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...winter’s various follicular ravages. —Henry M. CowlesKanye West"Touch the Sky"Weren’t music videos originally conceived as a form of marketing, you know, music? Well, apparently they now require marketing of their own—at least judging by Kanye West??s “Touch the Sky,” a five-minute music video that was deemed grand enough to warrant a 30-second trailer hyping its release. But is this really surprising coming from Kanye “I Should Be in the Bible?...
...that “we” can understand “them” or the “West?? win over the “Rest,” but so that we can attempt to emancipate discussions of values from fundamentalism and floundering, inescapable relativism. Not because cultural difference is a myth, but because the vision of the world that would make it insurmountable is, Appiah insists, exaggerated...
Fortunately this is not the case. West??s departure liberated, rather than doomed AAAS; its scholarship has progressed not in spite of, but precisely because of his absence. West is a virtuoso indeed—in every pursuit (film acting, political consulting, autobiographical writing, musical recording) but serious research and analysis. Far from providing the AAAS clout, West stifled its real scholastic accomplishments with the oversize presence of a top-notch showman...
...remark sparked a response from many right wingers, including pro-Bush rap rival 50 Cent. But 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...
...Shelby shows that an individual need not agree with Kanye West politically—or even appreciate hip-hop music—to join in black solidarity. But, as West??s remark suggests, racism lingers at all levels of American society (as demonstrated so powerfully in the aftermath of Katrina), and Shelby rightly suggests that black solidarity can be vibrant even if it is narrowly tailored to combat that prejudice...