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...helped break the careers of Nas and MF Doom (both black)—and to the multiracial breakdancing crews seen in 1982’s “Wild Style.” Neither example conforms to the neat classification of rap as a purely “black?? form.Still, to deny the tumultuous interplay of racial politics in hip-hop history would be irresponsible, especially now that the Cold Crush Brothers’ Grandmaster Caz leads bus tours of the South Bronx for flabby middle-class fans. But beyond the obvious danger of fetishization suggested...
...some issues, Reeves took a more forceful approach. He and his roommate and best friend, Doug Harris ’72 (the two believed they were the personification of Lorraine Hansberry’s play, “To Be Young, Gifted and Black??) fought for Harvard to divest from investments in Apartheid-era South Africa. When Harris helped coordinate a 1972 occupation of Massachusetts Hall, Reeves joined in the protesting...
...West’s comment is controversial for a second—less apparent—reason. As the Loeb associate professor of the social sciences, Tommie Shelby, demonstrates in his first book, “We Who Are Dark,” the term “black?? is difficult to define. Even if Kanye is correct, it’s not quite clear who Bush hates...
...called “black?? people run a wide range of skin pigments, music tastes, and cultural heritages. However, they do share, according to Shelby, a common experience of suffering anti-black racism—and they share a common goal of eradicating it. Any further attempt to place qualifiers on “blackness” will just limit the number of people pursuing this goal...
While Shelby refuses to espouse a single course of action that blacks should take to create political solidarity, he does suggest that blacks should look beyond commonly held conceptions of “black?? for their basis of solidarity. Instead, they should unite around their common political interests, which, according to Shelby, include fighting the lingering presence of anti-black racism in American society...