DIVERSE Views

Solidifying Hip-hop Studies

by Dr. Emery Petchauer, August 26, 2008

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

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Thinking About Justice in Little Rock: Philander Smith College

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, August 24, 2008

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

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Being Black, Male and Educated in Today's World

by Dr. James Ewers, August 21, 2008

There are far too many black males being portrayed as useless citizens in our society.  We see pictures of us being sent to jail or being expelled from school.  Some of us still turn a blind eye to what is going on around us.  The CNN Special, “Black in America”

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Apologies Abound and CNN’s Black in America: The Inescapable Nexus

by Dr. Pamela D. Reed, August 14, 2008

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

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“But professor? You’re not white, you’re German, right?”

by Dr. Emery Petchauer, August 11, 2008

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

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