Beyoncé and the Sexual Objectification of Lemonade

The Most Neglected Person in America is the Black Woman

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. “As overly aggressive, unfeminine women, Black matriarchs allegedly emasculated their lovers and husbands. These men, understandably, either deserted their partners or refused to marry the mothers of their children. From the dominant group’s perspective, the matriarch represented a failed ...
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Beyoncé and the Sexual Objectification of Lemonade

Rap as News or Art?

“Rap music is the CNN of the ghetto.” – Chuck D

Rap began — Chuck D nailed it — as news from the streets. Rap riffed ghetto life, syncopated in hard rhymes and dense metaphor the raw reality of the ghetto. In Ronald Reagan’s America, blacks in the ...

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