by admin | Apr 8, 2011 | Black Power, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism |
Later today I’m giving a talk on labor and racial inequality as part of a conference on human rights and the city. Particularly given what’s going on in Wisconsin and the rest of the country this subject is incredibly important. The take home points: When...
by admin | Apr 6, 2011 | Neoliberalism |
Day 146 2010 365, originally uploaded by LesterSpence.
by admin | Mar 30, 2011 | Culture, Neoliberalism, Pop Culture |
Photo by What WhatMy next book begins with the JayZ quote “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business man.” Although I don’t use the quote in Stare in the Darkness (OUT SOON!) I thought it captured the neoliberal ethos perfectly. JayZ knows...
by admin | Mar 25, 2011 | Black Power, Neoliberalism, Racial Politics |
The 2010 census findings are beginning to trickle out. Blacks are leaving the North, but let’s not get it twisted, what they’re really doing is leaving the Rustbelt…and New York City. Blacks migrated to the north en masse in the Great Migration to...
by admin | Mar 8, 2011 | Education, Neoliberalism |
Photo by chadinbrWell…not really. I think I’ve been getting a little bit better at catchy titles though. Paul Krugman makes an argument that I’ve been struggling with not just as a scholar interested in this period, but as a parent of five children....
by admin | Mar 4, 2011 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics |
Photo by SEAMO – SEAMONSTERThe “natural” consequence of drastically cutting state budgets, drastically cutting federal support to cities, and then drastically cutting the ability of cities and towns to raise taxes themselves, is simple. Although the...
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