Since there are a lot of Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due fans on the site, I thought you might be interested in hearing Due's manager is in the process of pitching their joint effort Danger Word, the short story collaboration that was part of Dark Dreams as a series for TV. has anybody read this? I'm about to take a 14 hour plane ride. should i take this? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0758207530/qid=1122711100/sr=8 -3/ref=pd_bbs_sbs_3/104-9837244-9551917?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
Tracey -----Original Message----- From: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 8:20 PM To: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Lion's Blood again (what should barnes do?) On Jun 26, 2005, at 10:29 AM, Carole McDonnell wrote: > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > But I don't think we'd have the "United States" as we know them > now. > > We'd have a literal confederacy...twenty or thirty states that are > more > > or less countries unto themselves. Meaning that strong federal > > countries (countries with a centralized national government) would > be > > able to trump them either in raw manpower or in bureaucracy. If > > England decided to go to war for example, they'd only need to go > > through the Parliament. If this new "US" wanted to go to war, > they'd > > have to go to EACH STATE SEPARATELY to get their approval. And > even > > THEN some states might not want to cough up the loot needed to deal > > with the threat. > > > The southern states might be a confederacy but wouldn't the northern > states still be the "united states" The northern states wanted > the "union" didn't they? They did, but in the process of passing the Corwin Amendment, they'd really end up hijacking the union--becoming more of a confederacy in order to keep the south from leaving--in order to save it. > > > > > > Now SA didn't exist during this time period. > > True. But if all else remained the same, Europe would still be > sending folks to Africa and to Australia. And some countries such as > SA would probably exist. Or maybe not. Who knows if the US's slavery > position helped make those imperialist European-oppressed African > countries more -- or LESS-- prone to racist imperialism. Maybe US > slavery encouraged the Afrikaans, etc. But maybe the Civil Rights > movement a century later also helped the europeans leave Africa. > > Who knows? But i do like the idea of the US being more multicultural > and having more multicultural power with a culture more influenced by > Native Americans, Africans, and "good" Europeans. Yep, am a wuss. The > last holdout of the rainbow coalition. I do too...but I am not sure when the particular multicultural reality that we are envisioning truly takes hold to build a nation. lks Dr. Lester K. Spence Assistant Professor, Political Science and African Afro-American Studies Washington University Kellogg Scholar in Health Disparities 2004-2006 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.2/29 - Release Date: 6/27/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.7/60 - Release Date: 7/28/2005 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12h48c9bf/M=362335.6886444.7839734.2575449/D=groups/S=1705020227:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1122718849/A=2894362/R=0/SIG=138c78jl6/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/arts_culture/?source=YAHOO&cmpgn=GRP&RTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/";>What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater?Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Community email addresses: Post message: SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe Digest Mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SciFiNoir_Lit/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
