by kspence | Dec 31, 2015 | Knocking the Hustle, Pop Culture
In anticipation of the new year I had a discussion with Marc Steiner about the books that had the greatest impact on me over the past year. A Brief History of Seven Killings (Marlon James), Black Silent Majority (Michael Fortner), Between The World and Me (Ta-Nehisi...
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 | Apr 28, 2014 | Black Popular Culture, Culture, Labor, Politics, Pop Culture, Sports |
On April 25, TMZ released a recording of Donald Sterling (owner of the Los Angeles Clippers) telling his girlfriend that he didn't want her bringing black people to his basketball games, this as the NBA itself is a predominantly black league, this as the Los...
by kspence | Jan 3, 2014 | Culture, Detroit, Imaging the City, Pop Culture, Urban Politics
Been pouring over Richard Iton’s work over the break and into the year not only for the upcoming Souls issue but also for a few projects I’m working on in 2014. I’m particularly interested in the role geography plays in black cultural production. In...
by kspence | Dec 11, 2012 | Black Popular Culture, Pop Culture
Working on my second book project on autonomy. It's a sequel of sorts to Stare in the Darkness, dealing with black autonomy projects and the means and logics black populations use to problem-solve black conduct. It began as an attempt to understand the...
by kspence | Dec 10, 2012 | Black Popular Culture, Culture, Hip-hop, Pop Culture
I was looking for information on Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite and I stumbled across the following brief interview with Branford Marsalis. Given Rolling Stone's recent release of their top 50 hip-hop songs of all time list I thought it...
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