Chauncey DeVega
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Birthday
- September 11
- Title
- A (Sometimes) Respectable Negro
- Bio
- Editor and Founder of the blog We Are Respectable Negroes
He has been a guest on the BBC, Ring of Fire Radio, Ed Schultz, Joshua Holland's Alternet Radio Hour, the Burt Cohen show, and Our Common Ground.
His essays have been featured by Salon, Alternet, the New York Daily News, and the Daily Kos.
The NY Times, the Daily Beast, the Utne Reader, Washington Monthly, Slate, and the Week (among others) have featured his expert commentary and analysis on race, politics, and popular culture.
MY RECENT POSTS
- A Country of Strangers: Racial
Framing and Superstorm Sandy
November 05, 2012 04:17PM - What are the Real Burdens
Faced by a Black President?
October 18, 2012 04:53PM - Forget Boxing, the 2012
Election is More Like Pro
Wrestling
October 12, 2012 01:23PM - That Was No Rope-a-Dope: Obama
Got His Butt Kicked by Romney
October 04, 2012 12:26PM - The "Obama Phone" Lady vs.
Angry White Men with Guns
October 02, 2012 10:56AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “@L. There is so much
hostility and animus out
there, the
implicit bias that
is lo…”
October 18, 2012 06:39PM - “@MS. Thanks, how kind.
Appreciated.”
October 04, 2012 07:34PM - “The personal is
political as I keep saying on
these matters.
Funny, how few
folks…”
August 14, 2012 05:58PM - “@all thanks for your
comments and interventions
against the
mouth breathers
who i…”
August 12, 2012 10:04PM - “Every little effort
helps. We shall see.”
May 11, 2012 03:32PM
Chauncey DeVega's Links
Harvard Law School's Racist Email Problem
I will leave this one for you all to discuss.
Apparently, insert gasp and shock, some relatively smart folk (Question: Is being book smart the same as being intelligent?) think that black people are genetically inferior to white people. And guess what? Said person--Miss Stephanie Grace…
Eurocentrism Reigns Supreme: Arizona Bans Ethnic Studies
States that the Legislature finds and declares that public school pupils should be taught to treat and value each other as individuals and not be taught to resent or hate other races or classes of people.
Provisions
States that the
Legislature finds and declares that public sc… Read full post »
"Black Privilege" in the Age of Barack Obama
"I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group."
The election of Barack Obama has been difficult for many Americans. As Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Pat Buchanan (among many others) have bra… Read full post »
Ending the Slavery Blame Game?
Last night I met up with some nationalist brothers at the local bar. I had met a colleague and we discussed the definition of violence and if Malcolm X was indeed a "liberal democratic thinker" in the tradition of Hobbes, Locke, and the Federalists. After he left, a… Read full post »
The Right wing media and the Tea Parties are playing chess while the Left and the mainstream media are playing checkers.
While they can be disparaged as being narrow minded ideologues possessed of an authoritarian personality, Conservatives in the U.S.--and the extreme Right wing that…
Of Tea Parties and Virginia's Confederate History Month
Entertaining a Satirical Question: Is Glenn Beck Possessed?
How Low Can You Go: Barack Obama, Rapist of Freedom?
When I saw this cartoon, I shook my head. If there ever was an example of a simultaneously "neutral" and "provocative" editorial cartoon that stinks of racism then this is it.
Rape allusions? Check. Allusions to the myth of the black rapist? Check. Intentional provocation? (and denial…
Concept: Cognitive Dissonance
In 1957, Leon Festinger published a theory of cognitive dissonance, which has changed the way psychologists look at decision-making and behavior.[1] At its heart, cognitive dissonance theory is rather simple. It begins with the idea of c… Read full post »
A College Classroom Becomes An Arrest Scene-Is this Racism?
With access to less than complete information, I would like to believe that I would have magically defused this situation and turned it into that pedagogical unicorn, the mythical thing educators call a "teachable moment." But in all honesty, I am unsure if I could have mustered…
Steele rejected the notion that the incident may make any association with the Tea Party Movement a danger.
