Not Your Mom’s Double Standards

In elementary school, I remember being fascinated by the concept of creating civilizations. Although we throw around the term “civilized” quite often and to refer to a certain class level, the birth of… Read More →

Sex-Role Stereotyping in Music Videos

Initially, for my project, I wanted to measure the degree of sexuality present in soul music across time and one component of the measurement was to examine music videos and see if the… Read More →

Lyrical Privilege

It’s been a longstanding joke with (black) comedians that for a black man or woman, a drunken night out on the town with white friends could result in serious accident or injury because… Read More →

Queering the Color Line

Queering the Color Line explores the intersection of race and sexuality in the early 20th century. A lot of research has and continues to focus on either topic, but few acknowledge what happens… Read More →

Hip Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism

Spectacular Vernaculars looks at hip hop’s role across time in the African American experience and ultimately what the genre. I chose this book based on the praises of the author and his skill… Read More →

Sexualization in Lyrics of Popular Music

This article was initially selected based on the time tested “judging a book by its cover” method, or better yet, its title. And while I was worried that I was about to read… Read More →