awesome. unfortunately i don't know too much about the young lords (that will change, i read voraciously!) but i got much respect for them. i would like to read your thesis, whenever you're done (you're a junior, right?)
yes i am a junior, so it wont be done for some time. im trying to get sent to PR so i can meet up with members who mightve lived there or do a little research on the PR chapter.
cool....a friend of mine did her thesis on haitian feminism and got a mellon grant to be able to conduct her research, and i have another friend who got some type of grant (can't remember if it was mellon or not) to go to senegal so it's definitely doable.
congratulations!lessordinaryguyNovember 2 2005, 20:34:24 UTC
i don't know much about the young lords (i just keeping hearing the name and 'they were like the black panthers') which is why its even more important to do the kind of research you're proposing. the one thing which i really respect about those black/brown community organisers of the 60s and 70s is how they put intervening positively in the life of their community central to their political practice. while i can see the use of maoist/nationalist politics (especially at the time), things like feeding schemes and opening schools are miles away from what you encounter in marx, mao (or even fanon). yet they're a vital party of building politics rooted in the everyday life of the community
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