“It’s not a danger,” Steele told NBC’s “Meet the Press on Sunday.” “It’s certainly not a reflection of the move… Read full post »
The Tea Party Crowd Discovers the Lie of Original Intent
Sometimes one has to pick a scab.
A question to my original intent, strict constructionist readers: Is the extension of "rights" to corporations as "people" under the Equal Protection Clause a perversion of the sacred cow that is "original intent?" Or is it in keeping…
Is the Oscar Winning Movie Precious Really Pathology Porn?
I am confounded as I try to make sense of film scholar Sheril Antonio and noted Black public intellectual Stanley Crouch's debating the merit of Precious--what is nothing more than a pseudo-monster movie disguised as melodrama.
And yes, I called that "cultural" document a monster movie b… Read full post »
Higher Ed in 2010: The Greatest Student Email Ever Written
I finished my teaching for the quarter today. After leaving class I
went into the bathroom. What did I see? A fifth of Jack Daniels
sitting used, spent, and helpless in the toilet. Is there any
better metaphor for the state of higher education with its
listless,… Read full post »
What Would a Black Militant Say about the 2010 Oscars?
The We Are Respectable
Negroes News Network (producer of such award winning
programs as the
White in America series (winner of a 2008 best Black Weblog
Award), and hard hitting exposes with
Jesse Jackson and
Pat Buchanan) is proud to bring you the latest installment in
our recurring… Read full post »
How Low Will They Stoop? Breitbart Compares ACORN to the KKK
Of Nooses, "Ghetto" Cookouts, and UCSD's Race Drama
There is no going back to the glorious Sixties.
I am more old school and confront power face to face--as opposed to during a parlay. But, I will indulge the younglings storming the offices of sympathetic administrators while they were out to lunch and thus there was no fear of…
A Historian Rebuts Glenn Beck's Sick Misreadings of History
Glenn Beck's sick fantasies are one part troubling political theater and one part a voice for the deep divisions in this country politically. His misreadings of history and politics are so profound--and dangerous for they encourage and legitimate a radical pol… Read full post »
Of Tea Parties, Black Conservatives, and Original Intent
There is always one black Conservative in the room when they have these events. I wonder if Ken Blackwell,
One of…
The Angry White Man Rides Again: Joe Stack Attacks the IRS
This is all too
easy. Tragedy
strikes and the mainstream media finds a
delicate and nuanced way to talk about an act of
domestic terrorism. Often folks, more specifically some White
folks and their allies, find a way
to discount any discussion of white privilege. Common sense
object lessons a… Read full post »
A Lesson in White Privilege: What if Sarah Palin Were Black?
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The impenetrable stupidity of Sarah Palin knows no boundaries. She wallows in mediocrity. Palin is the queen bee of a cult of personality where to be anti-intellectual is a trait to be rewarded. Ultimately, she…
Now Introducing The (Nouveau Minstrel) Tea Party Anthem
I love to share things that make me smile. As a positive byproduct of what can be depressing work, a personal and professional interest in the politics of race does encourage one to develop a keen appreciation for the bizarre and the absurd...
Thus, I can confidently… Read full post »
The Insurgent Whiteness Of Vanity Fair Magazine in 2010
… Read full post »
One Nation Under a Corporate Groove: SCOTUS and Free Speech
As Brother Malcolm said, "Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research."
This is the "progressive" dilemma in a bucket--a black president not beholden to a "black agenda"; institutional forces such as transnational corporations whose interests are NOT those of…
Online Dating in Black and White: Is Race a Variable?
I am a wanderer of these Internets. One of my daily
stops on my sojourn through cyberspace is a site called Erosblog. I
do not as a rule repost information from other sites. But, for this
I will make an exception. Today, Erosblog had a great story about a
black/… 
Kerry Lauerman
Joan Walsh
Salon.com