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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance".

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Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, bord...more

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Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal subjectivity...more

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The whiteness celebrated in Paris is Burning is not just any old brand of whiteness but rather that brutal imperial ruling-class capitalist patriarcha...more

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We keep coming back to the question of representation because identity is always about representation. People forget that when they wanted white women...more

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black identities are diverse and complex…

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Individuals who speak languages other than English, who speak patois as well as standard English, find it a necessary aspect of self-affirmation not t...more

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Most gay men are as sexist in their thinking as are heterosexuals. Their patriarchal thinking leads them to construct paradigms of desirable sexual be...more

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Once upon a time black male “cool” was defined by the ways in which black men confronted hardships of life without allowing their spirits to be ravage...more

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Patriarchal hip-hop ushered in a world where black males could declare that they were “keeping it real” when what they were really doing was taking th...more