by admin | Jul 13, 2006 | things that make you go hmm |
I said that I’d start putting my own research here. One of my specialties is black political ideology. How has support for black nationalism changed over time? How might we measure it? I wrote a paper differentiating support for Pan-Africanism from support for...
by admin | Jul 11, 2006 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Public Health, Public Policy, things that make you go hmm
A journal article published in the JAMA found that even though Americans spend double the resources on health care, they are still sicker than their British counterparts. Even after you take race and class into account. White executives in America are sicker than...
by admin | Apr 30, 2006 | Racial Politics, things that make you go hmm
In short, yes. Nick Winter recently published a paper in The American Journal of Political Science arguing that social security was in effect racialized in the exact opposite way as Affirmative Action had been racialized: In this article I argue that the framing of...
by admin | Apr 14, 2006 | Gender and Politics, Hip-hop, Pop Culture, things that make you go hmm
Within the subculture literature a number of scholars have talked about the virtual absence of women. Looking at the works that attempted to analyse the punk movement in Great Britain for example, it is almost as if girls weren’t present. No girls at the clubs,...
by admin | Apr 14, 2006 | Hip-hop, Pop Culture, things that make you go hmm
In the article “Keepin’ It Real–Black Youth, Hip-Hop Culture, and Black Identity” author Andreana Clay expands on the concept of “cultural capital” elucidated by Bourdieu by analyzing how black youth use hip-hop to authenticate...
by admin | Mar 24, 2006 | Hip-hop, things that make you go hmm |
What are the central issues, problems, I need to grapple with here? 1. How does hip-hop influence the political attitudes of youth? We know that hip-hop is an information source. Chuck D. even called it “black America’s CNN” although it’d now...
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