by admin | Oct 4, 2007 | Crime and Punishment, Education, Racial Politics |
Kimberly Wilder is a member of the Green Party of New York, and is an education advocate AND activist. She wrote a piece on Jena from her standpoint as both a white progressive and an education advocate and gave me a heads up about it. A quote: One piece of logic...
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...
by admin | Sep 27, 2007 | Neoliberalism |
Black dada nihilismus Ego Trippin Leda, After the Swan
by admin | Sep 23, 2007 | Black Family |
The first gap is the gap between black and white children in school achievement, covered here. (I’ll likely make a pdf of it and try to remember to include it later because the link will likely dissolve within a week or two.) The second is the earning gap...
by admin | Sep 18, 2007 | Racial Politics, The Mass Media, Urban Politics
While I’m trying to work out the kinks of this book chapter. The New York Times will no longer charge for its premium content. Because of my university ties I didn’t have to pay for content, but I did have to go through a few extra steps that made it a...
by admin | Sep 17, 2007 | Black Power, Crime and Punishment, Public Policy, Urban Politics |
Here’s a model that won’t work, and a model that’s ass backwards from jump. (No I won’t argue about it…just like I wouldn’t argue with Submariner about the benefits of Omoxycillin vs. Penicillin.) So let’s think about a model...
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