Shahryar Rizvi’s blog
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links for 2011-05-23
Race + Comics: DC Comics Monkeys Around Yet Again (tags: comics culture race media)
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links for 2011-05-22
Truth about school reform (tags: economy education)
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Scheduled delay for E3 2011 review
It turns out i’ll have my comprehensive exams during the week of the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2011. As a result, I will have to review the show after June 13.
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The Problem With… Beyonce’s “Run the World Girls” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night
The Problem With… Beyonce’s “Run the World (Girls)” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night. Journo confession: In the copy I sent in, I referred to Beyonce as “Mrs. Aaron Carter” instead of “Mrs. Sean Carter”. For those who don’t know, Aaron Carter is a young white pop star while Sean Carter is hip-hop superstar […]
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links for 2011-05-18
Study finds Netflix is the largest source of internet traffic in North America — Engadget (tags: internet movies film) 'Bridesmaids': Am I Doing Being A Woman Wrong? It's not so much that the character was unrecognizable—I've known women like Megan. It's that none of the humanity we see in her came from the script—it was […]
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links for 2011-05-17
USA: Native Americans Take Offense at Osama Nickname (tags: race culture war)
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The Problem With… Jessie J’s “Price Tag” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night
The Problem With… Jessie J’s “Price Tag” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night.
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links for 2011-05-12
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Black Privilege | The Atlantic (tags: race) Paper Tigers Asian-American success is typically taken to ratify the American Dream and to prove that minorities can make it in this country without handouts. Still, an undercurrent of racial panic always accompanies the consideration of Asians, and all the more so as China becomes the […]
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Obama kills Osama, relief and validation.
News and a Presidential press conference last night confirmed that Osama Bin Laden was killed in a raid on An compound in Abbotabad, Pakistan. As I listened to President Obama’s press conference, I felt not just relief that the prime public enemy was dispatched, but also relief from the fear that I carried of my neighbors […]
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links for 2011-04-29
Groklaw – Barnes & Noble Charges Microsoft with Misusing Patents to Further an Anticompetive Scheme Against Android – Updated (tags: law technology internet)
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