Links for Class
by admin | Sep 27, 2007 | Neoliberalism | 1 comment
by admin | Sep 27, 2007 | Neoliberalism | 1 comment
Thursday, July 7, at 7pm join me as I finally come home to Detroit to talk about Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics. Kim Hunter, 2012 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow, will also be reading from his forthcoming short fiction collection “The Official Report on Human Activity”.
Those links should make for a memorable class meeting.
Carl Phillips’ poem, “Leda, After the Swan,” encourages me to reflect on what Western Civilization and capitalism have done to and for the African and Africa every time I read it. When I first read it, I was reminded of Manning Marable’s How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America. And, ever since I read it, I’ve wanted to ask Phillips a question based on the last two lines of the W.B. Yeats poem, “Leda and the Swan,” to which his poem alludes.
Did we put on its knowledge with its power before its brutal beak dropped us into 20th Century America?