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Bebop as a Hybrid Inflection of Strategic Afro-Modernism 23 May 2013 | 01:58 pm
Although it shares several features and impetuses with so-called classical modernism—for example, formal innovations and reaching new heights of expressivity—Afro-modernism of the 1940s manifests dist...
Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment by Dr. Jill A McCorkel 14 Apr 2013 | 06:12 pm
Below is a brief description of my colleague, Dr. Jill A. McCorkel’s new book, Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment. Since the 1980s, when the War on Drugs kicked into hi...
Frederick Douglass: The Paradoxes of Literacy in Liminality 1 Apr 2013 | 04:03 pm
Those familiar with Douglass’s Narrative of the Life will readily recall his creative, improvisatory maneuverings as he strove toward his goal of literacy. Given that the authoritative discourses did ...
Fanon on the Irreciprocity and Fixed Difference of Colonized Space 25 Feb 2013 | 12:17 am
Both philosophers of race and sociologists have explained how the racialization of phenotypic differences and negative socio-political narratives of race such as equating blackness with criminality de...
Black Swan Records and Early Attempts to De-racialize Musical Categories and Aesthetic Standards 2 Feb 2013 | 04:17 pm
Black Swan Records was a small, black-owned record company created in the early 1900s under the direction and leadership of Harry H. Pace, a former student of W. E. B. Du Bois.[1] Although Black Swan’...
Martin Luther King Jr. on Human Solidarity, An Inescapable Network of Mutuality, and the Dangers of Un-interrogated “Whiteness” 21 Jan 2013 | 07:13 pm
In Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s essay, “Nonviolence and Racial Justice,” he observes that true peace requires “the presence of some positive force—justice, good will and brotherhood.” In today’s world...
Call and Response: C.I. Aki’s Textual “Remix” of Zolatova’s Hip-Hop (Untitled) Poem 18 Jan 2013 | 12:56 am
In the post below, C. I. Aki “riffs” on Zolatova’s hip-hop (as of yet, nameless) poem. Check it out. Hip-hop created the remix as we know it. There is no disputing that. From Bird’s and Dizz’s give-a...
Guest Post by Kristina Zolatova: A Name for the Unnamed 17 Jan 2013 | 03:26 pm
Dr. Kristina Zolatova, featured for the first time here, is seeking suggestions for a title for her new poem (see below). Since I have encountered so many creative people through my blog, I encourage...
The Unfolding Penal Drama or How Pell Grant Funding for Postsecondary Correctional Education for Prisoners Was Lost 26 Dec 2012 | 05:38 pm
Drawing upon and extending Emile Durkheim’s communicative theory of penality, Joshua Page shows how popular narratives—including racialized narratives—disseminated via mass media and employed by polit...
John Dominic Crossan on “The Challenge of Christmas” or God’s Kingdom is a Kingdom of Peace, Not Violence 22 Dec 2012 | 08:48 pm
Below is an apropos, thought-provoking (and lengthy) excerpt from a Christmas reflection by John Dominic Crossan, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at DePaul University. You may access the arti...
