by kspence | Jun 4, 2013 | Gender and Politics, Labor, Neoliberalism, Public Policy
Recently the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development published its Better Life Index. While the United States ranks at or near the top in housing access and in wealth, the United States ranks near the bottom in work-life balance. Derek Thompson...
by kspence | Jun 3, 2013 | Detroit, Imaging the City, Neoliberalism, The Future of the City, Urban Politics
A few years ago Time magazine bought a house in Indian Village (one of Detroit's wealthiest neighborhoods) and housed its staff there for a year to follow what appeared to be Detroit's slow death. And now with the presence of the Emergency Financial Manager...
by kspence | Jun 1, 2013 | Announcements
Hey. Haven't been around since March. I've been hit pretty hard by a few key losses that made it difficult for me to write (here) regularly. My dissertation advisor passed away unexpectedly earlier in the year. I wrote about how much he meant to me and...
by kspence | Mar 20, 2013 | Announcements |
I received notice last week that Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics was selected as the National Conference of Black Political Scientists' Du Bois Award given for the best book published on black politics within a two year period. I...
by kspence | Feb 25, 2013 | Black Popular Culture, Neoliberalism
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/33187727[/vimeo] I had a chance to check out Nelson George’s Brooklyn Boheme (BB) last week at Baltimore’s Creative Alliance Theater. I’d urge everyone interested in the concept of the creative class, in black late twentieth...
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