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The Lesson Presents: Emerging Black Masculinities in Hip Hop: Works Cited
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The Lesson Presents: Emerging Black Masculinities in Hip Hop. A sonic, visual, and textual mixtape exploring themes and changing dynamics of Black masculinity in rap music. Don't just listen to Hip Hop. Learn HIp Hop. Carr, Ian. Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1998. Gary, Herman. “Black Masculinity and Visual Culture”. Callaloo 18.2 (1995): 401-405. Iton, Richard. In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the. New York: Routledge, 2002.
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Mixed Dreams: February 2014
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Towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement. Bill of Rights for Mixed People. Sunday, February 16, 2014. Just as supplemental reading to go along with my previous post Who Gets to be POC? This article entitled "Coming Out As Biracial". By Stephanie Georgopulos is pretty awesome and spot on. So I come out. Again and again and again. My appearance can’t do the talking, but I sure as hell can.". Links to this post. Sunday, February 9, 2014. Who Gets to Be A POC? Shifting the Lens on Race. The other asks &...
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Mixed Dreams: Bill of Rights for Mixed People
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Towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement. Bill of Rights for Mixed People. Bill of Rights for Mixed People. By Maria P.P. Root. I have the right. Not to justify my existence in this world. Not to keep the races separate within me. Not to be responsible for people's discomfort with my physical ambiguity. Not to justify my ethnic legitimacy. To identify myself differently than strangers expect me to identify. To identity myself differently than how my parents identity me. They are people who identifie...
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Mixed Dreams: The Hypervisible Man: Obama as the First Black, Mixed-Race, Asian American and now Gay President
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Towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement. Bill of Rights for Mixed People. Thursday, May 24, 2012. The Hypervisible Man: Obama as the First Black, Mixed-Race, Asian American and now Gay President. Andrew Sullivan, "The First Gay President" Newsweek. I admit, I've missed quite a bit being oceans and continents away from the US of A. But one watershed moment managed to reach my little apartment in Udaipur last week as I was sipping my morning chai. Front page of the Times of India. The article linking...
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Mixed Dreams: Who Gets to Be A POC?: Self-Identifying & Privilege
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Towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement. Bill of Rights for Mixed People. Sunday, February 9, 2014. Who Gets to Be A POC? This post is in response to a great question a friend asked about how the wonderful new book. Shifting the Lens on Race. By Dr Yaba Blay and Noelle Theard, featuring portraits of individuals who identify as "Black" speaks to an article entitled "4 Ways to Push Back on Your Privilege". May raise a few eyebrows. Take the portrait of 'Zun Lee' on the right. He says:. 8221; I think ...
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Mixed Dreams: Naming a Movement
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Towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement. Bill of Rights for Mixed People. The following article (courtesy of the Mixed Heritage Center) by key multiracial activist Ramona Douglass. Charts the growth of the "movement" as we know it today. The Evolution of the Multiracial Movement. What were the origins of the movement that brought these communities together in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s? What constitutes multiracial communities of the 21st century? Finally, where is the multiracial movement fo...
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Mixed Dreams: La Negra Tiene Tumbao: The "Afro" in "Latina"
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Towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement. Bill of Rights for Mixed People. Sunday, January 26, 2014. La Negra Tiene Tumbao: The "Afro" in "Latina". America parade in Madrid, Spain; Dominican immigrant youth. circa 2008. I was born in beautiful Santo Domingo, the capital city of the Dominican Republic. And while neither of my parents were. Dominican, I still hold on to the island as a part of my identity. My first passport was a Dominican one. In it, my "raza". O depending on whether the person is ma...
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Mixed Dreams: The Bookshelf
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Towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement. Bill of Rights for Mixed People. The books below (organized by publishing year) are just a taste of the growing scholarship and narratives on multi histories, identities, experiences. Please post any further book suggestions or comments! The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics and Aesthetics in the New Millennium. By Michele Elam (2011). The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua (1987). Racially Mixed People in America. By Maria P.P. Root (1992). Intermarriage and ...
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The Lesson Presents: Emerging Black Masculinities in Hip Hop: Track Three: Emerging Black Masculinities
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The Lesson Presents: Emerging Black Masculinities in Hip Hop. A sonic, visual, and textual mixtape exploring themes and changing dynamics of Black masculinity in rap music. Don't just listen to Hip Hop. Learn HIp Hop. Track Three: Emerging Black Masculinities. Now come on everybody, lets make cocaine cool. We need a few more half-naked women up in the pool. And hold this MAC-10 that’s all covered in jewels. And can you please put your titties closer to the 22s. And where’s the champagne? But I was lost.
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