identity – Robert Lloyd Artist & Advocate https://4comculture.com Building The Community You Are Looking For Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:16:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 28322325 Reading Beyond the Requirements https://4comculture.com/archives/4527?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reading-beyond-the-requirements https://4comculture.com/archives/4527#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:00:48 +0000 https://4comculture.com/?p=4527 Continue reading →]]> Dr. James Burnley in a recent article for students exhorted them to go beyond what they were presented in classes:  “…. go further and seek the truth about your history. Seeking such truth means that you will have to read beyond what you are required to read in most if not all of the degree programs you are seeking to attain.”

Burley discusses the work of Mamie & Kenneth Clark:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RqsGTS5TPQ&feature=related

Full text of Dr. Burnley’s article:
Reading Beyond the Requirements or Learning to Love the Black Dolls

 

 

]]> https://4comculture.com/archives/4527/feed 1 4527 How To Be Black: Baratunde Thurston https://4comculture.com/archives/4199?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-be-black-baratunde-thurston https://4comculture.com/archives/4199#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:52:12 +0000 https://4comculture.com/?p=4199 Continue reading →]]> It’s no coincidence that Baratunde Thurston’s new memoir and satirical self-help book How to Be Black was slated for release on the first day of Black History Month.

“I feel great about that,” Thurston tells Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross. “I think we have a moment every year in our country where everyone buys black stamps and thinks more explicitly about black people and blackness, so it was a perfect month to release a book on this subject.”

Thurston, a stand-up comedian and The Onion‘s digital director, says that he doesn’t get as many gigs this month as one might think.

Let Baratunde tell you his story.

 

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