Race at the Interface: Rendering Blackness on WorldStarHipHop.com

WorldStarHipHop.com (WSHH) is an online video aggregating website that describes itself as “the premiere online hip hop destination” and a home for “urban media.” Yet, browsing through the site provides little clarity on what constitutes a hip-hop video or urban Internet space because of the disparate video content, the actual racial diversity of the performers, and the website’s generic design. As a result, WSHH’s taglines make a strange claim about the current state of the black musical tradition. Through close readings of the site, this article considers the architecture of this space of interracial exchange and identifies the interface as an example of Modernist architectural simplicity. I argue WSHH’s modular design is flexible enough to include non-black bodies, while remaining a black “urban” space. Thus, the site’s straightforward architecture paradoxically becomes the scaffolding of a much more complex, de-corporealized, and “shareable” blackness.

Livre généalogique de la race bovine canadienne.

Mode of access: Internet.

Earth, sea and sky, or, Marvels of the universe : being a full and graphic description of all that is wonderful in every continent of the globe, in the world of waters and the starry heavens; containing thrilling adventures on land and sea ...; embracing the striking physical features of the earth, the peculiar characteristics of the human race, of animals, birds, insects, etc., including a vivid description of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans and of the polar seas ...; together with the amazing phenomena of the solar and starry systems; the whole comprising a vast treasury of all that is marvelous and wonderful in the earth, sea, air, and skies /

Binding: blue cover, intricate illustrations in red and gilt on front cover and spine, marbled edges, floral endpapers

Le betail en Écosse. Race bovine; pratique d'élevage et d'engraissement des fermiers anglais, par Louis de Fontenay ...

Mode of access: Internet.

The rising son; or, The antecedents and advancement of the colored race.

"Representative men and women": p. 418-552.

Mémoire sur le monothéisme primitif : attribué par M. E. Renan à la seule race sémitique /

Mode of access: Internet.

The history and antiquities of the Doric race,

Tr. from v. 2-3 of the author's Geschichten hellenischer Stämme und Städte.

Philological proofs of the original unity and recent origin of the human race. Derived from a comparison of the languages of Asia, Europe, Africa, and America. Being an inquiry how far the differences in the languages of the globe are referrible to causes now in operation.

Appendix, A.-C.: 103, [1] p. at end.

Anglo-Saxon supremacy; or, Race contributions to civilization,

Mode of access: Internet.

Library of universal history and popular science; containing a record of the human race from the earliest historical period to the present time; embracing a general survey of the progress of mankind in national and social life, civil government, religion, literature, science and art ...

Issued under various titles.

Runes of the red race

Includes translations from the German.

The man of yesterday; a romance of a vanishing race,

Mode of access: Internet.

Samantha among the colored folks : "My ideas on the race problem," /

Blue cloth.

The island race,/

Mode of access: Internet.

The race question and the Negro, a study of the Catholic doctrine on interracial justice,

"Published originally in 1937 under title 'Interracial justice.' This new edition expanded and rewritten."