Black Power Fantasies 2007

I am co-teaching a course entitled Black Power Fantasies with Stanford Carpenter an anthropologist who was recently hired at the Art Institute of Chicago. What we are interested in mining are the politics of black cultural production. To the degree we can think of an...

Death, Blogging, and the New Year

A little over two months ago, I got into a car accident.  Leaving the office at about 2:30am my Grand Caravan was hit by a kid driving an out-of-control White Jeep Cherokee.  The kid groggily got out of the car and quickly fled the scene on foot.  Come to find out...

Taxes are good for you

I’m combining two posts that are related. Rachel is talking about the recent election of Deval Patrick in Massachusetts. Someone asked a group of Asians, Latinos, Whites, and African Americans to name their biggest concerns. Education, crime, jobs, and...

NYPD Surge Drill (You Tube)

(Updated 12.15.06) Check out this video: (I removed the Youtube video because Firefox 2.0 users and Safari users had trouble.) This one may be more representative. Check it out as well. The relationship between police and citizens in urban spaces with large non-white...