May 2013
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Uprooting Anti-Black Racism: Desi-African Musical... →
While on the one hand we learn through Sikhi that all people are equal regardless of their race, caste, or gender, we simultaneously learn that we should not socialize with black people and certainly not date them. We learn they are not to be trusted, that we should keep our distance. We learn that they are unattractive and that we most certainly want to keep our (brown) skin as wheatish and fair...
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Q&A with Songstress Raveena Aurora →
Interview w/ Raveena Aurora over at The Aerogram.
You often speak about your heritage as a Sikh-American on your website and in other interviews? Why is that important to you to get out?
There’s not much representation in the mainstream media of Sikh-American artists. I’d be honored to be a positive role model one day for such an incredibly strong, peaceful, and loyal community — but one that...
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Punk in Burma: Cultural Appropriation & Resistance... →
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Riz Ahmed: actor, rapper, ranter →
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Lil Wil - My Dougie (video) →
© 2008 WMG My Dougie (video)
“The Dougie,” a dance popularized in California and the non-Southern US by Cali Swag District, was started by NOLA-born, Dallas-raised rapper Lil Wil. Both rap videos feature desis, but tell vastly different stories:
Years before university bhangra groups were naach-ing to CSD, desi parents in Texas nervously herded their children away from neighborhood...
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DJ Quik sampling Bappi Lahiri's "Thoda Resham... →
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April 2013
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March 2013
26 posts
Saad Tasleem Was In A Punk Band →
I’m just going to place this here.
Holi hai →
The post may be a day late, but the song is timeless.
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Tweet from T-Pain (@TPAIN)
T-Pain (@TPAIN) is in India whipping hos. (Hoes?) & then he instagramed it:
I fuckin told you I was gonna ride in one of these things before I left Mumbai. Not only did i ride in… http://t.co/dKoGuaytcL (https://twitter.com/TPAIN/status/315157688621359105)
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JAI PAUL MIXTAPE LEEEEEEAK!!!! →
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Music fills the infinite between two souls.
– Rabindranath Tagore (via samsaranmusing)
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Khoon: An Ode to the Shia Community →
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