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Critical Perspectives @UrbanDividend

Critical Perspectives

I examine how power, race, and class shape our economic and social world.

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I want to begin with two tables, because they make the argument more efficiently than any amount of prose.

The first lists the Caribbean and Caribbean-connected individuals who will appear in this series, ranked by reported net worth.

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The Four Temptations

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Back in the day, as a student at the University of Sussex, I took a small part in a production of The Trial of Dedan Kimathi. I cannot now recall which role I played. What I can recall, with considerably more precision, is the e...

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When the Machine Tops the Charts

With a crooning voice and wistful lyrics, singer Eddie Dalton surged to the top of the UK music charts, gaining fans who have streamed his songs millions of times. But there is just one problem: he isn’t real. Marketed online as an African-...

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Cox, Beckford, Ambedkar, and the Design of Hierarchy

When Oliver Cox warned against comparing race and caste, he was making a methodological argument that still matters - but the comparison, done carefully, reveals something neither tradition can see alone.

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