by kspence | Dec 13, 2011 | Neoliberalism, The Future of the City
As we enter the second season of the nascent Occupation movement police have responded viciously. To loosely quote Stuart Hall, “the Empire strikes back.” At UC Davis, police officers sprayed protestors with pepper spray. In a video making the...
by kspence | Dec 8, 2011 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Education, Hip-hop, Urban Politics |
One of the questions I never asked in Stare in the Darkness (because it wasn't a "how to" book) was "how might we use rap and hip-hop progressively?" There are literally dozens of efforts across the world to connect rap and hip-hop to...
by kspence | Oct 7, 2011 | Neoliberalism, The Future of the City |
A few weeks ago for all intents and purposes, Baltimoreans re-elected incumbent Stephanie Rawlings-Blake after a fierce campaign that saw each candidate tackle the central questions of unemployment, poverty, and crime. The construction of a Baltimore Youth Prison...
by kspence | Sep 6, 2011 | The Future of the City, Urban Politics |
I’m going to begin today’s Urban Politics lecture with this question. What DOES a city sound like? It depends, right? If I think solely in terms of music even then it depends on the city. This is New York City:...
by kspence | Aug 17, 2011 | Culture, Marc Steiner Show, Political Ideology, The Future of the City, The Mass Media |
In this month’s appearance on the Marc Steiner Show, I discussed cultural nationalism with Jerome Scott, Founder and member of Project South: The Institute for the elimination of Poverty and Genocide. Since we discussed Manning Marable’s biography of...
by kspence | Aug 16, 2011 | Crime and Punishment, Hip-hop, Racial Politics, The Mass Media, Urban Politics
Of course we should’ve expected this. In the video below, David Starkey argues that the London riots can be traced to the growing power of black culture over Great Britain, and when he talks about black culture it is clear that what he really means is hip-hop...
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