I like Carmen’s response on “Who Owns Tomorrow” (which was well-complimented with “A World without Work”) because she captured the personal approach to broad disparities used by Watlington in her article. The […]
I enjoyed reading Amadi’s response to “Conflict, Change, and Economic Policy in the Long 1970s” because she brought it back to the pervasive ideas that tend to linger throughout American history: the government […]
Going off of what Cherise wrote, I too will comment on the Barker article, because I found it interesting (if at times I struggled with economic understandings). My biggest take-away, which will be apparent in my […]
Questions:
1. How might an elected black official’s experience in campaigning and governing be different from a white official’s experience?
2. What is the “second reconstruction”?
I really was cracking up when Jay said he’d get a lot of flak from social scientists, so I think that’s where I’ll start. I didn’t mind reading a lot of data and then ideas based on that data, because that’s how […]
Question on “Prosperity Which Way?”:
1. Why is the argument against raising wages raising cost of living? (In other words, it’s like today when you tell someone that a $15 minimum wage would be cool and they say […]
After reading Postel’s “The American Populist and Anti-Populist Legacy” and then reading Jordan’s summary, I was struck by historical parallels and how something a movement I knew so little about could have […]
I like Chris Watkins’ interpretation of “Empire’s Tracks” and I see a strong parallel between Manu Karuka’s book and Emma Teitelman’s essay. Focusing on the relationship between private companies and government, […]
I agree with Chris’ interpretation of DuBoi’s “Black Reconstruction in America”. Chris tied together the chapters really wonderfully and pointed out the central theme of racialization as as the foundation for an […]
(Incredibly sorry if this posts more than once. I am struggling with my internet.)
While reading for this week, I think I might have been in a bad mood. I was frustrated with each piece for a variety of reasons […]
