Mia White, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, The New School This lecture erects three conceptual pillars: institutions – history – space. “Institution” is understood broadly as any structure or mechanism of social order governing the behavior of individuals while also transcending individual lives and intention. In this regard, we may call “race” an institution. “History”
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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
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
Event – Slaves: The Capital that Made Capitalism
Public Lecture by Julia Ott – Associate Professor of History and Co-Director of the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies, The New School Most theories of capitalism set aside slavery as something utterly distinct because under slavery, workers do not labor for a wage. An historical and empirical investigation, however, reveals that the factory
Event – Slavery Race Capitalism: Public Lectures
Historians’ recent investigations of the centrality of racialized chattel slavery to the origins of capitalism -along with activists’ efforts to expose the ongoing legacy of New World slavery – inspire a broad reconsideration of the connections between capitalism, race, and coerced labor across time and around the world. ‘Carceral capitalism,’ the question of reparations, ‘revenue-generating’
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
Betsy Beasley – “Another New Kind of Marriage”
Another New Kind of Marriage Betsy Beasley — July 20, 2015 (This post was republished in its entirety from Public Seminar) …or does it? © Elvert Barnes | Flickr On Friday, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a decision guaranteeing the right of same-sex couples to marry in every state in the nation.
Victoria Hattam’s Book Published: “In the Shadow of Race”
University Of Chicago Press has recently published New School Professor Victoria Hattam’s book, “In the Shadow of Race: Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States.” Awarded the Ralph Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association, the book, which can be found here, recovers “the history of [the] entrenched distinction [between race and ethnicity] and the