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Dr. Chinyere Osuji
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May 11, 2022

Faking the Funk: When White Women Play BIPOC

Updated: Oct 25, 2021 Rachel Dolezal. Then, we learned about Jess “La Bombalera” Krug. Since then, there have been several examples of White women engaging in cultural appropriation. However, most recently, Hilaria Baldwin née Hillary Hayward-Thomas has been outed as a Massachusetts Bostonian and not the Spaniard she has claimed…

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Faking the Funk: When White Women Play BIPOC
Faking the Funk: When White Women Play BIPOC

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May 11, 2022

Squid Game: Why It Resonates around the Globe

Updated: Oct 22, 2021 As a new Kdrama lover, I feel vindicated seeing that Squid Game was the most-watched show of all time on Netflix. But as a sociologist, I realize that the series touches on themes that resonate with people around the world as we grind under the wheel…

Kdrama

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Squid Game: Why It Resonates around the Globe
Squid Game: Why It Resonates around the Globe
Kdrama

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May 11, 2022

Disney+’s Snowdrop Fail

Updated: Feb 12 After many trials and tribulations, Snowdrop has finally come to North America. The series comes from the screenwriter-director team, Yoo Hyun-Mi and Jo Hyun-Tak, known for the popular 2019 Korean drama SKY Castle. Snowdrop is a show from the cable network JTBC and takes place in 1987…

Kdrama

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Disney+’s Snowdrop Fail
Disney+’s Snowdrop Fail
Kdrama

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Dec 13, 2021

On Being a ‘Hard Stick’

On multiple occasions, nurses have a difficult time finding my veins and have been called a “hard stick.” As a sociologist who recognizes the power of labels, this has often bothered me. Even if I drink a gallon of water the day before an IV, it is still difficult for…

Nursing

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On Being a ‘Hard Stick’
On Being a ‘Hard Stick’
Nursing

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Oct 7, 2021

Squid Game: Why It Resonates Around the Globe

As a new Kdrama lover, I feel vindicated seeing that Squid Game was the most-watched show of all time on Netflix. But as a sociologist, I realize that the series touches on themes that resonate with people around the world as we grind under the wheel of global capitalism. There…

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Squid Game: Why It Resonates Around the Globe
Squid Game: Why It Resonates Around the Globe

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Jan 5, 2021

Escaping Ordinary Whiteness: Rachel Dolezal, Jessica Krug, and Hilaria Baldwin and the Men Who Help Them

First, there was Rachel Dolezal. Then, we learned about Jess “La Bombalera” Krug. Since then, there have been several examples of White women engaging in cultural appropriation. However, most recently, Hilaria Baldwin née Hillary Hayward-Thomas has been outed as a Massachusetts Bostonian and not the Spaniard she has claimed to…

Hilaria Baldwin

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Ordinary Whiteness: Rachel Dolezal, Jessica Krug, and Hilaria Baldwin and the Men Who Help Them…
Ordinary Whiteness: Rachel Dolezal, Jessica Krug, and Hilaria Baldwin and the Men Who Help Them…
Hilaria Baldwin

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Aug 4, 2020

“The 1619 Project” and Black Resistance in a Time of #BlackLivesMatter

If you ask most Americans when enslaved Africans were first brought to what became the United States, they will likely tell you 1619. This is thanks to the Pulitzer-prize winning 1619 Project led by the journalist, Nicole Hannah-Jones. Filled with testimonies of Blacks who endured slavery as well as the…

Slavery

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Slavery

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May 25, 2020

Race and Counting Covid-19 Deaths

When it comes to African Americans and Covid-19, we have been swinging from one extreme to the other. As my African American friend living in Paris described self-isolating days before her workplace made it official, on this side of the pond, Blacks were minimizing its impact. “Black people don’t get…

Covid-19

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Covid-19

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Feb 14, 2020

Being More ‘Open:’ Black Women Negotiate Dating and Marrying White Men

When I was studying at Harvard in the early 2000s, I had a black immigrant professor who had built part of his career gas-lighting anti-black discrimination in favor of 1990s-style black cultural inferiority tropes. My grad school girlfriends and I awkwardly giggled over “the sex parts” of his book on…

Black Women

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Black Women

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Feb 14, 2020

Two Very Blonde Latinas, Black Artist Boycott, and Erasure of Blackness in the Super Bowl

Black musicians boycotted the Super Bowl. Hell, even Afro-Latinx and Afro-Caribbeans boycotted the Super Bowl. So, the NFL brought in two world-renowned Latinas to do their thang. And they did it so well! Shakira knew her audience, so she didn’t do anything from her first or second albums. Most Americans…

Race

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Two Very Blonde Latinas, Black Artist Boycott, and Erasure of Blackness in the Super Bowl
Two Very Blonde Latinas, Black Artist Boycott, and Erasure of Blackness in the Super Bowl
Race

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