Black Like Us? – a new exhibition at the Birmingham Museum of Art – looks at how blackness has been portrayed in American art through the years.
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Articles on African American culture
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Before being crowned the “King of the Blues,” a young Riley King honed his on-stage persona and made crucial contacts as a radio DJ.
Empire, a TV drama about a black hip-hop star turned music mogul, is breaking new ground by foregrounding ‘risky’ issues around race, sexuality and class.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University
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Director, Institute for Popular Music, University of Rochester
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PhD candidate in African-American Studies, UMass Amherst
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Assistant Professor of Church and Community Ministries, Baylor University
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PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of California, Riverside
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Professor of Language and Literacy Education, Georgia State University
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Music, Penn State
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Associate Professor, Tulane University
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Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Brandeis University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Old Dominion University
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Professor of English, Georgia State University
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Lecturer in Fine Arts, Universidade de Lisboa
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Olin Professor of English and American Studies, Emeritus, Wesleyan University
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Aberystwyth University
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Associate Professor, Performance, Toronto Metropolitan University
