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legionseagle ([personal profile] legionseagle) wrote in [personal profile] feuervogel 2011-02-04 10:46 am (UTC)

Not disagreeing with anything you're saying

...but the difficulty with using "101" to find links is that that term is derived from a US-based system of classifying college courses. As you may be aware (from eg the post at Feministing which caused such a furore) there's some discussion about whether US-centricity is itself an issue of privilege. When you go to a "101" site you know that the issues addressed will be addressed through a US perspective predominantly if not exclusively, and it's worth looking to see what other takes there may be on the matters at issue. I've found, for example, [personal profile] whatistigerbalm's takes on ethnic and racial conflict in the Balkans a very valuable alternative perspective on social justice issues.

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