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Lit  Orienting the East U. Michigan Psychologist Richard Nisbett Asks: Do Asians and Westerners Think Differently? Village Voice In 1944, the eminent Chinese anthropologist and sociologist Fei Xiaotang accepted an offer from the State Department to spend a year working in the United States. Fei's stint began with all of the excitement and wonder promised by this still-rising star among nations, but as the months drew on he grew exhausted with the fidgety, restless nature that outlined every feature of American life. Go to article Foucault's Turntable Hip-Hop Scholars Bumrush the Academy Village Voice "Like Craig Mack said, here comes a brand-new flava in your ear!" Professor Todd Boyd is hyping his latest book, The New H.N.I.C.: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip-Hop (NYU Press), but it's not so much what he's saying as how he says it that captures the ear. His argument begins in a rich, methodical tone, elegantly scripting the fall of the previous generation alongside the rise of a new hip-hop ethos, occasionally punctuated with a line lifted from Jay-Z or Nas. Go to article Planet Rock: Charles Ahearn and Jim Fricke - Yes Yes Y'all Village Voice The history of hip-hop is as contentious as the history of America. You have a vague sense of who was there when it all started, but only hearsay divides the heroes and villains from the walk-ons. With the nerdiest of archival intentions, Seattle's Experience Music Project enters the fray with Yes Yes Y'all, a gorgeous and surprisingly heartwarming oral history that updates early-1980s B-boy documents like David Toop's The Rap Attack and Steven Hager's Hip Hop. Go to article |
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