by admin | Jun 2, 2009 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Obama, The Future of the City, Urban Politics |
Fifty or so years ago what was good for GM was good for the nation. Yesterday GM officially went into bankruptcy. Shares of the stock are now worthless. The government is for all intents and purposes the virtual owner of GM. There are already signals they intend to...
by admin | May 28, 2009 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Neoliberalism, NPR, Racial Politics, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
…went much better than I expected. Listen here. Quick thoughts: An email comment from “Eric” noted that in the wake of Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination it’d be hard to ask taxpayers to continue to expend resources for the black...
by admin | May 26, 2009 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics |
Today on Midday with Dan Rodrick I’ll be talking with William Julius Wilson who released a new book More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City. Wilson’s work over the past thirty years has defined the discussion on poverty both in academic...
by admin | May 19, 2009 | Afrofuturism, Neoliberalism, The Future of the City |
That’s all I want to know. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74cO9X4NMb4[/youtube]
by admin | May 5, 2009 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics |
“It’s kind of dehumanizing,” Mr. Brewster-Streeks said of the experience. “They see you as a certain kind of person. We’ve never been that certain kind of person.” via More Middle-Class New Yorkers Fall Behind on Rent and Face Eviction – NYTimes.com. So what...
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...
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