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 | 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...
by kspence | Nov 8, 2012 | Black Leadership, Black Politics, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Neoliberalism, Politics
When Fredrick Harris argued his New York Times piece (and t, that black elite have been more silent now than they ever were during the Clinton years, I thought he waxed a bit nostalgic. I was a graduate student during that time, and while during this period we...
by kspence | Dec 8, 2011 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Education, Hip-hop, Urban Politics |
One of the questions I never asked in Stare in the Darkness (because it wasn't a "how to" book) was "how might we use rap and hip-hop progressively?" There are literally dozens of efforts across the world to connect rap and hip-hop to...
by kspence | Aug 26, 2011 | Black Leadership, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual |
For those on the east coast reading this blog on 8/26 or this weekend, please take steps to make sure you’re safe given Irene. Government information can be found here. I am bracing for a storm at least as bad as the winter storms we’ve been...
by admin | May 23, 2011 | Black Leadership, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual |
This semester one of my seniors wrote a paper examining African American conceptions of freedom over time, using the speeches of various black elite to ferret out how they used the term. When we think of freedom now, thanks to the neoliberal turn, we usually think of...
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