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  Reproductive Racism?

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  Amber Johnson Prairie View A&M University

  August 22, 2011

  I’m not convinced. Life is impossible without reproductive justice. Reproductive justice is impossible ... welfare policies, abortion restrictions, and criminal prosecution, outsiders continue to control the ...
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  Of Niggas and Citizens: Mobilizing Strategies on The Boondocks and the Rhetoric of Blame

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  Avi Santo Old Dominion University

  July 27, 2007

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  itself. One possible explanation follows Kobena Mercer's argument that people of color experience ... watching, which potentially brings the satirist’s critical insider/outsider position into conflict with the ...
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  You Can't Turn a Ho into a Housewife: Basketball Wives and the Politics of Wifedom

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  Racquel Gates College of Staten Island, CUNY

  September 26, 2011

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  You Can't Turn a Ho into a Housewife: Basketball Wives and the Politics of Wifedom reality TV and otherness Basketball Wives African American Curator's Note In this clip from the popular VH1 reality show, Basketball Wives, the cast confronts a k ...