Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics by Lester K. Spence

Author:Lester K. Spence [Spence, Lester K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, African American, United States, Non-Fiction, Neoliberalism, Capitalism, Politics, Racism
ISBN: 9780692540794
Google: GuzRjgEACAAJ
Amazon: 0692540792
Goodreads: 28180573
Publisher: Punctum Books
Published: 2015-05-14T23:00:00+00:00

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Roland Fryer is an African American economist at Harvard University. One of the youngest people to ever receive tenure at Harvard (the youngest African American to do so), he’s the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (the so-called “genius grant”), the Calvó-Armengol International Prize (given biannually to the most promising social scientist under 40 studying social interaction), and in 2009 was recognized by Time Magazine as one of 2009’s “Time 100”.

It’s likely that people like Cornel West and Henry Louis Gates have had their work cited far more than Fryer—indeed both have been in the Academy for decades while Fryer is just stating out. Furthermore Ta-Nehisi Coates and Melissa Harris-Perry are likely more visible. However, I’d argue that particularly in the last years of the first decade of the twenty-first century more people’s day-to-day lives are influenced by Fryer.

On December 8, 2008, he appeared on The Colbert Report. Stephen Colbert’s introduction.

My guest tonight is an economist studying whether cash incentives will inspire students to learn more. If it works look forward to Secretary of Education Alex Trebek (Colbert 2008).

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