by admin | Dec 13, 2007 | Black Leadership, Education, Urban Politics |
The last post was uncited because I received its contents from an email I received. But I now know who the author is, and what he’s doing. Phillip Jackson is the Executive Director of The Black Star Project. Although as I noted in a response to him I think his...
by admin | Dec 11, 2007 | Black Family, Black Power, Education, Gender and Politics, Racial Politics, things that make you go hmm |
Got this from a brother on a listserv:America has lost a generation of Black boys There is no longer a need for dire predictions, hand-wringing, or apprehension about losing a generation of Black boys. It is too late. In education, employment, economics,...
by admin | Nov 18, 2007 | Black Family, Black Power, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Democracy, Racial Politics |
The first actually isn’t against black people as much as it is part of a long standing attempt to revise the historical record with Reagan. Lou Cannon, David Brooks, and a couple of others have attempted this mission. This is part of a much longer legacy and can...
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 | 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...
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