Why Some Like The New Jim Crow So Much
WHY SOME LIKE THE NEW JIM CROW SO MUCH: Michelle Alexander is unlike “Some Radical Group[s]” who must be “Crazy” & “Absurd” by Greg Thomas “This book is not for everyone.” – Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow (2010) Riveted on “skeptics,” Michelle Alexander writes of “three major racialized systems of control adopted in the…
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Mi Say WAR: Hip-Hop vs. The Bourgeois West … and ‘Hip-Hop Studies’? (A Review of Tricia Rose’s The Hip-Hop Wars, For Example) by Greg Thomas “It’s bigger than religion Hip-Hop It’s bigger than my nigga Hip-Hop It’s bigger than the government [Erykah Badu, “The Healer / Hip-Hop” (2008)] And it’s much bigger than academic criticism, for sure. Sylvia…
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