by kspence | Dec 6, 2012 | Neoliberalism, Resistance, Urban Politics
In an interview with the New Left, Jodi Dean (political theorist, professor at William Hobart and Smith Colleges, and author of the recently published book The Communist Horizon) was asked about what needs to happen to give left politics the opportunity to attack...
by kspence | Dec 3, 2012 | Neoliberalism, Racial Politics |
We don't have the neoliberal turn without creating some type of logic whereby people believe that economic losers deserve what they get, and that if anything we should use government to punish losers. Race and racism provide that logic. Here's Lee...
by kspence | Nov 27, 2012 | Class and Politics, Gender and Politics, Neoliberalism, Obama, Politics
I like the four hour bloc starting with Up with Chris Hayes and ending with the Melissa Harris-Perry Show. It's one of the most unique blocks on television on at least two dimensions–time and politics. Before these shows we didn't get two hour blocks to...
by kspence | Nov 14, 2012 | Black Family, Neoliberalism, Obama, Politics, Religion, Resistance, Urban Politics
One of the arguments Fred Harris and Michael Dawson both make in their books about post-Obama era black politics is that the "black church" is in decline, having succumbed to the prosperity gospel. Eddie Glaude went so far as to argue that black church was...
by kspence | Nov 13, 2012 | Black Politics, Neoliberalism, Politics, Urban Politics
With last week's election, Washington DC's City Council now has a slim 7-6 white majority. This bears watching, given that we'll probably see an increase in two phenomenon: White mayors elected to run majority black cities. I've already talked about...
by kspence | Nov 8, 2012 | Black Leadership, Black Politics, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Neoliberalism, Politics
When Fredrick Harris argued his New York Times piece (and t, that black elite have been more silent now than they ever were during the Clinton years, I thought he waxed a bit nostalgic. I was a graduate student during that time, and while during this period we...
Recent Comments