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Students of economics, I have some bad news for you: economics isn’t a real science. When you get over that and realize that it’s your personality that’s going to land you that i-banking cubicle-slave job you’re after, you’ll be a lot better off. In the meantime, consider this opportunity-cost: spending four hours on your problem set and getting a B, or spending one hour on your problem set, finding a date for Saturday night, and still getting a B. Ah, the bell...
...circuit” is rich in symbolism: “chitlin’” is a slang form of “chitterling,” which is itself a euphemism for pork entrails. Chitlin’s have been a staple of black cooking since the slave era: plantation masters considered the organ meats refuse and, thus, suitable fare for human chattel. This historical promotion of junk meat into ethnic cuisine is metaphoric of Perry’s transformation of marginal black theater into a lucrative cultural force...
...actress appeared on HBO’s “The Wire” and NBC’s “Homicide: Life on the Streets”), told Wiener that she objected to Thernstrom’s syllabus, which included slaveowner’s journals but not slave narratives. Another African-American student, Paula Ford ’88, told Wiener that Thernstrom “said black men beat their wives...
...which the Devil replied, “Yes, my infernal slave. I shall provide thee with what thou hath requested...
...first thesis identified evidence of Islamic influence that survived from the Atlantic slave trade and the ante-bellum era, while the second thesis attributed Islam’s prominence among African-Americans to the effectiveness of such recent figures as Malcolm...