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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 with discussions at the Berkeley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 
 *Education Bldg.*, upstairs, Fireside Room -- on 1606 Bonita Ave. (at Cedar 
 St.) *Education Bldg.* entrance, 2nd floor.   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.   All welcome.   Sponsored by the 
 Berkeley Fellowship Social Justice Committee.     [Posted by JA.]   - \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/09/15/75673.php
SUMMARY:Lecture series: RACE, RACIALIZATION & COLONIALISM -- with author STEVE MARTINOT
LOCATION:Berkeley Unitarian Fellowship   -- at Cedar St. & Bonita Ave., in Berkeley  
  (2nd floor, Education Bldg, on Bonita, next to main hall.)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/09/15/75673.php
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