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  Righteous Anger and the Fear of a Black Planet in Taxi Driver

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  Greg Oguss University of Southern California

  March 20, 2008

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  a commentary on the “Black is Beautiful” era, which dates back to James Brown’s 1968 hit “Say It Loud (I’m ... Black and I’m Proud),” a song that became the soundtrack to the following decade, featuring ...
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  Multiracial Battlestar Galactica

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  Brander Rasmussen Birgit University of Wisconsin, Madison

  July 11, 2007

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  Multiracial Battlestar Galactica race Sci-fi Battlestar Galactica miscegenation otherness diversity Curator's Note In this moment of crisis, the camera pans over the faces of many key characters revealing a crew that includes men and women of many ra ...