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19
Nov
2009
Blackface-Cornbread_Bw_Session-VLS-1996

4 days ago by 1vls

http://www.discogs.com/Blackface-Cornbread-Session/release/518233 Label: Backstage Records (2) Catalog#: BSR-3012 Format: Vinyl, 12″ Country: US Released: 1996 Genre: Hip Hop Style: Conscious Tracklist: A1 Cornbread (Club) Producer – Hugo Boss (2) A2 Cornbread (Instrumental) Producer – Hugo Boss (2) ...

1vls blog - 1vls.wordpress.com

18
Nov
2009
30 Museums in 28 Weeks: MoCA

5 days ago by Livia Huang

The Museum of Chinese in America sits on a quiet stretch of Centre St. fringing Soho and Chinatown, and initially I mistake its glossy front for another boutique, except the two nattering men in uniform outside seem incongruous on an empty street. “Is this the…?” I’m still confused by the museum’s n ...

CUArts Blog - cuarts.wordpress.com · 3 references

17
Nov
2009
Even in the stands, blackface is never okay

6 days ago by jmalewitz

For some odd reason, blackface seems to be popping up everywhere - from the campus of Northwestern to variety s hows in Australia. It has even permeated the sports world. On Halloween, Chicago Blackhawks Adam Burish and Patrick Sharp painted their bodies brown to perfect their respective Scottie Pip ...

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16
Nov
2009
The Detroit Blackfaces and San Francisco Chinamen

7 days ago by pittswiley

"If I was on the Blackfaces, we'd be undefeated right now!" Sounds pretty bad, doesn’t it? The Supreme Court, not wanting to get involved in matters of right and wrong, opted not to hear the case of the Native American activists that find the name Washington Redskins offensive. Maybe the justices ar ...

The Cocktail Party - pittsindeed.wordpress.com · Rank: 21,371 · 15 references

a new kind of blackface

7 days ago by tiffdjones

“Life’s hard. It’s even harder when you’re stupid.”- John Wayne Mark of stupidity: Burglary suspects drew masks and beards on their faces using permanent marker pen There was little to disguise what these two had been up to moments before police pulled them over. Would-be burglars Matthew McNelly an ...

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15
Nov
2009
Innocent Halloween costume or blackface?

8 days ago by Robyn Urback

Editorial: Let's save our public condemnation for those with malicious intent

Macleans OnCampus - oncampus.macleans.ca/education · Rank: 14,530 · 226 references

Latest gear I’m obsessed with…

8 days ago by stevenreedkelly

I have serious gear envy sometimes. Here are a few amplifiers I’ve been crushing on lately… Last week I went to practice with a new band. The guitar player and drummer have a practice space out in Long Island, which is great because it’s not one of those pay-per-hour places that plague the boroughs ...

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Problems with free expression

8 days ago by Todd Pettigrew

The U of T blackface case raises important questions about the complex nature of freedom.

Macleans OnCampus - oncampus.macleans.ca/education · Rank: 14,530 · 226 references

14
Nov
2009
What was really groundbreaking about “Rapper’s Delight”?

9 days ago by Meredith Aska McBride

Matthew Guerrieri of the Boston Globe argues that the truly original thing about the 1979 hit rap single “Rapper’s Delight” is the fact that it doesn’t have a chorus, that staple of the pop-song form since, he says, the 1840’s, when the blackface group Christy’s Minstrels popularized the chorus. I’m ...

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White Toronto students in blackface win Halloween costume prize.

9 days ago by Restructure!

Apology sought after U of T students cause uproar with blackface for Halloween ( Globe & Mail): Five students dressed as members of the Jamaican bobsled team received costume award A University of Toronto student group is demanding public apologies from organizers of a Halloween party after particip ...

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