commercialism Category Archives
Family of Skin Bleachers in Jamaica
Published on 8 Apr 2009 at 10:53 am.
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Filed under Uncategorized, fashion, diaspora, black image, commercialism, health.
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Russell Simmons a PR Puppet for the Diamond Industry? Simmons=Diamond Industry’s New Best Friend?
Published on 23 Dec 2006 at 5:25 am.
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Filed under racism, news/politics, entertainment, poverty, commercialism.
Apparently, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons is the diamond industry’s new best friend. Simmons just returned from a nine-day fact-finding mission to South Africa and Botswana after an invitation from the industry’s Diamond Information Center. The Diamond Information Center handles public relations in the United States for the Diamond Trading Company, the marketing […]
What? it’s just Hip-Hop
Published on 11 Dec 2006 at 5:03 am.
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Filed under mainstream culture, entertainment, history, commercialism.
There’s alot of criticism of Hip-Hop out there: gratuitous violence, misogyny, the glorification of trapp’n hustling and drug dealing, the music videos, commercialism etc. In an article entitled How Hip-Hop Holds Blacks Back, John McWhorter states,
“[Hip-Hop has] long hindered Blacks… by teaching young Blacks that a thuggish adversarial stance is the properly ‘authentic’ response […]
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Equal®?
Published on 3 Dec 2006 at 4:12 pm.
15 Comments.
Filed under television, radical politics, commercialism.
This post and the artwork that accompanies it come courtesy of Pierce and I’s sister, Maya, an MFA student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA.
Taking a break from my Civil Rights class taught by Professor Gerald Gill at Tufts University, I stepped into the graduate lounge and a packet […]
