by admin | Feb 26, 2009 | Black Power, Education, Neoliberalism, Obama |
If you’re connected to me via facebook you know I was updating furiously during the Obama speech. And I agreed with much of it. What he’s doing is nothing less than revolutionary–at least within the context of the last 10 plus years of American...
by admin | Feb 24, 2009 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, things that make you go hmm, Urban Politics |
After the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (your neoliberal government at work), some thought that one of the (intended) benefits was that racial politics and welfare would be decoupled. Or at the very least, the...
by admin | Feb 19, 2009 | Black Power, Obama, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
With Obama’s election, there was hope that the black media corps would have a much tighter relationship with him. And to an extent they have so far–remember we’re barely a month into his Presidency. Feels a lot longer because Bush pretty much...
by admin | Feb 2, 2009 | Crime and Punishment, Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
I’m prepping for class tomorrow. This semester I’m teaching Black Politics at the undergrad level and American Racial Politics at the graduate level. Tomorrow’s ARP lecture is about the role of race and racial ideology in the generation of knowledge....
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