I was invited to Texas A&M to give an address on anti-Black misandry a few weeks ago (scroll to 35 minutes for my talk) and was excited to take up the opportunity. The opportunity of which I speak was not so much about speaking at the campus, but working with my brother Dr. Tommy J. Curry on Black Male Studies.*
Race, Discriminatory Grooming, and Intersectionality in Employment Practices: A Brief Observation by T. Hasan Johnson, Ph.D.
Doing some research and thought I’d share a random bit of information. At a recent lecture I attended, a Black Feminist remarked that only Black women suffered workplace discrimination due to hair. In the name of intersectionality, she argued that because they were Black and women, that no other demographic lost their jobs due to this unique issue—including Black men—and thus Black women were uniquely oppressed.
“‘Get Out’ of It More Than Just the Apparent: Assessing Jordan Peele’s Assault on White Liberalism and the White Gender Paradigm” by T. Hasan Johnson, Ph.D.
Jordan Peele has a bright future in film. The directing, storytelling, and character-building alone was eery and off-putting, but the subject matter even more so. He also figured out how to get White folk to the theaters while performing brain surgery on race and gender in America. #Nice #Classic (more…)
A Black Masculinist Review of ‘Hidden Figures’ by Dr. T. Hasan Johnson
{{Spoilers…obviously}}
Let me first say I loved seeing Black women on screen doing something intellectually challenging and innovative… In short? I dug it, so let’s get that straight & out of they way. I also dug the humor of the film, from the sisterhood ribbing at pursuing a potential mate to the hilariousness of seeing someone explain how to use a mechanical pencil. (#NewClassic) Fortunately for musician and film producer Pharell, this film will go far to disassociate him from his “new Black” past…
“A Brief Observation on Denzel Washington’s Vision of August Wilson’s ‘Fences’ & Black Male Infidelity” by Dr. T. Hasan Johnson
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Noticed something about the representation of Black men in popular media. (more…)
Nate Parker, Nat Turner, and Nationalism(s): A Review of ‘Birth of A Nation’* by T. Hasan Johnson, Ph.D.
*See newly added addendum at the end.
“History’s potency is mighty. The oppressed need it for identity and inspiration; oppressors for justification, rationalization and legitimacy. Nothing illustrates this more clearly than the history writing on the American Negro people.” – Herbert Aptheker in John Henrik Clarke (Ed.), William Styron’s Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond (1968), p. vii. (more…)
