We can’t fully understand American slavery and its legacy without mining the diversity of enslaved experience in scholarship as well as film.
Tamara Winfrey Harris
Tamara Winfrey Harris is a writer who specializes in issues of race and gender, and their intersection with pop culture and politics. She is working on a book about the racist and sexist underpinnings of the "black marriage crisis."
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Why Liberals Love TV’s Fictional Conservatives
ABC’s Scandal makes us root for a fundamentally despicable version of American democracy led by a cabal of corrupt Republicans run amok. Should we feel guilty?
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A Twerk Too Far
Somewhere in America Miley Cyrus is appropriating black culture, but she’s certainly not the only artist—we’ve got a long and tangled history of it.