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).
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 →
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 →
Mr. Van Toffler, President of Viacom Media Networks Music & Logo Group, has succeeded in making MTV the preeminent entertainment destination for the... Read more →
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 →
As a consumer, you’ve experienced desire: that longing for someone, that appetite for something more, that expectation of pleasure and satisfaction... Read more →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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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