Is Satoshi Kanazawa’s problem racial, sexual, or both
The personal motivations of those who make them are the most interesting things about racist choices. Because I am African American and blog at Psychology Today a friend wrote to tell me about another blogger, Satoshi Kanazawa. Kanazawa, a lecturer at the London School of Economics, recently published an answer to his own question: “Why [...]
Enuf talk about men, focus on the women: A review of Tyler Perry’s “For Colored Girls”
January 6, 2011 Comments Off
Tyler Perry’s recent film For Colored Girls, based on the “choreo-poem” written by Ntozake Shange, explores the poetic, theatrical and existential aspects of living in the world as a woman of colour. Shange’s play, whose full title is “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf”, was first staged in 1974 [...]
Continue reading …An old Ghanaian proverb says, “Until the lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” Journalism is the first draft of history. In the wake of Democrats’ shellacking in the midterm election, journalists and pundits blamed low black turnout for their losses. They compared 2010 turnout with 2008, but [...]
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Exactly one year ago, I published a book entitled, Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton. My publisher, Palgrave Macmillan, has decided to re-print in paperback and they’d like me to change the title to “…from Kennedy to Obama” and add a chapter about the President. I’ve been blogging since April 2009 and haven’t [...]
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By Terrion L. Williamson, Remember Don Imus? Remember how upset we were a few years back when the wretched shock-jock and his pals took to the airwaves to dis women of the Rutgers women’s basketball team, after they just missed winning the NCAA championship, referring to the black team members as nappy-headed hos? Remember how [...]
Continue reading …It’s graduation season. All the grades will soon be in. College acceptance and rejection letters have arrived, and after a year or more of test prep classes, SATs, recommendation letters, financial aid documents, and dozens of college applications and essays, many families can breathe again. While there are still many unanswered questions, at least the [...]
Continue reading …In the days to come, many moving and well-deserved tributes will be written to Dr. Dorothy Height, Civil Rights pioneer and women’s rights advocate. There are many people who can do Dr. Height’s life more justice than I can, and I hope they will. But as a scholar who works on Black women’s intellectual history, [...]
Continue reading …A few weeks ago I read an article in the Sunday (NY) Times about the new scope and focus of right-to-life organizations around the country. The benefactors of these good works and services are a group both familiar and dear to me~young African-American women. Imagine this… A local college or university campus center is screening [...]
Continue reading …Trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents: Women, the wealth gap, and why race still matters
March 30, 2010 1 CommentIn a recent Facebook post, one of my friends was incredulous that more than half of all single mothers live below the poverty line. He asked, “What can we do to solve this problem?” His question reminded me of the report released earlier this month by the Insight Center for Community and Economic Development. Among [...]
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