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He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.

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Political shenanigans in Washington have all but derailed interest in race, and I think that's quite unfortunate,

Michael Dyson

 Interest

The leader of Jar Jar's tribe is a fat, bumbling buffoon with a rumbling voice, and he seems to be a caricature of a stereotypical African tribal chieftain.

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Maybe this time around in reaching back to borrow from old movies, maybe Lucas or his people had trouble separating stereotypes from the sort of things that would help strengthen the movie.

Michael Dyson

 

We are consistently looking for tools that can save time and redundancy in our research process. For this leading-edge project, we need to deploy and integrate systems that reduce intensity of human effort and provide high quality data.

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There was something about his demeanor that suggested blackness and that suggested, more specifically, stereotypical blackness.

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I think that I immediately knew that there were some stereotypical elements to this character that suggested black culture -- the way he spoke, the way he walked,

Michael Dyson

 

(Jar Jar) seems to owe something to Disney characters. If you go back and look at cartoons from the '30s and the '40s and the '50s, they're full of racism. And it's deliberate. And Dumbo, the black crows, were meant to remind you of black people,

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it's just a cartoon.

Michael Dyson

 Cartoon

It's a cultural phenomenon. So, saying it's a cartoon doesn't dismiss it, doesn't denigrate it, it even makes it more powerful. Because why? Now it's getting into the unconscious or the subconscious and the minds of our children.

Michael Dyson