racism

It has been an exciting month here in the postracial United States. Rod Blagojevich proclaimed that he was blacker than Obama in Esquire magazine.  Read More »

This past weekend, at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting, I had the opportunity to hear a paper presentation by George Yancy, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University in Pennsylvania.

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Chris Rock reportedly settled on the topic of his latest film project after his 5-year-old daughter, Lola, asked him, “Daddy, how come I don't have good hair?” It’s an interesting and complex topic, but not one that we haven’t heard about lately, which is why perhaps I didn’t enter the theater expecting what turned out to be a key critical text about  Read More »

Yesterday I watched The Cleveland Show, a spinoff of Fox’s Family Guy. It wasn’t very funny to me. In fact, it was predictable.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m a Family Guy fan. I enjoy its particularly irreverent sense of humor, despite its stereotypical racism. But nothing about The Cleveland Show struck me as funny.  Read More »