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Interrogating pop culture.
We often brush off celebrity news as unimportant to real questions about race. However, L.A.-based writer Ernest Hardy's collection of published interviews and essays, Blood Beats: Vol. 2/The Bootleg Joints (RedBone Press), will convince you otherwise. In this follow-up to his first volume, Hardy offers yet another round of critical insights into how popular culture handles race.
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He scrutinizes the sanitized, white, heterosexual image of teen flick actor Freedie Prinze, Jr., who has laid claim at different times to having Puerto Rican and Italian ancestry. Hardy chides a multiculturalism movement in America by which "people-of-notable-color" are placed as tokens in films to signal that we have finally overcome our race ...
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