From Ameriquests, a special issue on Manliness: Black American Masculinities, including Frank Dobson (Vanderbilt): Beyond Black Men as Breeders: White Men and the Commodity of Blackness; Thabiti L. Lewis (WSU): The Modern Athlete, Hip-Hop, and Popular Perceptions of Black Masculinity; Davarian Baldwin (BC): Pimps Up, Hoes Down?: The Amazing Misadventures of Blackface Masculinity; and Vania Penha-Lopes (Bloomfield): Work, Love, and the Family Involvement of African American Men. Kathryn A. Sweeney (Emory): Contact and the Continuum of White Women's Racial Awareness. A review of Posing Beauty: African American Images From the 1890s to the Present by Deborah Willis. Beverly Johnson on the psychology of beauty: An excerpt from Family Affair: What It Means to Be African American Today. Negritude 2.0: Obsessing about black beauty never goes out of fashion. From The Black Commentator, Sharon Kyle on the other N-word: Nappy. The roots of it: By styling her daughters' hair each morning, she was attending to something deeper than a beauty ritual. A review of Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip-Hop Feminist Pedagogy by Ruth Nicole Brown. Welcome to the dollhouse: A look at the line the new black Barbies won’t cross. Black babies as propaganda: Antiabortion activists target African-American women, again. Kids as young as 6 months judge others based on skin color — what's a parent to do? Behind your secret racism: An interview with Shankar Vedantam, author of The Hidden Brain (and more). 13 black truths: It's the 21st century, folks — you really ought to know this stuff. A primer on racism: The many uses of the word and how legit they are. Michael Kinsley on the decline of the racist insult. John McWhorter on retiring the term "African American".
