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Then-Ph.D. student A.D. Carson, protests at Clemson University in 2016 with faculty, staff and students.

Then-Ph.D. student A.D. Carson, protests at Clemson University in 2016 with faculty, staff and students.

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Hip-hop can document life in America more reliably than history books, by A.D. Carson

Describing my 2017 appointment as a faculty member, the University of Virginia dubbed me the school’s “first” hip-hop professor. Even if the job title and the historic nature of the appointment might have merited it, the word was misleading.