Summer 2010- read up to today- entry 5

Tim Wise, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son- revised and updated edition, 2008- finished
Tricia Rose, The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why it Matters, 2008- up to p. 74
Michael Kimmel, Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men, 2008- up to p. 23

White Like Me proved quite an inspiring and useful memoir that I highly recommend. So far, The Hip Hop Wars is fantastic as well, an ambitious book that fairly assesses arguments about hip hop music and culture for their strengths and weaknesses. Guyland, at least from its introduction, seems that it will be far less revelatory than other literature I've read from Kimmel--specifically the essential essay, "Masculinity as Homophobia."

Summer 2010- read up to today- entry 3

In the last week, I have read:

Tim Wise, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, up to p. 126- revised and updated edition, 2008

In addition, I hope to read soon:

An article on themes in rock music criticism
Mariama Ba, Une si Longue Lettre (the French version of So Long a Letter)
Peggy Macintosh, "White Privilege and Male Privilege" (full-length essay- I think I'd previously read an abridged version)
Michael S. Kimmel, Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men
Essays from Black on White: Black Writers On What it Means to be White. ed. David Roediger