by admin | Feb 28, 2011 | Black Family, Black Power, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics |
We all know the story of how cities like Detroit, Gary, and Baltimore became predominantly black. First the businesses fled, then whites with the ability to move to the suburbs. But the black middle class also took flight, and around 1990 or so there was a second...
by admin | Feb 24, 2011 | Afrofuturism, The Mass Media |
Photo by CoolB047I’ve been reading comic books since 1976. The worlds of DC and Marvel are as essential to my life as basketball, house music, and politics. About twenty years ago, around the time I entered grad school, there was a comic-book revolution of sorts. A...
by admin | Feb 22, 2011 | Education, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics |
Photo by “CAVE CANEM” The Detroit Public School system has been under something like receivership for a while now. Draining students like a sieve (over 80,000 students lost in the last decade), with evidence of significant fiscal mismanagement and corruption, the...
by admin | Feb 21, 2011 | Neoliberalism |
Photo by losinghandThis morning EJ Dionne makes the case that the Tea Party narrative on taxes and the government is now the national narrative. In the wake of significant levels of unemployment, rising levels of wealth inequality, and anxiety, the most important...
by admin | Feb 16, 2011 | Neoliberalism |
Day 178 2010 365, originally uploaded by LesterSpence. Part of a series. I don’t normally buy into the notion that we’ve got to counter “negative” images with “positive” ones, largely because both are part and parcel of a move that smoothes over critical aspects of...
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