by admin | Jan 7, 2009 | Black Power, Obama, The Mass Media |
The New York Times features an article about the challenges the CBC faces in the upcoming term, what with a black President and all. The article has many of the challenges that journalistic accounts of black politics has–confusing age and ideology, ignoring the...
by admin | Nov 19, 2008 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Obama, Racial Politics |
I’ve gotten two good, and one poor response to my most recent video post. What I’m going to try to do is respond to them. I’ll get the poor response out of the way. My good friend Michael Bowen posted a video response. Rather than spend much time on...
by admin | Nov 11, 2008 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, Racial Politics |
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngKVNYzHS7Y[/youtube] Cross posted at Blackprof. Does your subconscious tell you that Obama is foreign? Proposition 8 Exit Poll
by admin | Oct 11, 2008 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Gender and Politics, Neoliberalism, Obama, Politics, Racial Politics |
Will electing Obama matter? If it were Clinton rather than Obama, will electing her have mattered for women? Of course the default answer is yes. For scholars like Walter Benn Michaels? No. In 1947—seven years before the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of...
by admin | Oct 1, 2008 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama |
Today’s Washington Post had what appears to be a no-brainer on the front page: “Blacks forming Rock-Solid Bloc Behind Obama”. Of course we are. We tend to vote democratic anyway, and the current GOP ticket leaves much to be desired for a liberal...
by admin | Aug 8, 2008 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Gender and Politics, Obama, Politics, The Mass Media |
Here’s an essay on black politics that contains almost every worn out cliché on the subject. I’m glad that the folks at Rust Belt Intellectual wrote a response. Feministing pointed out the absence of women, which is actually astounding given that the...
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