Category Archives: markets and group identity

Black Folks to Plantations! Mexicans go Home!: The 14th Amendment under Siege

Posted on March 18, 2011 by admutua

It appears the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution is under siege. On the day I prepared to discuss the drafting and eventual passing of the 14th Amendment in my legal history course on the Reconstruction era at University at … Continue reading →

Posted in Constitutional Law, economic and social rights, Labor, markets and group identity, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

The Identity Politics of Poverty

Posted on February 17, 2011 by aharris175

The financial markets may be up, but the experts all warn that for ordinary non-elites in the United States, the economic situation is likely to get worse before it gets better. Joblessness lingers, while states and municipalities cut their services … Continue reading →

Posted in economic and social rights, Free market ideology, markets and group identity, Uncategorized, who is middle class? | 1 Comment

On the Bookshelf: Governance Femininity

Posted on February 9, 2011 by aharris175

In her books Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism and Saving the Modern Soul: Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help, Eva Illouz examines the emergence of “therapeutic discourse,” an amalgam of Freudian theory and the American tradition of … Continue reading →

Posted in markets and group identity, Resources Of Interest, who is middle class? | 1 Comment

Black and Branded

Posted on February 6, 2011 by aharris175

A recent article in the Atlanta Post, “How Fast Food Companies ‘Super-Size’ African Americans,” features comments by Andrea Freeman, a teaching fellow at California Western School of Law (and, it must be admitted, a former student of mine) who argues … Continue reading →

Posted in corporate power, markets and group identity | 2 Comments