by kspence | Apr 2, 2015 | Knocking the Hustle |
Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics represents an attempt to examine the neoliberalisation of black politics. While there have been books written on neoliberalism before, as well as books on black politics, this is to my knowledge the...
by admin | Oct 5, 2023 | Neoliberalism
I’m not doing the students good if they’ve seen a film 10 million times already. I’m trying to introduce them to things. I’ll say, “You know there was some good s— made before you were born. And it might be black-and-white.” And “On the Waterfront” is one of my...
by admin | Oct 3, 2023 | Neoliberalism
White Collar Crime prosecutions at all time low. It seems to me that there is a massive decline today in compassion and in moral courage. And I think that, in some ways, both are connected. On social media, there’s an expectation that you will not get compassion: You...
by admin | Sep 29, 2023 | Neoliberalism
I’ve been following the Detroit Lions almost all of my life–I write “almost” because I don’t have memories of any games before 1979 or so. I’ve lived in two cities with better teams–I lived in St Louis when the Rams moved...
by admin | Sep 28, 2023 | Neoliberalism
This week a number of journalists have written on the fiscal challenges of the BU Antiracist Center. After having received millions of dollars in support the center has laid off a number of its staff members and is now undergoing investigation. I’d turn those...
by admin | Sep 28, 2023 | Neoliberalism
Been thinking about coming back to writing on the internets. Long story short I wrote one of the first if not the first social science blogs for a while, then transitioned to public writing through sites like Africana.com and Blackvoices.com and then after that to...
by kspence | Jan 24, 2017 | Neoliberalism
On September 11, 2001 I was a 32 year old professor at Washington University in Saint Louis, making a left turn onto Forest Park on the way to work. As I listened to The Tom Joyner morning show Joyner and his crew made to joke about a plane flying into the...
by kspence | May 23, 2016 | Black Studies |
A few weeks ago I listened to a WDET interview with Errol Henderson on the 45th anniversary of the development of black studies. Check it out. In the wake of the rise of black student protests over the past few years, more than a few of us have been thinking about...
by kspence | Apr 26, 2016 | Black Popular Culture
“Art among us blacks has always been a statement about our condition, and therefore it has always been political.” —Ossie Davis Richard Iton’s In Search of the Black Fantastic is one of the most important book written about popular culture and politics ever written....
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