in particular the line of...When I saw that the Wisconsin governor was openly attacking White working class folks last month in Wisconsin I was floored. Why? Because the White working class, historically, has exercised significant official political power in the US. Read Richard Pearlstein’s Nixonland for more on this. (Rob do you know of any other contextual pieces on [...]
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011Tags: #Nixonland, Social Movements, Working Class
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Hope Is Hella Underrated: Musing on Youth Social Movements
Saturday, August 14th, 2010Black Youth Rising, by Shawn Ginwright is a book that changed my life because it addresses violence, East Oakland, social movements and the need for folks to understand how the crack epidemic’s most profound impact may be the ways in which it underminded Black city residents ability to hope that shit might get better. Given [...]
Tags: Black Youth Rising, Oakland, Political Education, Shawn Ginwright, Social Movements
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