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What 'Good Hair' Hath Wrought.
Slb’s analysis of the natural hair discussion being a “constantly warmed over narrative” might actually be on point. Chris Rock does a movie on black women’s hair, and suddenly we have to read about the politics of it in the New York Times: Although legions of black women in America straighten their hair (including Michelle Read More
Racial Inequality and the Rhetoric of Responsibility.
(by Jeremy R. Levine at Social Science Lite) Last Spring, Brown University economist Glenn Loury presented at Harvard sociology’s Workshop on Race and Black Youth Culture. He titled his talk “Culture, Causation and Confusion: Why Bill Cosby is Wasting His Time,” engaging with the pervasive “rhetoric of responsibility” frequently applied to blacks in the United States. As Loury Read More
There is No Binary.
As if we needed another reason to think Kai Wright is pretty much amazing. Wright talks about what Caster Semenya has lost, no matter what the outcome of her sex test is, and why the myth of sex being a binary is so very damaging: But the reality is that Semenya may be neither “boy” Read More
'The Work Goes On, The Cause Endures, The Hope Still Lives, and the Dream Shall Never Die.'
From Michael Kelley’s legendary GQ profile, “Ted Kennedy On the Rocks”: Even a partial listing of the major bills in whose passage Kennedy has played a part is impressive. Whether you admire them or not, these are the measures that transformed—mostly liberalized—America in our time: the first Immigration Reform Act; the Voting Rights Act and its extensions; Read More
Bad News Bears.
Charlie Cook, of Cook Political Report fame, is very good at what he does, and when he says that the Democrats are looking at significant losses in next year’s midterm elections, it’s worth paying attention (via the Atlantic’s politics channel): “….confirm anecdotal evidence, and our own view, that the situation this summer has slipped completely Read More
Your Monday Random-Ass Roundup: Back to Beck
Am I supposed to boycott companies who advertise on Glenn Beck’s show, or am I supposed to boycott Glenn Beck’s show? This is too hard. Who wants to have a viewing party for Beck’s return to air tonight? Anyone? Two-and-a-half million people can’t be wrong, can they? Like we always do about this time, your Read More
Roxanne Shante, PhD.
When you write a battle rap at the age of 14 that just happens to become an insta-classic and a pioneering work of female-fronted hip-hop, you can’t be expected to think of everything. And you certainly can’t be expected to make sure your royalty contract is iron-clad, when you’re barely out of the eighth grade. Read More
Mad Men Season 3, Episode 2: Love Among the Ruins.
This isn’t terribly original, but Peggy’s my favorite character. And because this episode was fairly Peggy-centric, it was my favorite installment in some time. There are several perfect Peggy moments in this episode: the sorta sad singing in the mirror, “We can do other things” and the most important, when she blurts out to that Read More