by admin | Oct 29, 2007 | Crime and Punishment, Democracy, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
…and Baltimore is the Detroit of the East Coast, which is why I like it here so much. Knuckle Sandwich brought to light the recent history of homicides in Oakland, pointing to a San Francisco Chronicle series on the murders. What was most interesting to me was...
by admin | Oct 13, 2007 | Democracy, Racial Politics |
A few years back…probably more than a few years now, I asked George about an idea I had. I thought that what the blogosphere lacked was a central place where they could get information on up-to-date research regarding racism in its various forms. Research on...
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...
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