Category: Cultural Studies
Baggy Pants
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Are sagging pants more than just a fad and do they symbolize a generation of losers? Dr. James Ewers, associate dean of Student Affairs at Miami University, talks about this fashion statement and its impact on student...
Killing Them Harshly
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Several years after radio talk show host Joe Madison saw an examination of slavery in Mauritania and Sudan on Tony Brown’s Journal, he journeyed to Africa to do his own investigation. What he found was heart wrenchin...
The Evolution of Sammy Davis
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It's 1983 and Sammy Davis and I sit down and reflect on his television interview with me in 1971. Sammy Davis says, "I’ve survived where other cats would have been down the tubes. A lot of people don’t like themselv...
How Much Do Blacks Pay for Being Black?
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No matter how hard Blacks work or how well educated they become, they cannot close the well-being gap with Whites unless they significantly improve their accumulated investments. That is the conclusion of Professor Th...
Black Dialect
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An examination of the Black dialect and the effort to bridge the language gap between Black vernacular and Standard American English. Guests: Dr. Grace Hope, Dr. Roger Shuy, Attorney Kenneth Lewis. (311)
Is it Racism or Excuses?
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In a Newsweek poll many Blacks believed that the government is responsible for the crisis in the Black community. Can many of the problems facing the Black community be attributed to racism or Black America's inab...
A Nation Divided
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This edition examines the causes and effects of the Rodney King verdict, the ensuing riots and America's underlying racial tensions. This round-table discussion also focuses on race relations between Blacks, Whites an...
Does Culture Trump Race?
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According to scientific studies, all humans are 99.9 percent genetically identical. However, the Atlantic slave trade was based on skin color, which scientists say is determined by only six of 40,000 genes or just on...
The Changing Face of Black Higher Education
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The changing ethnic composition of traditional Black colleges and universities and the normal issues facing all institutions of higher learning present unique challenges for educators faced with the original mission o...
