Academic Research and the Problem of "Othering"
There was a great article in the New York Times yesterday about Zora Neale Hurston’s hometown Eatonville, FL and how it tries to preserve its legacy in the face of tourism and academic research. The article made me reflect on…
4 Little Girls–45 Years Later
Throughout my academic learning of the civil rights movement, certain people and places were repeated ad nauseum. Martin Luther King Jr. with his wonderful dream, Brown vs. Board of Ed giving poor black kids a chance, and Rosa Parks didnt want to get…
It's All the Rage: Hispter Racism
In my previous post I lamented my generation’s involvement with race issues–now I see we are involved just in the most alienating and annoying way possible. First it was the cover of the New Yorker, then it was this fool running…
You Say Colorblind, I Say Intellectually Lazy
When Barack Obama won the primaries much attention was paid to my generation’s reasons for voting for him. Apparently, we’re color blind. Firstly, are we watching the same election? Is this the same election where Obama’s racial authenticity has been…
When the problem is in your backyard: NYC and Nonprofit Work
The kind of New York that people usually talk about is a New York that I am very unfamiliar with. I grew up in Marcy projects in Bed Stuy Brooklyn with my grandmother and mother as the oldest out of…
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