Word: urban
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...institution where we can explore this in many profound ways.2.FM: You say that you started studying hip-hop academically while working at UCLA during the fallout after Ice Cube left NWA. How did this turn you to hip-hop? MM: I was teaching a course on urban speech communities, it was a classical anthropology course, and I kept getting all these essays about Ice Cube and so my first reaction was, “Hip-hop in the classroom? Stop it.” But they basically argued that this is an anthropological course, it’s about urban...
...workers in Kenya, and the times in between working in various organizations across campuses. “She is a programming chair of PBHA,” says Phillips Brooks House Association President (PBHA) Angelico N. A. Razon ’08, who met Chen during the Freshman Urban Program. “That’s supporting 73, 74 programs at the same time.” As a board member of the nationally recognized Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, Chen worked on a program that has urged universities to make use of their licensing leverage to require pharmaceutical...
...established field since the early 1970s. But over the last two decades, the field has moved east to find a home at Ivy League institutions. At Cornell, whose Asian American studies program was founded in 1978, students can take a course called “The Asian American Urban Experience.” The University of Pennsylvania offers “Asian-Americans in the Media.” Both schools have minors in Asian American studies and offer more than a dozen courses in the field every year. Meanwhile, Harvard’s course guide lists only four Asian...
...confident that they have been separated from the goats. But are they sheep among sheep? This remains to be seen. The process of winnowing may begin even before students arrive at Harvard, as some experience the rarefied pleasure of applying to one or more pre-orientation programs. The Freshman Urban Program, for instance, gleefully informs applicants that: “Due to limited space and resources, we can only accept a fraction of those who apply, and we maintain an active wait-list.” And this is nothing compared to the bewildering array of “comps?...
...purposes...[Photographs] can beautify a subject we normally might not deem beautiful.”There is no doubt that Brouws’s photographs are aesthetically pleasing: they capture the magical atmosphere of desolate landscapes with unfailing honesty. This is especially remarkable since his subjects—what urban geographers call TOADS (Temporary Obsolete Abandoned Derelict Sites)—are traditionally considered unaesthetic and unnoteworthy. It is ironic, then, that the elements that seduce viewers are precisely those that Brouws aims to portray as inherently destructive to our culture.The book’s three chapters?...