Word: mainstreaming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Mainstream America has shown little understanding lately of the patriotism that a lot of black people practice. Black love of country is often far more robust and complicated than the lapel-pin nationalism some citizens swear by. Barack Obama hinted at this when he declared in Montana a few weeks ago, "I love this country not because it's perfect but because we've always been able to move it closer to perfection. Because through revolution and slavery ... generations of Americans have shown their love of country by struggling and sacrificing and risking their lives to bring us that much...
...hold twice-daily prayer meetings with the children and to reunite nursing mothers with the 77 kids who are under age 2. Prosecutors worried that the prayer meetings might be used to influence the children "in a way to impede the ongoing investigation," but Walther's suggestion that mainstream Mormons might serve as neutral monitors was turned down flat by the official church. Church spokesman Scott Trotter told the Salt Lake Tribune that the beliefs of the FLDS long ago diverged from orthodox Mormonism and, "in fact, many in these isolated communities view us with some hostility as part...
Cynthia Gordy, associate editor of Essence Magazine, a lifestyle publication for black women, says that the contest promotes a “balance in mainstream hip-hop’s messages.” Part of this balance involves the gender representation in mainstream...
...felt that the mainstream culture of women was hypersexualized,” Gordy says. “I think that the issue is that there is now just some very one-sided images in this music...
...provides the rationale for another balance that the “Take Back the Music” contest is hoping to achieve—between the uninventive and the creative. Those involved with the contest seek to disrupt the creative stagnancy that stems from the monotony of mainstream hip-hop’s misogyny. Many people in both the contest and the genre’s broader community feel that while innovative music is being produced, it isn’t available from commercial radio stations or major labels. Thus, some critics argue that while hip-hop music has controversial...