by kspence | Jul 18, 2015 | Black Politics, Media Appearances, NPR, Obama, Politics |
On Thursday July 18, David Greene of NPR’s Morning Edition interviewed me for about a half hour or so on the shift in President Obama’s rhetoric on race and racism. Although I haven’t performed the “for real for real” type of analysis to...
by kspence | Apr 21, 2015 | Black Politics, Black Popular Culture, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Neoliberalism |
Recently Michael Eric Dyson penned a strongly worded critique (severe understatement) of Cornel West in The New Republic, basically arguing West has become a thin shell of his former self. Dyson, who owes his career to West, is one of the many black...
by kspence | Jan 26, 2015 | Black Leadership, Black Politics
Last week, the nation celebrated Martin Luther King jr. Day. Like most historical figures with a significant paper trail, you can find several different Kings based on your predispotions. For example, here’s textual evidence for a black conservative King. The...
by kspence | Jan 18, 2015 | Black Politics, Politics, Pop Culture |
In what circumstances should we think of pop culture as political? What should we think of Selma’s Oscar snub, or Azealia Bank’s recent comments on reparations? What is a social movement? How would we know it if it existed? How would we...
by kspence | Jan 9, 2015 | Black Politics, Crime and Punishment
Above is a conversation between Fred Moten and Robin Kelley on #blacklivesmatter, moderated by Maisha Quint, an anti-prison organizer working in Oakland, California with the Eastside Arts...
by kspence | Feb 12, 2014 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Neoliberalism
Stuart Hall passed away on February 10, 2014 at the age of 81. Hall was one of the first theorists to understand the neoliberal turn, bearing witness to Margaret Thatcher’s brutal rule as well as the Left’s accommodation to that rule in the seventies. He...
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