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White Men Can’t Pass
Racial pigeonholing persists because the stereotypes of white and black basketball players dovetail so perfectly with the deeper archetypes that are at the core of how Americans think about race
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Rupp Arena of Contestation: With the Newbies of Americana
Now that the O Brother soundtrack has won Album of the Year, we can expect even more cultural tourism
A Classic Rock Format
That Bush doesn't hear his generation's soundtrack is evidenced once again by the shortcomings in his remarks about George Harrison's death.
World-Chicken in the First Frontier
Visitors to the annual World Chicken Festival in London, Ky., vie to win Col. Sanders look-a-like contests. Meanwhile, in Islamabad, another KFC burns.
Watching Baseball on TV
You can pay attention to baseball if you like, and the game will repay your attention. The same goes for so much else in American life
Consuming Death
Can the way we remember Aaliyah involve something more than saleable excess?
Easy to Enjoy, Impossible to Imitate
Black Music Month and Presidential Experience
Serious Business
Misleading drug ads have not only seduced the HIV+ viewer, but they have also shaped the American cultural imagination of who, exactly, people with HIV/AIDS are, as well as what life with HIV is like
Coming Heavy
To really ''make'' it as a Sopranos watcher, come with your full breadth of cultural references or don't come at all
Feelin’ Groovy
How the "90s dismissed the importance of being earnest - and how a new decade just might rekindle the schmaltz