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After the Masses

things ignored in the more 'fatal' versions of new times is the binding power of the new transnational media systems: the power they have to move people not just to buy into networks that offer…quoted' snatches of speech from dead black leaders) into a version of black history and struggle in the New World - from slavery to civil rights to black power and the buppies - which may otherwise have

Rattle's Rhythm MUSIC

homeboys called Public Enemy. In the true spirit of cultural dichotomy, they represented extreme ends of contemporary black music. Cool J was the sexual athlete. He'd been arrested in Georgia a few months before…London, for simulating the sex act on stage. And Public Enemy were the exhumed body of black power, a chapter of new wave rappers reared on Malcolm X. The stories of stolen VW signs

Tarzan And The Jungle Bunnies: Class, Race And Sex In Popular Culture

imaginary place of black origins associated with the colonial past - it is the contemporary inner city as constructed in moral panics where white youths find themselves positioned alongside their black peers as 'animals and savages…these lads' culture. 4 What happens, then, when the two terms are put together? If a black boy is called a jungle bunny by one of these young racists, he may choose to ignore…sexuality and social combination in a way which epitomized, for these lads, the very threat of black power. This was a physical prowess they secretly envied, even idealized, though in the jokes and stories they

Environmental Images and Imaginary Landscapes

s an accomplished photographer, and as a founder member of the Black Environmental Network (BEN), Ingrid Pollard has produced a body of work which encourages a reconsideration of certain…essay, the belief that population needs urgently to be controlled. 1. The Black Environmental Network (BEN) was formed in order to encourage black people's participation in activities and debates about environmental issues…urban (black) ghettos, and the deterioration of the Californian wilderness. These fears grew in the context of the demands for equality expressed by the civil rights movement and emergent Black Power activists, and what

Placing Television

communication that empowers publics and disempowers authority. Indeed the rise of feminism, the civil rights movement, black power, and other movements of the 1960s is traceable to the impact of television, which incited its first

POLITICS & SPORT

work of a black athletic protest movement first proposed by the black political satirist Dick Gregory before the 1960 Olympics. He argued that the Olympics exploited black Americans who were allowed to temporarily emerge from…Jose State College basketball coach, culminated on the victory rostrum in the clenched-fist black power salutes of Tommie Smith (who held 11 world sprint records), Lee Evans (who with the Cuban Juantorena was among

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FOREIGN NEWS

state of emergency to crush a growing black power movement led by the National Joint Action Committee. Their spokesman, Geddes Granger, had called

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And What Did We Find?

this is a contribution made by the women from the brixton black women’s group to the rally “women all over the world in struggle for liberation”, held at conway hall on international women’s day, march 8th 1978. As britain began to feel an economic decline, black people became more and more of a ‘problem’ the acts became increasingly restrictive and repressive and black women faced particular violation of their home and privacy.

Violence Against Women: male power in action

Whilst women are sure to confront it, this is an issue which should concern all people, and the degree to which men are prepared to become allies of women in the struggle against violence, harassment and the fear of violence which act as social controls, will be indicative of the degree to which men are prepared to take women seriously. single women whilst women in relationships with men are subject to domestic violence, or the threat of it, women on their own are not free from the fear of violence.

Politics, Race and US Penal Strategies

In the national drug control strategy, published in september 1989 as a blue print for bush's drug war, william bennett, the national 'drug czar', provided a suitable example of the way in which politicians have organised and targeted rising social concerns over crime and drugs in order to build a more coercive moral unity and legitimise increased 165  soundings carceral control.3 according to bennett, 'the intensifying drug-related chaos' may be predominantly attributed to crack: 'our most intense and immediate problem is inner-city crack use'; this 'is spreading like a plague'(pp3-5). anti-drug discourses: the inner-city and crack cocaine if the black underclass ideology dehumanised inner-city blacks and pointed to them as the cause of many social evils, anti-drug discourses took the censure of inner164  politics, race and us penal strategies city blacks a step further, actively mobilising and legitimising political action against them.

Politics, Race and US Penal Strategies

In the national drug control strategy, published in september 1989 as a blue print for bush's drug war, william bennett, the national 'drug czar', provided a suitable example of the way in which politicians have organised and targeted rising social concerns over crime and drugs in order to build a more coercive moral unity and legitimise increased 165  soundings carceral control.3 according to bennett, 'the intensifying drug-related chaos' may be predominantly attributed to crack: 'our most intense and immediate problem is inner-city crack use'; this 'is spreading like a plague'(pp3-5). anti-drug discourses: the inner-city and crack cocaine if the black underclass ideology dehumanised inner-city blacks and pointed to them as the cause of many social evils, anti-drug discourses took the censure of inner164  politics, race and us penal strategies city blacks a step further, actively mobilising and legitimising political action against them.

Thinking with music

In a similar vein the search for politics continues in hemment's suggestion that 'the ecstatic dance is not in itself political, but it is a micropolitical event - an intervention in the formation of desire'.2 finally, hesmondhalgh warns against a too easy confirmation of the democratic potential of dance music on the grounds of these same features of authorless music, imagined and produced largely outside the corporate cultures of the big music companies.3 this is misleading, he argues, because it overlooks how dance music producers also get sucked into the star mythology of name djs and the attraction of a record deal with a major company. 'it is not unusual for producers like grooverider and 4hero to make a piece of music in the daytime and play it 'out' at a club in the evening'.4 4. 62 c. melville, 'new forms and metal headz; jungle, black music and breakbeat culture', unpub ma dissertation goldsmiths college, london 1997-  thinking with music morrisey by rankin how this kind of activity will work out in the post-welfare society remains to be seen.

Thinking with Music

In a similar vein the search for politics continues in hemment's suggestion that 'the ecstatic dance is not in itself political, but it is a micropolitical event - an intervention in the formation of desire'.2 finally, hesmondhalgh warns against a too easy confirmation of the democratic potential of dance music on the grounds of these same features of authorless music, imagined and produced largely outside the corporate cultures of the big music companies.3 this is misleading, he argues, because it overlooks how dance music producers also get sucked into the star mythology of name djs and the attraction of a record deal with a major company. 'it is not unusual for producers like grooverider and 4hero to make a piece of music in the daytime and play it 'out' at a club in the evening'.4 4. 62 c. melville, 'new forms and metal headz; jungle, black music and breakbeat culture', unpub ma dissertation goldsmiths college, london 1997-  thinking with music morrisey by rankin how this kind of activity will work out in the post-welfare society remains to be seen.

Home News:

london prompting but by tuesday october 19 it had become clear that the original prompting had come from london: the irish times were told by dutch police on monday that the “original inspiration” had come from the special branch in london; moreover while on the saturday the dutch police said they had “good reason to believe these arms were destined for the ira” by monday dutch police chief major erik gerritsen stated that special branch envoy winslow had failed to convince him that there was any connection with the ira. Home news 7 days 27 october 1971 camera press after ten days of lies a nd planted stories 7 d a y s exposes the fraud of the amsterdam arm s haul it is now clear that the dramatic “dis­ covery” of 116 crates of czech arms at amsterdam airport on october 16 was a hoax, set up by the foreign office and the special branch to whip up an anti-ira scare and add some substance to their faltering campaign against the 105 russian “spies”.

Flight From Jo'burg

south africa's new era flight from jo'burg i international pressure has bowed south africa's once-powerful economy. tncs ended new investment to the third world (including south africa) in the late 1970s.