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Marcia Alesan Dawkins

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Marcia Alesan Dawkins is an award-winning writer, speaker, educator and visiting scholar at Brown University. She is the author of Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity (Baylor UP, 2012) and Eminem: The Real Slim Shady (Praeger, 2013).

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Eminem Rap God? Welcome Back, Max Headroom

By Marcia Alesan Dawkins on November 27, 2013

For your consideration, Eminem's "Rap God" video, where the real Slim Shady looks a lot like the real Max Headroom, the 1980s artificial intelligence... Read more →
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The 5 Boldest Things Kanye West is Saying

By Marcia Alesan Dawkins on October 22, 2013

Kanye West, troubadour of politics, race and the fight against commercialism, sat down last week with BBC Radio for a series of interviews that... Read more →
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Missy Elliott: It Takes a Woman

By Marcia Alesan Dawkins on October 22, 2013

Mr. Van Toffler, President of Viacom Media Networks Music & Logo Group, has succeeded in making MTV the preeminent entertainment destination for the... Read more →
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Passing as Persuasion

By Marcia Alesan Dawkins on November 8, 2012

This article is excerpted from Clearly Invisible, a new book about passing and cultural identity in America today. It was one o’clock in the... Read more →
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Victoria’s Secret Soundtrack of Desire

By Marcia Alesan Dawkins on January 5, 2012

As a consumer, you’ve experienced desire: that longing for someone, that appetite for something more, that expectation of pleasure and satisfaction... Read more →
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Marcia Alesan Dawkins: Thank You, Grandpa, Rafael Matos, Sr., for This Poem

By Marcia Alesan Dawkins on November 23, 2011

Grandpa, your work reminds me that there is so much for which to be thankful even if we can’t see it.  For the world around us and the beauty that... Read more →
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The Film You Didn’t See – Who’s the Alien, Cowboy?

By Marcia Alesan Dawkins on August 25, 2011

Chances are you didn’t see Cowboys and Aliens. The film won’t get to $100 million box office in the US, and it is sinking fast overseas as... Read more →
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Devils, Doppelgangers and Darkness from Eminem

By Marcia Alesan Dawkins on July 14, 2011

  On a clear night in June I watched a man kill himself. He said he was going to do it. I don't know why. And I'm not the only one. All we... Read more →
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Taking “Bad Teacher” to School

By Marcia Alesan Dawkins on June 30, 2011

Let’s be honest. Teachers don’t get into the profession for the money. Nowadays they don’t get into the profession for respect either. So why... Read more →
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Mixed Race Children,The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

By Marcia Alesan Dawkins on June 23, 2011

Professors Ravinder Barn and Vicki Harman from the Centre for Criminology and Sociology at Royal Holloway, University of London are carrying out... Read more →
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