The Enduring Controversies of the N-Word
Hearing the N-word uttered in popular media is rather familiar in the United States. A version of the word is
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Music
On Hip Hop and Growing Up in Philadelphia: An Interview with MK Asante
This month I interviewed MK Asante. Asante is a best-selling author, award-winning filmmaker, recording artist, and professor. He studied at the University of
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On the Spiritual Geography of Black Working-Class Washington
In 1946, University of Chicago-trained anthropologist and religionist James Sydney Slotkin conducted a course in the anthropology and sociology department
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The Life and Music of Florence Price: An Interview with Rae Linda Brown
In today’s post, Ashleigh Gordon, a world-renowned, award-winning violist and New England Conservatory alumna (Castle of Our Skins, Callithumpian Consort,
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Hip Hop, Masculinity, and “The Get Down”
Why does it seem like hip hop can handle only a handful of prominent female MCs at a time? Roxanne
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