13 July 2010

Reading

Reading 'Race definition run amuck: slaying the dragon of Eskimo status before the Supreme Court of Canada, 1939' by Constance Backhouse in Diane Kirkby & Catharine Coleborne (eds), Law, History andColonialism (Manchester University Press, 2010) 65-77; With Stendhal (Black Inc, 2001) by Simon Leys; Open Constitutional Courts (Federation Press, 2010) by Patrick Keyzer, The Poor Relation: A History of Social Sciences in Australiaa (Melbourne University Press, 2001) by Stuart Macintyre; and 'Interviewing Working-Class Gay Men Over the Internet' by George Appleby in (2001) 12(3) Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services  133-151.

The Leys, like his other writing, is superb. The interview extracts in Appleby are deeply poignant.