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DESCRIPTION:-  Calendar Items at Berkeley Unitarian Fellowship   -- at (1924) Cedar St. 
 & Bonita Ave., in Berkeley    First of all want  we, the Social Justice 
 Committee cordially  invite you to four fascinating & timely talks Tuesday 
 nights followed by discussion at the Berkeley Unitarian Universalist 
 Fellowship, *Education Bldg.*, upstairs, Fireside Room -- on 1606 Bonita 
 Ave. (at Cedar St.) *Education Bldg.* entrance.  Talk & Discusssion:  RACE, 
 RACIALIZATION & COLONIALISM -- with author, university lecturer and 
 progressive activist STEVE MARTINOT     FOUR TUESDAY EVENINGS, 7-9PM, 
 STARTING SEPTEMBER 13.   -- CONTINUING ON SEPT. 20, 27, AND LAST CLASS IS 
 TUESDAY OCT. 4.    NOW MORE THAN EVER WITH THE OBVIOUS LACK OF CARING FOR 
 ALL OUR CITIZENS  with the Federal govt. agencies allowing NEW ORLEANS AND 
 GULFCOAST TO DROWN, let us take this opportunity to learn on a deeper level 
 the truth about the reality of this moment in history and address the 
 structures of racialization that have real historical origins, that 
 underlie our class and political structures.  Race is a social structure 
 and not something inherent in persons, neither biologically nor 
 geoculturally. The history of the invention of  "Race" needs to be 
 understood, both in the English colonies that became the U.S, where the 
 modern concept of race originated, and in the Spanish colonies where a 
 different concept of race emerged.    Explore with Steve the structures of 
 racializationand how they function at the core of our society.    Topics to 
 be discussed:  Tues. Sept. 13,7-9pm   The colonial history that gave rise 
 to a specific systemand class relations from plantation society.  It is 
 important to understand that from the end of the 17th century on, the 
 working class in the mid-Atlantic colonies was black.   Tues. Sept. 20, 
 7-9pm    The structures of racialization that emerged with the industrial 
 revolution until the Civil War and the labor history that followed (the 
 most violent of all industrial nations).  Tues. Sept. 27, 7-9 pm   The 
 hierarchy, blindness and alienation that racialization depends on; 
 understanding prejudice not as a psychological mind-set but asystem of 
 social relations destructive of the individuality of the prejudiced.  Tues. 
 Oct. 4, 7-9pm   How the U.S. war machine's obsession with violence in the 
 name of "democracy" (from Manifest Destiny, the A-Bomb, Vietnam, covert 
 operations to Fallujah) is conditioned by white supremacy and how the forms 
 of populism peculiar to the U.S. are further reflections of these same 
 conditions.    Steve Martinot has been a machinist, a truckdriver, union & 
 community organizer & human rights activist.  He is a lecturer at SF State 
 University and a writer on philosphy and history.  His last book is "THE 
 RULES OF RACIALIZATION" published by Temple University Press.   Call 
 510-845-8634 for further information or 510-528-5403 to register.  
 Inexpensive sliding scale donation requested.  No one turned away.  All 
 welcome.  Sponsored by the Berkeley Fellowship Social Justice Committee.    
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SUMMARY:Lecture series: RACE, RACIALIZATION & COLONIALISM -- with STEVE MARTINOT
LOCATION:Berkeley Unitarian Fellowship  -- at Cedar St. & Bonita Ave., in Berkeley  
 (Education Bldg, next to main hall.)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/09/12/75453.php
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