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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    Five Artsy Things to See This Week, Including Big Holes and Female High Jumpers

    This week's list offers artists making rules, breaking rules or trying to figure out what the rules even are. It also includes a walking tour. 5. War against the photograph Around 2004, painter David Hockney, famous for slick, smart renderings of SoCal swimming pools and uncomfortably posed sociali ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    'Stop SB 48' Doesn't Want California Students to Know About James Baldwin?

    James Baldwin​In the history of the world, gays and lesbians have always made important contributions to many different societies. One such person is James Baldwin, the American novelist, essayist, and social critic. ''I would place him very high among writers,'' Benjamin DeMott, professor o ... More >>

  • Music

    November 4, 2010

    2Pac and Walt Whitman

    Two professors anthologize the best rap lyrics

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    Reagan Grandson's Arrest Compared To That of Henry Louis Gates Jr.

    Papa Michael Reagan.​After his son was arrested outside his San Fernando Valley home, Michael Reagan, himself the son of late President Ronald Reagan, compared his progeny's arrest to that of black Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. outside his own home in July. "Where is the American Ci ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    Stage Raw: Pee Wee Forever?

    The LATEST NEW REVIEWS are embedded in this week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, this week's STAGE FEATURE on Hair, at the Chance TheatrePEE WEE FOREVER?​Photo by Greg GormanNot quite "forever," but Stage Raw just learned that The Pee Wee Herman Show, originally slated for Nov. 8 - 29 at the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    Obama 'Joker' Poster: It's All About Race

    Ted Soqui​Was it something I said?Early last week I posted a brief blog noting the appearance of those "Obama Socialism" posters, in which the president's face is made up to resemble Heath Ledger's Joker character from The Dark Knight. That Batman-film derived image had been Photoshopped by Firas ... More >>

  • Columns

    March 27, 2008

    Off-White Like Me

    Biracial? Tell it to the hosts of Fox and Friends. Obama is black.

  • Art+Books

    July 1, 2004

    What Lies Beneath

    Carl Hancock Rux on Asphalt, war-torn cities and the state of black literature in America

  • News

    March 4, 2004

    Miller's Crossing

    Can a pro-Bush comedian get laughs?

  • Columns

    February 28, 2002

    Visible Men

    Can a pro-Bush comedian get laughs?

  • News

    August 31, 2000

    Blue Like Me

    On race and depression

  • Film+TV

    July 8, 1999

    Summer of Spike

    On Lee's First "White" Film, the Elusive "Black" Audience and Other Gray Areas

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