Reacts to it and grapples with it. So today i want to frame our discussion around a couple of quotations. The first is from the anthropologist and fox. Fox writes, Country Music is widely described in racialized terms. Assures sins of its essential badness is frequently framed and racial terms. For many cosmopolitan americans, especially country is bad music because it is widely understood to signify an explicit claim to whiteness. Not as an unmarked mutual condition as locking or trying to shed race, but as marked of cultural identity. Bad whiteness, and redeem by ethnicity, folklore authenticity, progressive politics or than no plus a bleach of elites. I want us to think about that, Country Music as articulating current being this type of marked white particularity. So thats the first quote, the second. Its from the writer and historian roxanne dunn bar, and her book red dirt. Which is a great memoir of growing up in oklahoma, she writes. Country music, wrote patriotism, evangelism,
Anthropologist aaron fox, and fox writes Country Music is widely disparaged in racialized terms and assertions of its badness are frequently framed in specifically racial terms. For many cosmopolitan americans specifically, country is bad music because its precisely understood as a claim to witness, not as a condition of lacking or trying to shed race, but as a marked foregrounded claim of cultural identity of bad whiteness, unredeemed by ethnicity, progressive politics or elite musical culture. So i want us to think about that. Country music as articulating, conveying this type of very marked white particularity. Thats the first quote. The second is from the writer and historian Roxanne Dunbar ortiz, and her book red dirt which is a great memoir of growing up in oklahoma. She writes Country Music, evangelism, romanticism, patriotism, and White Supremacy have been able to coalesce my people, the descendants of the original settlers as a peoplianited despite class differences or social
Facebook has calls increased for the social media giant to do more to block racism and hate speech. Below the u. K. And u. S. Have joined a chorus of criticism directed at china after it imposed a sweeping new National Security law on hong kong the 1st arrests were made under the legislation earlier on wednesday when thousands of people took to the streets to mark 23 years since the territory was controlled by britain critics say Political Freedoms and Civil Liberties guaranteed by a pact made at the time have now been destroyed sarah clarke reports from hong kong. Despite the searing heat and defying a police ban thousands of protesters marched to test the new National Security the legislation was fast tracked in record time in beijing and in acted on july the 1st the 23rd anniversary of britains handover to chinese rule as sad as it makes me say so far it is yes china is china its all gone home gone its china as of today 1st of july its a sad day but thats what it is but ill still ta
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Facebook pressure on the social media giant to do more to block racism and hate speech. Below the u. K. And u. S. Have joined a chorus of criticism directed at china after it imposed a sweeping new National Security law on hong kong the 1st arrests were made under the legislation earlier on wednesday when thousands of people took to the streets to mark 23 years since a territory was controlled by britain critics say Political Freedoms and Civil Liberties guaranteed by a pact made at the time have now been destroyed so cock reports from hong kong. Despite the searing heat and defying of police ban thousands of protesters marched to test the new National Security the legislation was fast tracked in record time in beijing and in acted on july the 1st the 23rd anniversary of britains handover to chinese will as sad as it makes me say so far it is yes china is china its all going home its china as of today 1st of july its a sad day but thats what it is but ill still take the streets i still