echoings:

“Every Little Step” by Bobby Brown from Don’t Be Cruel.

Fact: In the late-’80s and early ’90s, Brown’s style of rap was injected into the bridge of many Pop songs, essentially replacing a guitar solo. As rap evolved, this style became outdated, but it helped bring together Hip-Hop and Pop, especially since the rap could be removed on versions for the many radio stations that were not comfortable with the genré.

aboutegypt:

0036 - Giza (by SKWPhotos)

aboutegypt:

(by Fedorian)

Enjoy.

counterftnoire:

“Helen Heran Jun explores how the history of U.S. citizenshiphas positioned Asian Americans and African Americans in interlocking socio-political relationships since the mid nineteenth century. Rejecting the conventional emphasis on ‘inter-racial prejudice,’ Jun demonstrates how a politics of inclusion has constituted a racial Other within Asian American and African American discourses of national identity.

Race for Citizenship examines three salient moments when African American and Asian American citizenship become acutely visible as related crises: the ‘Negro Problem’ and the ‘Yellow Question’ in the mid- to late 19th century; World War II-era questions around race, loyalty, and national identity in the context of internment and Jim Crow segregation; and post-Civil Rights discourses of disenfranchisement and national belonging under globalization. Taking up a range of cultural texts—the 19th century black press, the writings of black feminist Anna Julia Cooper, Asian American novels, African American and Asian American commercial film and documentary—Jun does not seek to document signs of cross-racial identification, but instead demonstrates how the logic of citizenship compels racialized subjects to produce developmental narratives of inclusion in the effort to achieve political, economic, and social incorporation. Race for Citizenship provides a new model of comparative race studies by situating contemporary questions of differential racial formations within a long genealogy of anti-racist discourse constrained by liberal notions of inclusion.”