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Trump’s lily-white male image of America

Jack Jackson — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 01:55:46 +0000

This post needs a teaser (*)(*)(*)(*)

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Cultural Aggression?

Alan — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 02:28:08 +0000

What makes creative cooperation and borrowing into appropriation and exploitation?

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America’s Culture

Alan — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 04:13:06 +0000

“Jazz is America’s classical music.” Agree or not, African culture is an essential enriching part of U.S. American culture, and world culture and commerce….

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Violence and Protest

Alan — Fri, 26 May 2017 02:53:48 +0000

Nowadays it’s more true to say that protest deteriorates into violence, in Baltimore, in Ferguson, in Europe, Asia, in Africa —when the social system, especially the advantaged classes, shows its/their inability to accommodate the need for change, equal justice and growth.

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Denying Cultural Democracy

Alan — Wed, 17 May 2017 04:30:49 +0000

Starting around 1875, Wilmington newspapers lamented African Americans’ monopoly on public music in the city, and calling for the formation of a White brass band! Eventually white musicians did indeed form a “Kornet Kavalier Klub!” Yet the Ku Klux Klan had disbanded or “gone underground” (as debated in the How the South Won the War program) around 1874….

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Soundtracts

Alan — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 02:20:10 +0000

Do you have ideas for music, permissions, or public domain recordings appropriate to the story of Wilmington from the Reconstruction through the coup d’etat of 1898, its “race riots” of 1968, and its reconciliation efforts of 1997 to the present day?

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Has “Black History Month” Outlived Its Usefulness?

Alan — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 03:41:45 +0000

When Carter G. Woodson first called for a Negro History Week...

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Definitions

Alan — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 05:27:13 +0000

RACE: is a visceral experience of human heterogeneity, of cultural insularity or “tribalism.”

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