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- We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.
- Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean 'P. Diddy'…
- Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal…
- Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50…
- I suppose that I inherited the same vocabulary and world view as most black Christians do, most Christians in general, to be sure. It was…
- If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it…
- In the minds of many Americans, if you are a radical Democrat or a Socialist, you are automatically a Communist. And if you are a…
- The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history,…
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