white Africans. It seems to me that all of these roundabout ways to get away from racial terms- African American instead of Black, Coloured, Negro only returns us to the crux of the matter... Where does race end and African begin? <br /> <br /> <br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span> <br /><span style=";font-family:Helvetica;font-size:10;" > <!--[endif]--></span> <br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7385113-109399359422859185?l=orchidlover.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>orchid loverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03035984927971665712noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385113.post-1087841092538838202004-06-21T14:02:00.000-07:002006-04-25T17:37:47.170-07:00I really like Henry Bonsu's recent article <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4947448-103677,00.html">"A Tale of Two Countries"</a> for the guardian.<br /><br />He notes the irony of the Ghanaian government's promotion of Ghana as an ultimate tourist destination when the aspirations of many inside are to someday get outside.<br /><br />It is funny how we all can project our fantasies onto the otherside. Ghana as all embracing motherland, good food, lovely weather, a locus of Black empowerment. UK/US as land of opportunity, money, money, money, money, running water, working bureaucracy, equality.<br /><br />You don't know how to appreciate what you've got until you don't have it.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7385113-108784109253883820?l=orchidlover.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>orchid loverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03035984927971665712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385113.post-1087841678587752212003-12-08T22:46:00.000-08:002004-06-21T11:14:38.586-07:00How Babies Alter Careers for Academics <br /> <br /> <br />Having children often bumps women off the tenure track, a new study shows <br />http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i15/15a00101.htm <br /> _______________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />As I finish graduate school, I begin to feel like I can see a light at the end of a tunnel...but then I stop and think, what really lies ahead? Last week I attended a Faculty-Student dinner. My half of the table got into a heated debate concerning children and whether or not we felt we even had the choice to have them. <br /> <br />Since I was eight, I knew that I wanted to get a PhD as soon as I could in as little time possible. My mother returned to graduate school after having three children, when I was around four or five. While most of the other mothers in the neighborhood found outlets in their churches, book clubs, and aerobics classes-- my mom was lugging around huge sociology textbooks and going overseas to do fieldwork. At our house everyone knew all about comprehensive exams, statistics classes, random sampling. <br /> <br />My mother invested so much time and love into our upbringing, sometimes it is almost unbearable to consider. I'm now the same age she was when she had me. I wonder what I really want and what I'm really working towards. <br /> <br />This part of the recent online chat session sponsored by the chronicle of higher education makes me pause: <br /> <br />"When I returned to work, I found that almost half of my salary went to child care and that when all my expences were accounted for, about $5,000 per year was all I netted. My husband has joked that he is subsidizing my academic pursuits because, on a financial level, the only real gain I have received is a pension plan and not much more.--Xenia Morin" <br /> <br />Some say we all need wives, domestic help, but is that really the answer? To sustain a second-class of women, who most likely have their own children back in Jamaica or the Philippines? A friend suggested to me several weeks ago that perhaps one ought to have live in nannies and allow them to raise their children alongside one's own. I asked her how committed she is to communal living and pointed out some of what I thought were the more obvious flaws with her schemes. I told her how in South Africa, the latest trend is for wealthy [white] families to sponsor/foster the children of their domestic servants, sometimes having them live in the main house and attend school with their children. I could see we were coming to the question from different angles and didn't pursue the topic. The more I think about it however, the more I may need to. <br /> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7385113-108784167858775221?l=orchidlover.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>orchid loverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03035984927971665712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385113.post-1087841562659800202003-10-01T18:05:00.000-07:002004-06-21T11:52:41.623-07:00<img src="http://images.snapfish.com/33%3A%3A%3A72%3B23232%7Ffp45%3Dot%3E232%3C%3D9%3A%3A%3D%3A8%3C%3DXROQDF%3E2323565429%3A35ot1lsi"> <br /> <br />When I left 10 months of research in tropical Ghana and found myself at the archives of the Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, the dreariness of London overwhelmed me. It was May; I thought by then it would be safe to come back up North. But the icy rain was relentless and I was forced to buy a sack of wool sweaters, trousers, and boots at a consignment shop. <br /> <br />One of the benefits of affiliation with the Botanical Archives as a research scholar is access to the entire grounds of the Royal Gardens. Given the excuse for spring that met me, I found myself wandering in the Palm House, looking at the orchids nestled among the greenhoused trees. One day on a whim, I picked up three books at the gift shop on my way out: two on cooking with flowers and an introduction to orchid growing. <br /> <br />Perhaps it was something about the British Isles--the rain, the fog, the general greyness, the hours on the subway. Perhaps it was the hours spent looking through herbarium correspondence-- the exchanges of seeds, plants, and identifications. The Victorian desire to contain the exotic tropics in pots and greenhouses, archives and museums. <br /> <br />Perhaps it was my own romanticization of the warm, breezy climate I had so recently left [afterall, hadn't it been the harmattan, the red dust sweeping down from the Sahara?] <br /> <br />Somehow, sometime around the middle of May 2003, I became an OrchidLover. <br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7385113-108784156265980020?l=orchidlover.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>orchid loverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03035984927971665712noreply@blogger.com0