Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics

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AGAINST THE NEOLIBERAL TURN IN BLACK POLITICS

AGAINST THE NEOLIBERAL TURN IN BLACK POLITICS punctum books brooklyn, ny.

KNOCKING THE HUSTLE: AGAINST THE NEOLIBERAL TURN IN BLACK POLITICS © 2015 Lester K. Spence eose http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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Dedicated to LaVita Wright Liverspoon (1969-2014), to Sam Isbell (1968-2001), and to the Spence Clan (Imani, Kamari, Kiserian, Niara, and Khari)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THANKS TO MY AGENT SHOSHANA CRICHTON FOR HER WORK. Eileen Joy and the staff at punctum for taking the risk. Tamara K. Nopper for her wonderful editing assistance. The Breakfast Club for the semi-daily affirmation. Abigail Breiseth, Denise Lever, Camilla Seiler, Jay Gillen, and David Jonathan Cross, for thoughtful comments (and to Sam Chambers, Bret Gustafson, Clarissa Hayward, Fredrick Harris, Taeku Lee, Tamara Nopper, Rogers Smith, Steve Teles, and Dorian Warren for comments on the SOULS article this comes out of). The Sons of Blood and Thunder for Manhood, Scholarship, Perseverance, and Uplift (Sam Kirkland, Darius McKinney, Glenn B. Eden, Selvan Manthiram, Lee Rudolph, Kurmell Knox, and Caurnel Morgan in particular). Hanes Walton, Richard Iton, Nick Nelson, and Stuart Hall (RIP) for providing examples. The Department of Political Science and the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University for providing a home. The members of Hopkins’ noon basketball game for providing a court. My children and family for providing a reason. The Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University, the Murray Weidenbaum Center at Washington University in St. Louis, and the Political Science Departments at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania for providing a platform. Don Palmer and Beth Frederick, for providing a third space. The Red Emmas Collective, LBS, RAF, the Algebra Project, RTHA, West Wednesdays, Equity Matters, BUC, and the general 313, 248, and 734 area codes (Detroit, Inkster, Ann Arbor, and Southfield in particular) for providing alternatives. Marc Steiner for providing ammunition. And as always a special thanks to those who antagonistically cooperated with me in writing this book. The errors, of course, are mine.

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