Three Tremés
I recently watched Faubourg Tremé, a documentary on the Tremé section of New Orleans, directed by Dawn Logsdon and co-directed and written by Lolis Eric Elie, a columnist at the New Orleans...
View ArticleDjango Unchained, or, The Help: How “Cultural Politics” Is Worse Than No...
Django Unchained, or The Help On reflection, it’s possible to see that Django Unchained and The Help are basically different versions of the same movie. Both dissolve political economy and social...
View ArticleResponse to Jay and Sustar & Bean
I recently read two quite similar calls for concern about Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis’s possible campaign for mayor: Scott Jay’s “Karen Lewis and the Long Arm of Lesser Evilism” in New...
View ArticleThe Real Problem with Selma
The only thing that hasn’t changed about black politics since 1965 is how we think about it. —Willie Legette (ca. 1999) Ava Du Vernay’s film Selma has generated yet another wave of mass mediated debate...
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Chuy for Mayor
Most readers will know that Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, a longtime progressive and respected elected official, after deciding to enter the mayor’s race at the urging of Karen Lewis, the Chicago Teachers Union...
View ArticleThe Case Against Reparations
The following article appears courtesy of The Progressive (December 2000). The notion that white America, however defined, owes reparations to black Americans for slavery and its legacy has been around...
View ArticleHow Racial Disparity Does Not Help Make Sense of Patterns of Police Violence
Some readers will know that I’ve contended that, despite its proponents’ assertions, antiracism is not a different sort of egalitarian alternative to a class politics but is a class politics itself:...
View ArticleOn the End(s) of Black Politics
The only thing that hasn’t changed about black politics since 1965 is how we think about it. —Willie Legette In its commitment to making visible and less pervasive the various forms of theoretical...
View ArticleSplendors and Miseries of the Antiracist “Left”
Longevity has its discomforts, to be sure. It also has its compensations, one of which is that decades of recurrent exposure to variants of the same genera of intellectual and political pathologies...
View ArticleMazzocchi and the Moment
In recent months I’ve been thinking a lot, more than usual, of Anthony Mazzocchi, longtime official of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union, leading presence in the movement for...
View ArticleDu Bois and the “Wages of Whiteness”
Prefatory Note Since the emergence of what has been known as “whiteness studies” in the early 1990s, proponents of the view that the white working class in the United States rejects a class-based...
View ArticleThe Role of Race in Contemporary U. S. Politics:
As comrades and political scientists, we engaged for more than thirty years in a basically tribalist debate over whether the post-segregation era black political class in Louisiana or that in South...
View ArticleBlack Politics After 2016
Many pundits and scholars have remarked on how the 2016 election reflected the significance of race in American politics. One strain of commentary to that effect contends that Trump’s election revealed...
View ArticleThe Real Problem with Selma
The only thing that hasn’t changed about black politics since 1965 is how we think about it. —Willie Legette (ca. 1999) Ava Du Vernay’s film Selma has generated yet another wave of mass mediated debate...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Chuy for Mayor
Most readers will know that Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, a longtime progressive and respected elected official, after deciding to enter the mayor’s race at the urging of Karen Lewis, the Chicago Teachers Union...
View ArticleThe Case Against Reparations
The following article appears courtesy of The Progressive (December 2000). The notion that white America, however defined, owes reparations to black Americans for slavery and its legacy has been around...
View ArticleHow Racial Disparity Does Not Help Make Sense of Patterns of Police Violence
Some readers will know that I’ve contended that, despite its proponents’ assertions, antiracism is not a different sort of egalitarian alternative to a class politics but is a class politics itself:...
View ArticleOn the End(s) of Black Politics
The only thing that hasn’t changed about black politics since 1965 is how we think about it. —Willie Legette In its commitment to making visible and less pervasive the various forms of theoretical...
View ArticleSplendors and Miseries of the Antiracist “Left”
Longevity has its discomforts, to be sure. It also has its compensations, one of which is that decades of recurrent exposure to variants of the same genera of intellectual and political pathologies...
View ArticleMazzocchi and the Moment
In recent months I’ve been thinking a lot, more than usual, of Anthony Mazzocchi, longtime official of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union, leading presence in the movement for...
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