(The role of class, et
hnic and racial antagonism in these processes deserved a bit more attention than Fogelson gives them.)
After a bit of foreplay, Todd Boyd launches headlong into the made-to-provoke thesis of The New
HNIC: that hip hop has displaced "the pious, sanctimonious nature of civil rights as the defining moment of Blackness." Boyd--a professor of critical studies at USC's film school--wants to free hip hop from the pop-culture ghetto and claim it as a movement, with political and social might.
For anyone wanting to understand the peculiarities of central European politics in an age of et
hnic assertiveness, and thus the vital context for both National Socialism--a movement with origins in pine-war Bohemia--and the shaping of its eventual leader, this book is indispensable.
Despite the findings, the debate regarding ethnic identity and social mobility cannot be resolved without further examining the multi-dimensions of et
hnic identity and how each influences economic outcomes.
Montagu's work also speaks directly to recent scholarship (e.g., Cornell and Hartmann 1998; Friedman 1994; Hall 1997) concerned with the contemporary formation of et
hnic and racial identities and the processes by which new ethnic identities emerge or become more salient -- not less -- in a rapidly globalizing environment.
Feminist, et
hnic, posteolonial, and cultural studies came to the rescue, saving deconstruction from its innate sterility, and enriching their own socio-political 'agenda'--yes, that's the word--with all kinds of subtle demystifications and demythifications.
HNIC's sheer status as national icon raises the question of whether it's our national sport because we play it so much or because we watch is so much.
Black marketing whiteness: From hustler to
HNIC. In J.
Rotten luck that they have appeared in the same week when a Channel 4 documentary produced evidence that most gang-rapes are carried out by et
hnic minority groups, but peculiar all the same.