by admin | Jan 20, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual
Mat Johnson’s cooking with gas. I don’t know how I got put down with Niggerati Manor. Probably Tayari. Yes. Tayari. I see a great deal of promise in the explosion of Urban Fiction. But for writers like Mat and Tayari, this promise is fraught with…I...
by admin | Jan 18, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership, Black Power, Democracy |
Obama plans on running. One of my colleagues sends me an article. Turns out he doesn’t exactly move “civil rights leaders”. Now I put the term in quote because while the article talks about civil rights leaders in the aggregate it only quotes a few....
by admin | Jan 12, 2007 | Black Power, Culture, Hip-hop |
Just a question. For what it is worth, I don’t believe I ever have.
by admin | Jan 11, 2007 | Culture |
If you were to create a soundtrack for a Black Power class, what would you include? I’ve talked about my Black Power Fantasies course, and as it stands we’re going to have three layers (readings, videos, and music). I’ve got a handle on the first...
by admin | Jan 7, 2007 | Neoliberalism |
I am co-teaching a course entitled Black Power Fantasies with Stanford Carpenter an anthropologist who was recently hired at the Art Institute of Chicago. What we are interested in mining are the politics of black cultural production. To the degree we can think of an...
by admin | Jan 7, 2007 | Crime and Punishment, Gender and Politics, Sports, Urban Politics
I’m just asking. Last week Darrent Williams, cornerback for the Denver Broncos was murdered in a drive-by shooting. While others with Williams were wounded, it appears as if he was the target. While the car the killers allegedly drove was recently found painted...
by admin | Jan 5, 2007 | Neoliberalism |
A little over two months ago, I got into a car accident. Leaving the office at about 2:30am my Grand Caravan was hit by a kid driving an out-of-control White Jeep Cherokee. The kid groggily got out of the car and quickly fled the scene on foot. Come to find out...
by admin | Dec 29, 2006 | Neoliberalism, Politics |
I’m combining two posts that are related. Rachel is talking about the recent election of Deval Patrick in Massachusetts. Someone asked a group of Asians, Latinos, Whites, and African Americans to name their biggest concerns. Education, crime, jobs, and...
by admin | Dec 28, 2006 | Politics, The Mass Media
Picked this citation up browsing: Abstract: This article analyzes the high and sustained levels of popular support for President Bush’s policies during the Gulf War using a composite model of public opinion formation drawing on the rally around the flag effect...
by admin | Dec 22, 2006 | Afrofuturism |
I don’t know if they’d call it a manifesto, but what the folks at Democracy and Hip-hop have laid down certainly reads like one. Let me say at the outset that this is the type of critical work that we need to be creating and fighting about. This is the...
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