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A Productive-Ass Suffix

An early use of the spoonerism "bass-ackwards" turns up in an 1840s letter by a young Abraham Lincoln.
by Ben Zimmer via Language Log on January 29, 2018
Illustration of Elvis Presley and Big Mama Thornton

The Question of Cultural Appropriation

It’s more helpful to think about exploitation and disrespect than to define cultural “ownership.”
by Briahna Joy Gray via Current Affairs on September 6, 2017
Guitar Shorty sitting on a bench outside of a house, and playing guitar while smoking a cigar.

Put on my Clothes and Look Like Somebody Else

The life of Guitar Shorty was a mixture of facts, lies and fantasy. He was a blues musician who lived far outside mainstream society.
by Sarah Bryan via Oxford American on April 17, 2017
A book about black power lies next to a pair of running shoes, 1969.

A Black Power Method

Interrogating dominant white perspectives in mainstream media outlets, government records, and in the very definition of what constitutes a credible source.
by N. D. B. Connolly via Public Books on June 15, 2016

The Rise of ‘Mama’

Like most cultural shifts in language, the rise of white, upper-middle class women who call themselves ‘mama’ seemed to happen slowly, and then all at once.
by Elissa Strauss via Longreads on May 10, 2015

Black Beethoven and the Racial Politics of Music History

How the attempt to claim Beethoven as Black actually recycles racist tropes.
by Nicholas T. Rinehart via Transition on November 13, 2013
Woody Guthrie.

This Land Is Our Land

The Popular Front and American culture.
by Michael Kazin via Humanities on May 1, 2011
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, far left, interviewing Black filmmakers Mario Van Peebles, Neema Barnette, John Singleton, Reginald Hudlin, and Warrington Hudlin (left to right).
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Soul of Black Identity: New Jack Cinema

A conversation with some of the hottest filmmakers on the scene: They're young, they're Black, but they're making green.
by MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on August 16, 1991

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