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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...
Dr. Chi
Feb 3, 20205 min read
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“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...
Dr. Chi
Sep 7, 20192 min read
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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...
Dr. Chi
Jul 13, 20191 min read
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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...
Dr. Chi
Jul 10, 20195 min read
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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...
Dr. Chi
May 18, 20184 min read
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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...
Dr. Chi
Mar 22, 20184 min read
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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...
Dr. Chi
Dec 5, 20173 min read
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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...
Dr. Chi
May 24, 20175 min read
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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...
Dr. Chi
Jul 23, 20164 min read
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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,...
Dr. Chi
Jun 27, 20163 min read
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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...
Dr. Chi
Dec 28, 201512 min read
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“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...
Dr. Chi
Jun 11, 20155 min read
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Advice for the Young at Heart
Right now is not a good time to be in the U.S. We are watching how agents of the state kill unarmed African American men and get away...
Dr. Chi
Dec 8, 20143 min read
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