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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Since relatively few black men end up as gangsters, rappers or presidents, the notion that black western masculinity travels on a linear progression between Barack Obama and 50 Cent is deeply problematic. Between rap and the Oval office there is a world of popular black male figures inhabited by the likes of Chris Rock , Lewis Hamilton , Denzel Washington and Dave Chappelle – to name just a few. Fortunately...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
One night, in a bar in Zanzibar, I saw two sex workers chatting up a couple of Germans. The men were in their 50s, paunchy and balding - the women were young and pretty. It was a painful sight, the Germans plying the women with drinks and single entendre; the women laughing as though their lives depended on it, which in a way they did. But after a while the true pathos became apparent: the men actually...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
There are times when the usually glacial pace of social progress accelerates to such a degree that you feel you are experiencing it in real time. Stand in the present and history comes rushing towards you, making you feel lightheaded. The second that Ohio fell to Barack Obama on Tuesday evening, effectively handing him the keys to the White House, was one of those dizzying moments. A man born three...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
The day we brought my new-born son home to our Brooklyn apartment, an article in the New York Times pointed out that "a black male who drops out of high school [in the US] is 60 times more likely to find himself in prison than one with a bachelor's degree". These are the kind of statistics I often quote in my work. But this time it was personal. Looking down at him as he snoozed in the brand new car...
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Unenlightened Commentary. (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
Gary Younge goes race baiting . He's peddling conspiracy theories about black voters being denied the right to cast a ballot in the USA. He cites this statistic as evidence: A recent CNN poll showed that 42% of voters are not confident their vote will be accurately cast and counted - almost three times the figure four years ago. Really so after four years of fearmongering by the left...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
As the sun rose over Soweto on South Africa's first democratic election in 1994, the Mwale family were too busy with practical matters to ponder the historical resonance of the day. Following rumours that a white supremacist group was going to poison the main water tank, they boiled the water and cooked a huge pot of mealies. The day before, during early voting, granny had waited seven hours to cast...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
Gary Younge discovers that small town America has a lot more culture on offer than first meets the eye
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bastard.logic (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
... Out Party , Religion Dispatches John Harwood, Change Is Landing in Old Hands , New York Times Gary Younge, Americans have never felt so excited, and yet so depressed , The Guardian Elaine Scarry, Presidential Crimes , The Boston Review Recommend this post at Progressive Bloggers
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Letters: I appreciated Gary Younge's attention to the hard work of Barack Obama's grassroots volunteers
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US Presidential race 2008 rea (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Letters:I appreciated Gary Younge's attention to the hard work of Barack Obama's grassroots volunteers
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Peter Kenyon (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
The Guardian's Gary Younge writes today about the big question for those of us utterly convinced about the role of the grassroots in democratic politics. With no democratic input, they promoted the agenda the campaign had outlined. It was Obama's show. They funded it and promoted it. But they did not own it. But since Wednesday all of that changed. They won. Now we'll see whether this...
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Rosenblumtv (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
... and doing it rather better than most. In past posts, I have extolled online video from our old pal Gary Younge Yesterday, I had the opportunity to see what makes The Guardian so good. Among a sea of typical conference speakers, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger stood out far ahead of the crowd. Razor smart, funny, self-deprecating yet clever, you can see immediately that he is the kind...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Gary Younge watches the drama of election night unfold from Chicago's southside - the heart of the black community
