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Solidifying Hip-hop Studies
Research on hip-hop has expanded in breadth, rigor and nuance in the past ten years. Currently, this body of work signals the emergence of an interdisciplinary field gaining notoriety as hip-hop studies. The most recognized area of scholarship within hip-hop studies centers on commercial rap lyrics and their potential moral
Thinking About Justice in Little Rock: Philander Smith College
Recently I was invited to address the faculty and staff at Philander Smith College, a small Black college in Little Rock, Arkansas. The institution’s president, Walter Kimbrough, asked me to talk about the link between fundraising and academic excellence. As a result of a fantastic visit with the Philander Smith
Apologies Abound and CNN’s Black in America: The Inescapable Nexus
On July 28, in the year 2008, the United States House of Representatives, almost 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, passed H. Res. 194, offering a formal apology for the centuries-long, government-sanctioned enslavement of African Americans and for the generations of Jim Crow segregation and for the institutionalized discrimination that
“But professor? You’re not white, you’re German, right?”
As a proverbial “vanilla brother” (as my Dean affectionately refers to me) at an HBCU, on the daily I am in a position to experience and explore racial identity and its implications on classroom pedagogy. This applies to my own racial identity, that of my students, and how we co-construct
Native American Studies Making Strides
Many administrators are reticent to inaugurate Native American studies where no program currently exists because of concerns about programs and departments having a “universal” appeal. The problem with this line of thinking is that many of these same administrators still see the field of Native American studies (NAS) generating a
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Diverse Sponsors ‘Mentoring’ Panel Discussion
Journalist Janet Roach reports on the Diverse-sponsored panel discussion, “The Critical Role of Mentoring in Increasing Graduates and Faculty of Color”. The panel discussion was held in Washington, D.C. during the 98th annual conference of the Association of American Colleges and Universities.
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