The National Museum of African American History and Culture

Washington’s getting a new museum. In 2013 the National Museum of African American History and Culture will be completed. It will be located across the street from the National Museum of American History. While the architects had been chosen in April, today’s NYT ran a story called Tracing the Threads that Join America and Africa. [...]

PG-Rated Prejudice?

“Only this little teeny bit of Africa is a jungle. All of this is a desert. All this is a whole bunch of beaches, and waterfalls, and fishing places. And these are big cities with buildings and lakes and parks and schools. And up here is oil. (OIL!) And down here, there’s diamonds. (DIAMONDS!). And [...]

How do we categorize African-Americans?

In a class I took last semester while abroad in Cairo, Egypt, I found something striking about how the world views certain countries/nations and therefore the people from various places across the globe. The course I took was called “Third World Literature” and we discussed how third world literature is defined and perceived by writers [...]