by admin | Jun 27, 2006 | Announcements, Public Health
I am in Houston at the 4th Annual Summer Workshop on Health Disparities. A number of the countries best and brightest are here to talk about health disparities from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Right now I’m listening to Bill Jenkins and he’s talking about...
by admin | Jun 24, 2006 | Afrofuturism |
I read Octavia Butler’s last book, Fledgling. I’ve talked about what Butler meant to me as an Afrofuturist. On one level Fledgling is a very simple book, attempting to answer a series of very simple questions. Reading it I can see the gears turning in Butler’s head....
by admin | Jun 21, 2006 | Hip-hop |
Over the weekend I had a chance to read Hip Hop Matters by S. Craig Watkins. Probably the best book of its kind in the field. It was a little formulaic in places–in order to flesh out the narrative Watkins presents brief bios of important figures in rap, and after a...
by admin | Jun 19, 2006 | Announcements, Black Family
I took the post below and snatched it from my old haunts. I remember the first time I heard “Song for My Father” by Horace Silver. I couldn’t have been more than five years old. My grandfather played it, and other old school classics, religiously. We never got a...
by admin | Jun 18, 2006 | Black Family, NPR, Public Health, The Mass Media |
Around Mother’s Day a group publishes a report on the State of the World’s Moms. The United States didn’t fare too well. My latest commentary on NPR looks at how these numbers jibe with the supposed “culture of life” that Bush supports. This came out a few weeks ago,...
by admin | Jun 18, 2006 | Announcements |
I changed my CMS from Geeklog to WordPress after much deliberation. I wanted a cleaner look, and I also wanted to be able to use tags to organize my blog entries. WordPress offers both, plus literally hundreds of plugins and themes. My wife’s blog was probably the...
by admin | Apr 30, 2006 | Racial Politics, things that make you go hmm
In short, yes. Nick Winter recently published a paper in The American Journal of Political Science arguing that social security was in effect racialized in the exact opposite way as Affirmative Action had been racialized: In this article I argue that the framing of...
by admin | Apr 27, 2006 | Education, Hip-hop |
Political scientists like myself have surveys on the determinants of black political ideology, on political participation, on sexual attitudes. But examining the cultural politics literature, it appears as if no one has sought to apply the various things we’ve learned...
by admin | Apr 14, 2006 | Gender and Politics, Hip-hop, Pop Culture, things that make you go hmm
Within the subculture literature a number of scholars have talked about the virtual absence of women. Looking at the works that attempted to analyse the punk movement in Great Britain for example, it is almost as if girls weren’t present. No girls at the clubs, no...
by admin | Apr 14, 2006 | Hip-hop, Pop Culture, things that make you go hmm
In the article “Keepin’ It Real–Black Youth, Hip-Hop Culture, and Black Identity” author Andreana Clay expands on the concept of “cultural capital” elucidated by Bourdieu by analyzing how black youth use hip-hop to authenticate their identities. Clay has this to say...
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