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Life Comes in a Variety of Flavors
In today’s day and age it has become normalized to see certain products targeted toward certain groups of people. Specific products are made twice in two different forms to sell to a wider audience....
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I recently found this video on Youtube and found it to be a funny parody of the way I often imagine many Black actors/actresses may feel in Hollywood. In the video, a casting director is telling a...
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What Are You Thankful For?
In honor of Thanksgiving I thought I would bring up the institutional racism that exists in our countries celebration of this holiday. Every year the United States celebrates “mass genocide and land...
View ArticleLupe Fiasco: Critiquing Modern Day Blackface
Lupe Fiasco’s song Bitch Bad, Woman Good examines the impact that media images of black adults have on young people. The video examines the intersectionality of race and sex through several different...
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“Because You’re Black You Deserve to Die”
Duane Buck from Texas has been convicted of killing two people in 1997. While he is guilty of his offenses, he has been sentenced to death because he is black. In order for someone in Texas to...
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Racism is Over!
Recently the GOP posted a tweet in a failed attempt to try to honor Rosa Parks: RNC@GOP: Today we remember Rosa Parks’ bold stand and her role in ending racism. Despite their later revision and change...
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Natural Beauty
12-year-old Vanessa VanDyke from Orlando, Florida is an honor roll student at Faith Christian Academy. She was told by the school administrators that her hair was a distraction and that she and her...
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No Stranger to Capitalizing on Race: Big Business
The appropriation of favorable parts of non-white cultures has been commonplace in business practice for years.Take for example, a company like Urban Outfitters (UO), who is no stranger to marketing...
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Grindr, Preferences, and Identity
White, male-identified, cisgender, cissexual, and masculine presenting individuals dominate Grindr by dictating what is desirable and acceptable in other users of the application. Across the largely...
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Looking Back Through the Semester
Perusing through the semester’s collection of blogs nearly eight months following the end of Soc 250, “Race and Ethnicity in U.S. Society,” I must say that the class not only authored but critically...
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