by admin | Apr 14, 2009 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Democracy, Neoliberalism, Racial Politics, things that make you go hmm |
Zoltan Hajnal at the University of California, San Diego, has just published an article in the American Political Science Review that looks at the issue of political representation. Democracy at its best is supposed to distribute victories and losses fairly evenly...
by admin | Feb 19, 2009 | Black Power, Obama, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
With Obama’s election, there was hope that the black media corps would have a much tighter relationship with him. And to an extent they have so far–remember we’re barely a month into his Presidency. Feels a lot longer because Bush pretty much...
by admin | Feb 2, 2009 | Crime and Punishment, Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
I’m prepping for class tomorrow. This semester I’m teaching Black Politics at the undergrad level and American Racial Politics at the graduate level. Tomorrow’s ARP lecture is about the role of race and racial ideology in the generation of knowledge....
by admin | Dec 16, 2008 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Education, Neoliberalism, Public Policy, Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
Roland Fryer has been working on a program that pays children for academic success for a while now, and its been rolled out in Chicago, New York City, and Washington D.C. even though research argues that it does little to nothing to reduce the achievement gap. For all...
by admin | Nov 23, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Obama, Public Policy, Racial Politics |
The last few cabinets have been remarkably diverse compared to the ones preceding them. Clinton had the most diverse administration in history, and I believe that Bush followed that up. We’re now getting some sense about Obama’s leaks and already some are...
by admin | Nov 19, 2008 | Black Leadership, Campaigns and Elections, Obama, Racial Politics, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
[googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2988926453902779335&hl=en[/googlevideo] Crossposted at Blackprof.
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