The Problem with Social Problems
Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge social research accessible to general readers.| Contexts
Black music has long been an important tool for soft power, manufacturing consent for the coups, occupations, and drone strikes that reproduce the image of American peace and prosperity. I’m not suggesting that the beef was meant to distract from political issues, or that both artists haven’t made institutional critiques on and off their records. But there’s a reason that this particular beef would attract this level of attention at this particular moment, and it goes beyond their respe...| Scalawag
Alternate title for this blog post: Girl, why are you so wrong? I respond to Maya Phillips' criticism of three movies by black writers featuring black casts, that have recently arrived on streaming services: The American Society of Magical Negroes, American Fiction and The Blackening.| Unsolicited Advice from Tiffany B. Brown
I’ve celebrated Resurrection Sunday my whole life. I’ve been fully familiar with Black liberation theology’s commentary that Jesus was a brown-skinned Jew who was killed by the state; most of my life I understood Jesus’ death on a cross as a political death. However, the end result of a lot of schooling and mulling over […]| Joshua Lawrence Lazard
How do online interactions mirror societal norms? A recent Social Psychology Quarterly article reveals that even those online spaces that are collectively supportive against racism and sexism are rife with the sorts of limiting societal expectations imposed on racialized women in the offline world. Using interview data from 18 Black and Asian women, Paulina d.C. […]| Articles – Contexts
Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge social research accessible to general readers.| Contexts
Let me make myself clear, this post is not an opportunity for majority culture to attack black people, not even a little bit. With that in mind, I have noticed over the past few years a disturbing trend among people of otherwise marginalized groups. Specifically, mine. Ableism is rampant in the black community. Despite being […]| Crutches and Spice
You knew that there would be a time when I’d have to write this. At least that part of me you know, you had been pushing this part of me away towards the end, the one that needed to speak to express the unpopular. You didn’t like that part of me, but at least you’re […]| Crutches and Spice
A wonderful review written by Midori Friedbauer for the International Examiner (Seattle, Washington, USA) has been published! A powerful look into the invisible world of … Continue Reading New REVIEW of my BOOK by Midori Friedbauer| Dream of the Water Children: The Black Pacific
Welcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Vivaldi Jean-Marie, whose book An Ethos of Blackness: Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and Consciousness was published with Columbia University Press this September. You can read our excerpt of the book here. Get to Know Vivaldi Vivaldi Jean-Marie teaches in the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department at ...| sacredmattersmagazine.com
