This week, skipping through npr, I found an article called “Capturing the Dark Side of Ellis Island.” It basically described a photo project conducted by Stephen Wilkes documenting the forgotten spaces of Ellis Island. The photos and essay along with it seemed straight out of an American nightmare. The signifier of the “melting pot”...
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Piss off, Twilight: Eclipse. Go to hell, Toy Story 3. Good riddance, Knight and Day. Let’s be honest. The only real blockbuster this summer is the World Cup. Football. Soccer. The world’s game. The beautiful game. But not America’s game. At this stage in soccer’s popularity in America, there are only two ways our...
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What you got? You think this is a hustle? I’m pretty sure you don’t know me or the Don Kix I rode in on. That shit talkin’ is straight bullshit. Fresh Kid Icing around the block. Oi. Please. (QUICK ASIDE: The Pharcyde’s “Ya Mama”. Possibly the best diss track of all time.) Personally, I...
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“And so, it was at Puerto Rico that I first made contact with the United States; for the first time I breathed in the smell of warm car paint and wintergreen, those two olfactory poles between which stretches the whole range of American comfort, from cars to lavatories, by way of radio sets, sweets...
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University of Wynwood
