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 | Jul 24, 2007 | Campaigns and Elections, Crime and Punishment, Democracy, The Mass Media
It isn’t that hard to think about how the prison industrial complex influences people who are caught up in it. Mothers and fathers have to pay massive loot to talk to their kids in jail, to even get to the prisons in some cases. Jails themselves are focused much...
by admin | Jul 20, 2007 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, NPR, Pop Culture, The Mass Media |
This week’s barbershop segment came out today. On the docket? We talked about immigration policy, about Michael Vick’s legal troubles, and we talked about John Edwards’ campaign and his anti-poverty platform. Makes for interesting...
by admin | Jul 14, 2007 | Democracy, Urban Politics |
This year represents the 40 year anniversary of the Newark and Detroit riots. Next year will be the 40 year anniversary for Baltimore. One of my former students forwarded me a discussion that relates to our discussions about the local and the global. Amy Goodman of...
by admin | Jul 12, 2007 | Black Leadership, Culture, Democracy, Urban Politics |
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzeezIsTZ_o[/youtube] I’ve already linked to part of Bill Moyers’ interview with Grace Boggs. But the video expands on some of it, and emphasizes a couple of points that bear consistent repetition:1. We have to...
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