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For Your Holiday Reading List
Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-Hop and Black Politics, Lester K. Spence, (University of Minnesota Press) The American tradition of political protest songs runs rich and deep. Think of Billie Holiday (“Strange Fruit”), Woody Guthrie (“This Land Is Your Land”), Pete Seeger (“If I Had a Hammer”), Bob Dylan (“Blowin’ in the Wind”)…
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Black Books That Scholars Are Reading
The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter (W.W. Norton & Co.) Why is it that we classify people by skin color? Is it “natural” to do so? Painter doesn’t think so, and she can prove it. In her eye-opening The History of White People, Painter shows that the Greeks, Romans and people of…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
