The Hidden Fortress: No Ivy League and Legacies of Whiteness
Interrogating the complex legacies of racial injustice in Hazel Newlevant’s No Ivy League and Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude.
“Movies, Museums and the Hall of Fame” – Beat Street & the Past Future of Hip Hop
Hip Hop got up big time, and I love that, but its focus on cultural production left its political potential untapped.
“And Then We Take It Higher” – Interpreting Eddy Grant’s “Electric Avenue”
Poor black and brown people in the West joined by music and their relation to power.
Do-Or-Die Hawkeye. . . Erm. . . Bed-Stuy
Matt Fraction’s Hawkeye takes place in Bed-Stuy, but where are the black people?
The Middle Spaces 