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电脑要卖掉了，还真有点不舍得。我用这台电脑记录了从一开始刚来到美国的不熟悉，到现在慢慢熟悉这里又要换另一个大陆发现更多。

一番奔波之后终于把签证弄完了。但是丹麦的签证还得要到土耳其弄－没有时间再去纽约弄了。想到上年这个时候在纽约好像是上个世纪的事。脑子里想的只有一个人和种种对回家虚幻的期待。后来夏天莫名地就过完了，没有想象中的快乐。很开心遇到那个法国女生，虽然联系方式丢了。回美国之后好几次我在facebook上尝试找她，不同方式拼写的她的名字－还是没有找到。没有联系方式也比较好吧，记得的影相是更美好的。她说 电脑太重了，我旅行时不带电脑的。这么说我过了一年还是决定把电脑卖掉。我还会时不时想起她－刚从泰国回来的小麦肤色，高高的鼻梁和扑闪的睫毛。她说i don't like cheese, because you are going to kiss a boy. 她问我的问题，还有种种。没有必要stereotype高卢人，但是在我心里她的完美和不完美都是近乎完美的。

P9 

most pesticides were found toxic to humans in the long run, thus they were banned in domestic use. However remaining pestcide products were still being exported abroad. This relates to one point that Pellow addressed. That the consequences of toxic products will be distributed to the original producer anyway, even though the producted is exported and being used in a geographically remote area. The cylcling of the environment would still bring back the consequences.

今天晚上的天是一轮圆月。

下午去了跑步

收到了郭静的信。

将钥匙扔过头顶的树枝，再捡起来，再扔过去

隔了一个大洋此时此刻却有你们的气味。多久了－九月，十月，十一月，十二月，一月，二月，三月，七个月时间我和你们每时每分并不是在同样的太阳下。当你们有阳光时，我在月亮下；当我在阳光下回忆你们的味道时，你们在月亮下。千灯湖夏日的月亮，珠海我未曾去过的小学校的月亮。

但是气味跨过了时间

摄影课老师那一张1975年他还是学生的时候拍的胶片给我们做演示。一个女人抱着猫在窗台上。“她的妈妈是日本人，爸爸是泰裔美国人。我和她是一年前在日本交流认识的，当时突然在colorado springs downtown撞见，我请她做模特。当时七月科罗拉多的阳光给她的皮肤晒得很美的古铜色。”

1975年科罗拉多的下午几乎就在眼前还似昨天。

Happy April foollllls =)) had a great weekend in Lawrence U

reading summary:

1. biological aspects of race by Ed Hagen

Two hundred years ago scientists began to classify people by physical appearances. These statements were used to for racist doctrines. Thus as a scientist Ed Hagen provided 10 points on UNESCO's statement of race. 

These ten bullet points, in general, exclude race as a influential attribute to culture, personal potential, etc.

2. Racial categories as cultural constructs masquerading biology Jonathan Marks

Race is inherited, but is not a biological fashion.

The scientific method started with 卡尔·林尼厄斯 Carl Linnaeus. He established a system that implied for further breakdown. However the breakdown stopped for humans because the scholars cannot convince each other about our species.

Marks provided three reasons that there isn't considerably homogenity within each race. (as highlighted)

his conclusion is basically "trying to classify humans by race is not supported biologically"

3. Jewish Hoop Dreams

how 20~30s Jewish basketball players transformed the game

I agree with Pellow that transnational environmental organizations should interfere with each state, since the state is not purely making decisions based on welfare of the people. "That is, it is conceptually a mistake to even separate the state from capital because : 1) so many powerful political actors are also economic actors who own stock and interest in corporations and have personal stakes in corporate profits 2) states make economic decisions every day, and corporations make political decisions routinely' and , most important, 3) states increasingly mimic corporate behavior and embrace ideologies of privatization. p 65 Pellow 

however, I disagree with Pellow on the fact that "Modernity is a project is deeply racist, classist, and patriarchal and quite destructive ecologically, and this is by design." I find this extremely arbiturary and misleading. Although it is true that minorities and people of lower class are more exposed to environmental injustice, Pellow's statement put it in a way that can be read as all of the environmental justice is directed towards the victims solely because their races and classes. Rhodes however, provides a more justifiable argument on why minorities and people of lower class are more exposed to environmental injustice.

1. In order to understand environmental injustice it is necessary to understand Romanticism, the early Environmental movements and Conservation movements. Romanticism started as a response to Industrilization during the 19th century. It has aspects in art, literature, and society. Some people moved to the woods to avoid industrilization. If we look at these people, they are mostly white, for example Romanticism writer Henry David Thoreau moved to the lake Walden, and  pioneer of the preservationists John Muir, who founded the Sierra Club, which is considered as a mainstream environmental organization today, at the same time being accused for not having enough minority employees. Also at that time there weren't that many immigrants from Mexico or Asia yet. These reasons contributed to the fact that up to nowadays, mainstream players in environmental activisms are still dominantly white. Thus minorities did not have enough presence in mainstream environmental organizations. But this does not equal to environmental injustice is directed towards minoritie, it's more of historic reasons.

Rhodes also explained why minorities are more exposed to environmental injustice in social and economical aspects. He argued that minorities stayed in certain neighbourhoods because cheaper costs. Toxic wastes were being dumped in these areas because it is cheaper to dump in these areas than better neighbourhoods, which are usually dominated by people of higher class and predominantly white.Thus environmental injustice is not directed towards minorities because of their race or class, but because the corporates followed the market economy rules.