The Cultural Legacy Of Nelson Mandela
Alyssa Rosenberg
▻http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2013/12/06/3029521/nelson-mandela
Mandela cast such an indelible image, and was so engaged with popular culture, that there isn’t really a definitive Hollywood vision of him yet
How ’Scandal’ Beat ’Homeland’ At Its Own Game
By Alyssa Rosenberg, ThinkProgress
▻http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2013/10/22/2811461/scandal-homeland
In other words, on Scandal, the romance, character development, and themes are aligned. On Homeland, they’re torn in different directions.
*_Marjane Satrapi On ’ Chicken With Plums ,’ ’ Persepolis ,’ and How She Was Inspired By ’Who’s The Boss’ and Ernest Lubitsch_*
By Alyssa Rosenberg on Aug 17, 2012 at 10:38 am| ThinkProgress
►http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/08/17/697181/marjane-satrapi-on-chicken-with-plums-persepolis-and-how-she-was-insp
Mitt Romney and the Fundamental Unseriousness of Cutting Arts Funding
Talking about cutting arts funding is a diversionary tactic, both in terms of the amount of money that would actually be saved by doing so, and in terms of a philosophical discussion about what the proper funding of government is.
By Alyssa Rosenberg on Aug 16, 2012 at 5:07 pm | ThinkProgress
►http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/08/16/700921/romney-arts-funding
A Complete Guide to ‘Hipster Racism’
"So racism went underground. Sure, you can’t say racist things anymore, but you can pretend to say them! Which, it turns out, is pretty much the exact same thing. There are a couple of strains of “ironic racism” making the rounds right now, and a couple of typical defenses."
►http://jezebel.com/5905291/a-complete-guide-to-hipster-racism
Understanding Hipster Racism: Lester Bangs’ 1979 “White Noise Supremacists”
►http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/04/hipster_racism_isnt_new_read_1979s_white_noise_supremacists.html
“But why is hipster racism, bigotry as an edgy joke for white people (and other people), so persistent? For answers, ThinkProgress’ Alyssa Rosenberg points us toward an 1979 Village Voice article by influential music critic Lester Bangs, titled “The White Noise Supremacists” [PDF] — and it’s sickeningly familiar. Bangs was an integral part of the late ’70s / early ’80s CBGB’s scene in New York City, a scene which has been posthumously hailed as a high point for racial harmony in which punk, rap, reggae, and new wave all came together. Bangs describes it less charitably as a place where white punks rebelled against everything, and quickly forgot why they’d gotten started. The result? What he refers to as “racist chic,” the employing of swastikas and epithets to get a rise out of some authority or other, and the resulting deeply homogeneous scene that offers no trouble to the actual-racist CEOs of the record industry.”
►http://www.mariabuszek.com/kcai/PoMoSeminar/Readings/BangsWhite.pdf
