by admin | Oct 3, 2007 | Culture, Hip-hop, Pop Culture |
Picked this up through Open Culture: [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/3zJqihkLcGc” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Needless to say…this is hip-hop.
by admin | Oct 1, 2007 | Black Power, Crime and Punishment, Democracy, Education, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
Yesterday while writing about Jena, and Paris, I noted the role of the black media (talk radio, journalists, black bloggers) in rendering rural racism transparent. (As an aside I’d like to check on whether there has been an attempt to differentiate between...
by admin | Sep 30, 2007 | Politics, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
We already know that historically speaking whites in general and black elites want blacks to be damn near perfect in order to get the RIGHT of citizenship. We saw this here also with at least one black blogger (who shall remain linkless because I don’t want to...
by admin | Sep 30, 2007 | Black Power, Crime and Punishment, Democracy, Education, Politics, Racial Politics, The Mass Media
I’ve written here about brokerage politics before. The brokerage politics model is fairly simple. You’ve got a large body of “clients” that for whatever reason cannot attain some good using their own devices. So in steps a “broker”...
by admin | Sep 29, 2007 | Black Power, Crime and Punishment, Democracy, Education, Racial Politics, The Mass Media, Urban Politics
I’ve been wanting to write this for a while but this semester has been far busier than I thought it would be. One of the first sets of readings I had my Urban Politics class wrestle with was a set of chapters from the book Small Town in Mass Society. A...
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