Dr. Chi
Squid Game: Why It Resonates around the Globe
As a new Kdrama lover, I feel vindicated seeing that Squid Game was the most-watched show of all time on Netflix. But as a sociologist, I...
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Dr. Chi
Jun 9, 20211 min
Welcome to my blog!
This is where I share my musings about the world….
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Dr. Chi
Mar 9, 20214 min
Faking the Funk: When White Women Play BIPOC
Rachel Dolezal. Then, we learned about Jess “La Bombalera” Krug. Since then, there have been several examples of White women engaging in...
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Dr. Chi
Dec 23, 20203 min
Christian Americans Need to Worship God not Trump
Trump in a blue suit, white shirt, and blue tie with his arms outstretched in front of a sea of people at a rally in Milwaukee. Taken...
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Dr. Chi
Nov 23, 20204 min
Holiday Fight for Stimulus
Did you have a Happy Halloween? It seems like many Americans did, judging by the number of Covid-19 cases since the holiday. Over the...
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Dr. Chi
Jul 26, 20204 min
“The 1619 Project” and Black Resistance in a Time of #BlackLivesMatter
If you ask any American when slavery began in what became the United States, they will tell you 1619. This is thanks to the...
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Dr. Chi
Jun 1, 20203 min
Americans Need a Bailout, Not Multinationals
Despite our extremely high numbers of infections and deaths, states have been opening up beaches, restaurants, beauty salons, and other...
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Dr. Chi
Apr 27, 20203 min
Race and Counting ‘The Rona’
When it comes to African Americans and Covid-19, we have been swinging from one extreme to the other. As my African American friend...
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Dr. Chi
Feb 3, 20205 min
Two Very Blonde Latinas, Black Artist Boycott, and Erasure of Blackness in the Super Bowl
Black musicians boycotted the Super Bowl. Hell, even Afro-Latinx and Afro-Caribbeans boycotted the Super Bowl. So, the NFL brought in two...
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Dr. Chi
Sep 7, 20192 min
“Good Place” Chidi: An African Sellout
After three seasons, there is nothing African about GP Chidi. On the show, GP Chidi was born in Senegal to Nigerian parents. This is...
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Dr. Chi
Jul 13, 20191 min
Interview with New Books Podcast
I was interviewed by Brazilianist and anthropologist, Reighan Gillam (USC) about my book, Boundaries of Love! Listen to the interview...
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Dr. Chi
Jul 10, 20195 min
Being More ‘Open:’ Black Women Negotiate Dating and Marrying White Men
When I was studying at Harvard in the early 2000s, I had a black immigrant professor who had built part of his career gas-lighting...
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Dr. Chi
May 18, 20184 min
On Prince Harry and Meghan Markle: Interracial Couples and Their Multiracial Children Will Not Save
This weekend, people all around the world will be tuning in to watch the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, an American...
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Dr. Chi
Mar 22, 20184 min
Black Panther and “Growing Up African” in Chicago
I grew up in Chicago in the 1980s and 90s in the days of Christie Brinkley as the American beauty ideal. The Jherri curl was the...
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Dr. Chi
Dec 5, 20173 min
Dr. Stacia Gilliard-Matthews, Mi Amigona
She was my sister. As daughters of the Most High, we prayed for each other, sometimes to the point of tears. She introduced me to her...
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Dr. Chi
May 24, 20175 min
Rachel Dolezal: ‘Negra Frustrada’ (Frustrated Black Woman)
Race is a social construction. We have heard that phrase over and over again to the point that it has become a bit hackneyed. When I...
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Dr. Chi
Jul 23, 20164 min
Fiction: The Time It Never Happened
Oge had her very first ingrown hair, but she didn’t know it initially. Something was painful “down there” and it brushed against her...
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Dr. Chi
Jun 27, 20163 min
African Immigrants and the New Black Middle Class
Too often in our society, when the media links class and African Americans, they have their eyes on issues of poverty. Decades ago,...
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Dr. Chi
Dec 28, 201512 min
Paris During the Attacks
I went to a conference on “Mixedness” at the Sorbonne in Paris. On the last day of the conference, some of the conference participants...
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Dr. Chi
Jun 11, 20155 min
“Loving Black Men (Adorar Negão): Brazilian White Wives of Black Men”
The plus-sized supermodel, Tess Holliday, told The Guardian newspaper, “Black men love me.” This sparked an online firestorm, leading her...
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