by kspence | Nov 19, 2012 | Campaigns and Elections, Politics, Racial Politics
Last week, Mitt Romney had a conversation with his supporters, explaining to them why he lost the 2012 Presidential election. In that conversation, Romney blamed his loss on the "gifts" Obama gave key constituencies–Latinos, youth, single women,...
by kspence | Nov 14, 2012 | Black Family, Neoliberalism, Obama, Politics, Religion, Resistance, Urban Politics
One of the arguments Fred Harris and Michael Dawson both make in their books about post-Obama era black politics is that the "black church" is in decline, having succumbed to the prosperity gospel. Eddie Glaude went so far as to argue that black church was...
by kspence | Nov 13, 2012 | Black Politics, Neoliberalism, Politics, Urban Politics
With last week's election, Washington DC's City Council now has a slim 7-6 white majority. This bears watching, given that we'll probably see an increase in two phenomenon: White mayors elected to run majority black cities. I've already talked about...
by kspence | Nov 12, 2012 | Campaigns and Elections, Politics |
There's a benefit to having blogged longer than almost any other academic (and definitely any other blackademic) alive. With the shellacking they received, there've been questions about what the GOP should do now their Southern Strategy is dead in the water....
by kspence | Nov 9, 2012 | Campaigns and Elections, Politics |
I've already done a couple of election post-mortems. Here are a set of quick thoughts: 1. California could be the future In the seventies, California began the modern anti-tax movement with the passage of Proposition 13, a proposition that made it incredibly...
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