CS 062: Myth of Black Buying Power feat. Jared Ball (@imixwhatilike) (1/21/2018) (Patreon)

Jared A. Ball is a father and husband. After that he is a multimedia radio and television host, producer and journalist. Ball is also a founder of "mixtape radio" and "mixtape journalism" about which he wrote I MiX What I Like: A MiXtape Manifesto (AK Press, 2011) and is co-editor ofA Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X (Black Classic Press, 2012). Ball is an associate professor of Multiplatform Production at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. and can be found online at IMIXWHATILIKE.ORG.

Discussed in the episode:

• I Mix What I Like's ongoing and constantly updated project documenting developments in explaining and adding data to the myth of Black buying power: https://imixwhatilike.org/2017/04/28/the-myth-of-black-buying-power/ 
• I Mix What I Like's "George Jackson Tribute Mixtape" https://imixwhatilike.org/2013/07/27/georgejacksonmixtape/ 
• Jared Ball's book, I Mix What I Like: A Mixtape Manifesto http://amzn.to/2Fszato 
• Blood in My Eye by George Jackson http://amzn.to/2DUVLSq 
• Two older books that attempted to debunk the Black buying power/buy Black myth: Black Bourgeoisie by E. Franklin Frazier http://amzn.to/2BEClMA  and Myth of Black Capitalism by Earl Ofari Hutchinson http://amzn.to/2DPR0dq