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Title: “What’s Sustainable?” Vegan&Vegetarian Black Men of Hip Hop Tell It Like it Is

Description: My talk I gave at Pacific Lutheran University on May 8, 2014 in Washington. I look at DJ Cavem, Bryant Terry, and Ashel Eldridge. Please note that my battery ran out about 10 minutes before the talk ended. This is the beginning stages of a book I am working out. It is very ‘introductory’ and I know I still have a lot more work to do. Below are the pivotal questions I am trying to answer.

How are black men of the hip hop generation responding to living in a nation in which structural racism, negro-phobia, speciesism, and white supremacist based moral system have been the norm since colonialism?
How does the Black vegan Hip Hop movement offer different ways of consuming, as well as being a ‘real’ man, from race-conscious, decolonial, eco-sustainable, and anti-specieist points of view?
How do prominent Black male Hip Hop vegans use Hip Hop to teach how food and health have been negatively shaped by corporate capitalism and a meat-centered industrialized food system?

Posted by Dr. A. Breeze Harper in Animal Ethics, Eco-Sustainability, Environmentalism and Challenges, Food Justice and Activism and tagged afro vegan, animal rights, breeze harper, Bryant Terry, dj cavem, earth amplified, pacific lutheran university, seasunz, sistah vegan, veganism

23 Apr 2014

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“G’s Up Hoes Down:” Black Masculinity, Veganism, and Ethical Consumption Remixed

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I’ll be giving a talk at Oberlin College at 7:30pm EST on May 2, 2014. I am super psyched because it is part of my new research for my new book. The ‘remix’ in the title was inspired by Bryant Terry’s new vegan cookbook Afro-Vegan. G’s Up Hoes Down was inspired by DJ Cavem’s song “G’s up hoes down.” I’ll be looking at both of these amazing men’s work.

If you can’t attend, don’t panic. I record and upload all my talks to this blog.

Title: “G’s Up Hoes Down:” Black Masculinity, Veganism, and Ethical Consumption Remixed.

Location: Oberlin College. Science Center’s Dye Lecture Hall on 119 Woodland St.

Time: 7:30pm EST

Description: Vegan mainstream rhetoric often falls into a post-racial mindset; that is, the assumption that since the Civil Rights Acts, racism and legacies of colonialism are no longer significant impediments to achieving equality in the USA. Furthermore, rarely does the vegan mainstream reflect on how structural racism shapes one’s logic, goals, and communication strategies around ethical consumption. For this lecture, Dr. Harper will explore how key Black male vegetarians and vegans are employing hip-hop methods to create race-conscious and decolonial approaches to vegetarian and vegan activism. These men are examples of alternative black masculinities, cooking up complex and complicated models of ethical consumption, environmental justice, and nutritional activism that you won’t find in the popular PETA campaigns or the bestselling books Skinny Bitch and Skinny Bastard.

Craig “Doodlebug” Irving (Left), Breeze Harper (Center), and DJ Cavem(Right)

Posted by Dr. A. Breeze Harper in Uncategorized and tagged afro vegan, animal liberation, breeze harper, Bryant Terry, dj cavem, hip hop, Oberlin College, sistah vegan, veganism

21 Apr 2014

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Afro-Vegan Book Launch Party and Bryant Terry: Video of Speech and Photos.

I love Bryant Terry’s spirit. What a truly awesome being with endless talent and dedication. At the beginning of April 2014, Terry’s book launch party for Afro-Vegan took place in Oakland, CA at Impact HUB. It was a packed house of lots of people of color supporting this brother’s 4th book. Below is the video of Bryant giving his speech, along with two other folk whose Richmond, CA work inspire him. I also attended the event with my family and took photos.