In recent years, the inseparable procedures of racialization and capitalism have been magnified in the public eye. Scholarship has moved alongside debt crises and the ongoing profitability of punishment, and taken clues from social movements that have dramatized the connections between the dynamics of race, finance, extraction, selective success and economic immiseration. In this conversation
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10/23 The Bonds and Boundaries of Debt: Towards an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda
Amna Akbar, Destin Jenkins, Julia Ott, and Caitlin Zaloom will discuss Bonds and Boundaries of Debt. This event brings together scholars interested in the history, anthropology, and legality of debt. It asks participants to use one story/case study to theorize what is similar and distinct about various forms of indebtedness. Does the collective, non-consensual conscription
3/7 | AUDIO | Michael Dawson and Nancy Fraser discuss race, capitalism, and the neoliberal racial order
On Heilbroner Center and colleagues present a conversation between Michael Dawson (The University of Chicago) and Nancy Fraser (The New School), in which they discuss race and capitalism. They will debate Dawson’s “Black Politics and the Neoliberal Racial Order” and Fraser’s “Expropriation and Exploitation in Racialized Capitalism.” Fraser perceives capitalism as an institutionalized social order,
4/25 | Mia White: Rebellion and a Spatial Theory of Love
Please join our colleagues Mia C. White and the Tishman Environment and Design Center for their upcoming Lunch and Learn, “Rebellion and a Spatial Theory of Love.” The event will take place on Wednesday, April 25th, 2018, from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, in Room 1605, 79 5th Avenue. Mia Charlene White is Assistant Professor of
5/8 | Whiteness as Property, Choice, and Citizenship: Raced Rights and Inequality in Public Education under Neoliberalism
Public lecture by Ujju Aggarwal – Postdoctoral Fellow, National Academy of Education, Spencer Foundation May 8, 6pm Wolff Conference Room, 6 E 16th St Room 1103 Since Brown v. Board of Education, public education has been both the most universally accessible and yet also the most unequal institution in the United States. Public education
3/27 | Neoliberalism and the Paradox of Persistent Racial Disparity
Public Lecture by Darrick Hamilton – Associate Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, Milano and the New School for Social Research Black Americans with high levels of educational attainment still, paradoxically, exhibit large disparities in economic and health outcomes. The post-racial politics of personal responsibility and tropes of ‘neoliberal paternalism’ discourage public responsibility for the
2/13 | The Plantation Complex and the Force Economy: Liberalism and the Racial Mode of Production, 1830-1900
Public Lecture by Kris Manjapra – Associate Professor of History and Interim Director, Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, Tufts University During the so-called Age of Liberalism (1830-1900), forced labor spread across the globe. Amidst discourses of abolition, the monumental migration of ‘indentured’ laborers from Asia to the West Indies was matched
Julia Ott | “Slaves: The capital that made capitalism”
Slaves: The Capital that Made Capitalism Julia Ott — August 20, 2015 (this post was republished in its entirety from Public Seminar) The slaves of General Thomas F. Drayton, 1862 © Henry P. Moore | Wikimedia Commons This post, adapted from a lecture in the team-taught course “Rethinking Capitalism” at The New School for Social