by kspence | Feb 24, 2014 | Neoliberalism |
Last week a New York Times columnist wrote a column criticizing professors for shirking their responsibility to the public by staying put within the Academy. American journalism is and for most of the 20th and 21st century has been reliant on advertising revenue. But...
by kspence | Feb 12, 2014 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Neoliberalism
Stuart Hall passed away on February 10, 2014 at the age of 81. Hall was one of the first theorists to understand the neoliberal turn, bearing witness to Margaret Thatcher’s brutal rule as well as the Left’s accommodation to that rule in the seventies. He...
by kspence | Feb 11, 2014 | Black Popular Culture, Mixcloud
[mixcloud]http://www.mixcloud.com/lesterspence/the-king-baraka-hamer-mix/[/mixcloud]
by kspence | Feb 10, 2014 | Neoliberalism
One of the things I promised I’d do less this year was work and live on Facebook. It sucks and profits off my productivity. With that said though there are people I’m in touch with I wouldn’t be in touch with without it, there are people I know that...
by kspence | Feb 3, 2014 | Education, Neoliberalism, Resistance |
On Martin Luther King Day in Ann Arbor, black University of Michigan students issued seven demands to university officials: We demand the University to give us an equal opportunity to implement change. The change that complete restoration of the BSU’s purchasing power...
by kspence | Jan 14, 2014 | Black Family, Education, Neoliberalism
A video of a toddler cursing out his relatives has made the rounds over the past few weeks, generating a moral panic that found the toddler (briefly) separated from his mother. The video, first posted by the toddler’s uncle but then REposted by the Omaha Police...
by kspence | Jan 6, 2014 | Black Family, Media Appearances, NPR
I’ve been doing less work on Tell Me More’s The Barbershop and much more work on their parenting roundtable over the last half of 2013. I was asked to participate in an end of the year discussion about hits and misses, what i was least and most proud of...
by kspence | Jan 3, 2014 | Culture, Detroit, Imaging the City, Pop Culture, Urban Politics
Been pouring over Richard Iton’s work over the break and into the year not only for the upcoming Souls issue but also for a few projects I’m working on in 2014. I’m particularly interested in the role geography plays in black cultural production. In...
by kspence | Jan 1, 2014 | Announcements, Black Popular Culture, Culture
[mixcloud]https://x.mixcloud.com/lesterspence/in-search-of-iton-remix/[/mixcloud] On Thursday, April 21, 2013, Richard Iton, Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University, passed away after a long bout with leukemia. In honor of his work,...
by kspence | Nov 12, 2013 | Education, Neoliberalism |
http://www.flickr.com/photos/unbowed/10819896453/ I’ve been on the road a lot–two weeks ago I was in Boston, last week I was in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and the next week I’ll be in Detroit and DC. I haven’t gotten much writing done over this time,...
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