by admin | Jun 8, 2009 | Black Power, Neoliberalism, Obama, things that make you go hmm |
Even before Cosby gave his Brown vs. Board of Education speech blaming lower-income blacks for racial disparities in education, I’ve been interested in the power of black elites to shape and mold black public opinion. I threw up a little in my mouth when Obama...
by admin | Apr 14, 2009 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Democracy, Neoliberalism, Racial Politics, things that make you go hmm |
Zoltan Hajnal at the University of California, San Diego, has just published an article in the American Political Science Review that looks at the issue of political representation. Democracy at its best is supposed to distribute victories and losses fairly evenly...
by admin | Apr 13, 2009 | Hip-hop, Neoliberalism, things that make you go hmm |
I’ve already mentioned this on facebook, but my book Stare in the Darkness: Rap, Hip-hop, and Black Politics has been accepted for publication by the University of Minnesota Press. I plan to rewrite portions of it, to turn it in by August, for August 2010...
by admin | Mar 3, 2009 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, NPR, Obama, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm |
I’ve been meaning to get to this, but Buster brought up something in comments that I meant to address but haven’t had a chance to get to. In fact, because my blogging has been so light, in the wake of so much bloggable material, I’ve considered...
by admin | Feb 24, 2009 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, things that make you go hmm, Urban Politics |
After the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (your neoliberal government at work), some thought that one of the (intended) benefits was that racial politics and welfare would be decoupled. Or at the very least, the...
by admin | Dec 7, 2008 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Obama, things that make you go hmm |
Unofficially our unemployment rate is 12.5% the highest in recent record. And if we consider UNDERemployment rates we’re in even poorer shape. This is how Obama responds: On the heels of more grim unemployment news, President-elect Barack Obama yesterday offered...
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