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 | Sep 18, 2007 | Racial Politics, The Mass Media, Urban Politics
While I’m trying to work out the kinks of this book chapter. The New York Times will no longer charge for its premium content. Because of my university ties I didn’t have to pay for content, but I did have to go through a few extra steps that made it a...
by admin | Aug 14, 2007 | Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
Glen Loury asks the provocative question Why Are So Many Americans in Prison? (thanks to Earl for the link) His answer for many of us isn’t surprising. The fact that he got there in the first place probably is surprising to some of us given his black...
by admin | Aug 7, 2007 | Black Power, Racial Politics, Urban Politics
Given the last post, I ran across an article I thought folks might find interesting. Because many of us are so close to the events on the ground in places like Newark and Oakland we often miss the forest for the trees. This interview does a good job of setting the...
by admin | Aug 7, 2007 | Black Power, Public Policy, Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
A couple of stories (one of which I got from Earl) coincided with a bit of a chapter I’m working on for my hip-hop book. Reading the stories is in some ways like being in a time warp. Going back to 1989 more specifically:...
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