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Nov 22

sub PULP culture FICTION

This week’s discussions of subculture were pretty random and brief so therefore so will my blog post. I did some research and found what I thought is the weirdest subculture out right now- Otherkin! People who reside with the Otherkin culture believe they are essentially non-human. These Otherkin creatures are usually ones that are associated [...]

Nov 16

Black Vs. Blacker

First off let me quickly define both according to my opinion, experiences and understandings. A black person is concisely an African American. The degree of your blackness depends on your actions and basically how “black” you live your life. This is what makes some people black and others blacker. The NY Times article “Is Obama [...]

Nov 15

The meaning of it all

After doing the readings for this week it seems like the main theme of difference is race. What I think was more interesting. Was that they all had to do with the white/black binary. I think the notion of other races appeared only a handful of times in the article on Obama and not at [...]

Nov 15

Difference

This week we learned about the difference and of course, the most important difference would be the race- this is the first thing that came into my mind when I heard “difference”. When I am thinking of a race, one of biggest factors is the Geographic and Location even though I do take account of [...]

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