Uptown Notes

This is my reflection on Imani: Faith…
Faith is often thought of in a religious and spiritual way. Having grown up [...]

It’s been a minute since I dropped a Friday Funny on ya’ll, probably because I’ve been traveling the Diaspora for [...]

Times are tough but thankfully the iphone is providing some relief. Here’s a brotha who takes Falling Down to a [...]

So one of the problems with being a sociologist of race and offering public commentary is it sometimes creates the [...]

We here at Uptown Notes are very much in accord with the African belief of respecting one’s elders and are [...]

Do you know some Black birthers? I bet you do!

Here is a hilarious edition of This Week in Blackness by Elon James White. This week’s BET awards were … [...]

We remain in a moment where people are beginning to realize that the election of Barack Obama does not mean a Black political agenda, one in which race is central, will continue to be pushed into the public sphere. So the question becomes, who advances the concerns of the faces at the bottom of the well?

This is sssssssooooooo ignant and ssssssoooooo wrong, but I really did laugh out loud!

I spend most days in the classroom teaching on issues of race, social class, mobility and opportunity. The discussions I have always intrigue me, particularly because most of my students are people of color from working class backgrounds. After listening and reading, I’m beginning to think the belief that anything is possible, clouds us from seeing what is probable. I say this not to be a pessimist, rather because I wonder what the line between naivete and willful denial of reality is. And if there are or what are the consequences for this thinning line for our people.