Blackademia

I have started blogging for SMU's weekday paper The Daily Campus on their blog website The Daily Gaggle. My blog, entitled "Blackademia," addresses issues of race and racism in the majority white bubble at SMU, and how they project onto the rest of America.

This semester, I have chosen to base my journalistic endeavors on the arbitrary idea of race.

Why??

My boyfriend is black.

I grew up in a colorblind world, a world where race really is arbitrary. My parents, though they grew up in the midst of the racism of the 1970s, forced school integration and all, are surprisingly anti-racism.

They raised me to see people, not white people or black people or brown people, or any color of people. Just people.

So. The first time I walked around in the mall holding my boyfriend's hand, I was a bit shocked when people were more than a little unhappy about it.

The first time I ever saw The Boondocks.... That, too, was a momentous occasion.

Check out my blogs:

Welcome to Blackademia
What is the "Black Struggle?"

I also reviewed Ebony Magazine's pilot iPad App, featuring the 65th Anniversary Special Collector's Edition. It's a part of a tech blog that my Digital Journalism class is creating about news sources on the iPad.

Here's my entry:

Review of the Ebony iPad App


bE fABULOUS.