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Aysegul Yayla
- Mar 1, 2019
- 2 min
Game review: Viticulture Essential Edition (2015)
Players: 1–6 Playing time: 45–90 min Boardgamegeek.com rating: 8.1 Designer: Morten Monrad Pedersen, Jamey Stegmaier, Alan Stone Artist: Jacqui Davis, David Montgomery, Beth Sobel Publisher: Stonemaier Games Type: Strategy Category: Economic, farming Mechanisms: Hand management, worker placement Country: Italy Theme: Farming, viticulture, wine games Do you like wine? How about growing some grapes under the Tuscan sun? Viticulture is my number one board game of all time. Maybe
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Aysegul Yayla
- Dec 3, 2012
- 5 min
Working Toward Whiteness by David Roediger
In Working toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White, Roediger builds the image of the new immigrant struggling to become white in the early twentieth century United States. This is due to the mainstream American identity’s being constructively white and the new immigrants face fitting in problems based on race and class. Problems occur because of the restrictions the state applies to preserve the population to be dominantly white. Roediger brings light to these
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Aysegul Yayla
- Dec 3, 2012
- 5 min
Yearning by bell hooks
Bell hooks’ Yearning is a call for the general public to re-conceptualize black cultural identities. She is concerned with transforming the oppressive structures present in the context of white supremacy. Her main target is media which reproduce stereotypes of blackness. She criticizes the consumption of these commodified images by public and urges her readers to join the creation of a “liberatory space to construct radical black subjectivity” (36) in order to attain awarenes
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