Metropolitics

Black Power and Black Self-Determination in a New Time and New Spaces

Akira Drake Rodriguez & James DeFilippis — 2023-10-31T06:00:00Z

Black Power organizing in cities in the United States and around the world has a long history. This special series of articles focuses on efforts for Black political and economic power in the contemporary period, while drawing upon the efforts of those who have come before.
---- ▼ Jump to the list of articles in this series ▼ There is a long history of Black Power organizing in cities in the United States and around the world. While the language of Black Power is sometimes limited to a

- Series / Movement for Black Lives, Black politics, Black Power

Progressive Mayors and Urban Social Movements

Akira Drake Rodriguez & James DeFilippis & John Mollenkopf — 2018-09-11T05:00:00Z

The challenges of implementing progressive urban agendas are both structural and political in nature. This series explores these long-standing tensions within the contemporary contexts of growing metropolitan inequality, increasingly fractured political and cultural divides, and social movements in response to these changes.
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Creating an urban governing coalition that vigorously pursues public policies that reduce inequalities in income

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Shrinking Cities

2017-03-27T05:05:00Z

Brexit in the United Kingdom, the election of Donald Trump in the United States, the rise of extreme-right populist parties in France or more recently in Germany: these recent events have the common feature of being widely portrayed as the political consequences of the decline of old industrialized regions in Western countries. The question of the emergence of a “two-tier society”—characterized on the one hand by a tendency to concentrate the hopes of national economic prosperity in large

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On Clinton, Obama, Trump and the Failures of Liberal Urban Policy

James DeFilippis — 2016-11-15T15:03:01Z

Many progressives are still in shock at the outcome of the recent US presidential election. In this contribution to the “Debates” section of Metropolitics, James DeFilippis advances a policy-based explanation for anemic voter turnout in key Democratic cities.
In the closing days of the seemingly endless 2016 US presidential campaign, it became increasingly clear to political observers that Hillary Clinton was explicitly adopting a platform of continuity with President Barack Obama's

- Debates / urban policy, elections, US election, presidential election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump