by admin | Mar 4, 2011 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics |
Photo by SEAMO – SEAMONSTERThe “natural” consequence of drastically cutting state budgets, drastically cutting federal support to cities, and then drastically cutting the ability of cities and towns to raise taxes themselves, is simple. Although the...
by admin | Mar 3, 2011 | Neoliberalism |
Photo by BlueRobotGov. Scott Walker is using the current state budget crisis as the cover to unveil a number of draconian reforms to Wisconsin state government. Crisis works here as it does elsewhere as a convenient opportunity to roll back democratic practices. If...
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...
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...
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