Metropolitics

Education Myths, Black Self-Determination, and University Accountability to the City

Christopher R. Rogers & Laura Wolf-Powers — 2024-03-08T06:00:00Z

Laura Wolf-Powers interviews scholar and community organizer Chris Rogers about his extensive work in Philadelphia. They discuss his journey to Penn and activism against the University of Pennsylvania's “parasitic relationship to Black Philadelphia,” including policing on campus, housing struggles, and efforts for payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTs).
---- Series: Black Power and Black Self-Determination in a New Time and New Spaces I'm Laura Wolf-Powers, a professor of urban planning at CUNY

- Interviews / Philadelphia, education, Black Lives Matter, Black politics, university, self-determination, housing, activism, Black Power, Movement for Black Lives

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

The Americanization of French social movements? Community organizing and its discontents in the banlieues

Julien Talpin — 2017-06-29T05:05:00Z

In this second of two articles, sociologist Julien Talpin discusses the importation to France of American traditions and practices of community organizing. Despite the successful cross-cultural transfer of methods that allow groups to tackle racial issues, which have been difficult to accommodate within the French activist paradigm, American-style community organizing has encountered resistance from the left. Practices imported from the US may nevertheless influence French civil society more

- From the Field / France, banlieue, participation, social movement, race, mobilization, community organizing, French politics, L'Alliance Citoyenne, Studio Praxis, Graines de France, Movement for Black Lives, Soros Foundation, ACORN