Selected Readings
Please find the suggested readings for each event attached below.
Spring 2019 Readings
- Thursday, May 30th| 12:00 pm | Voorhies 126 | Nikhil Pal Singh in dialogue with Joshua Clover|Discussion on the resurgence of the race/class debate among the American left. Questions and informal conversation following their dialogue. Lunch will be provided.
Winter 2019 Readings
- Wednesday, January 23rd| 4:00 pm | Voorhies 126 | Reading Group Meeting | Discussion of selected readings by Jennifer Morgan, Kalindi Vora, and Alys Weinbaum
- Wednesday, February 6th| 4:00 pm | Voorhies 126 | Reading Group Meeting | Framing W.E.B. DuBois Discussion of selected readings by W.E.B. DuBois, facilitated by Matthew Vernon and Mark Jerng
- Excerpts from Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–(“The Black Worker”; “The White Worker,” “The Propaganda of History”)
- Excerpts from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (“The Princess of the Hither Isles”; “Of Work and Wealth”; “Hymn to the Peoples”)
- “Princess Steel”
- Excerpts from The World and Africa (“The Collapse of Europe”; “The Message”)
- Excerpts from Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept (“The Colored World Within”)
- Dubois – Dark Princess – Excerpt – Last Section of Novel
Fall 2018 Readings
- Wednesday, October 3rd | 12:00 pm | Hart Hall 3201 | Reading Group Meeting with Macarena Gómez-Barris, The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives.
- Tuesday, November 27th | 12:00 pm | Voorhies 126 | Discussion of selected readings by Andy Clarno (Neoliberal Apartheid) and Sharad Chari (Apartheid Remains) with the authors
Spring 2018 Readings
- Wednesday, April 18th, 4-6 pm: DHI Conference Room, Racial Capitalism and Legal Studies: Angela Harris in Conversation with Amy Kapczynski (Professor, Yale Law School) and Ahmed White (Nicholas Rosenbaum Professor of Law,University of Colorado Law School)
- Thursday, May 3, 2018, 4-6 pm: SS&H Conference Room 2203, Destin Jenkins, “Bonded Metropolis: Debt, Redevelopment, and Racial Inequality in Postwar San Francisco”
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- D.Jenkins-Racial Capitalism-UCDavis
- Tuesday, May 15, 2018, 4-6 pm: Voorhies 126, Neil Agarwal, “Thinking Through a Sort of Public and Psychological Wage”
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- Wednesday, May 23rd, 4-6 pm: Voorhies 126, Cedric Robinson, Anthropology of Marxism, Moderated by Seeta Chaganti
Winter 2018 Readings
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- Tuesday, February 20th ⏐ 4:00 pm ⏐ Voorhies 126: “Racial Capitalism and History”: Reading special issue of Boston Review “Race Capitalism Justice”
- Wednesday January 31st, 4pm, DHI Conference Room “Racial Capitalism and Performance Studies,” Patricia Ybarra & Jon Rossini
- Wednesday, February 7th ⏐ 4:00 pm ⏐ Voorhies 126: “Dispossession by Administration: The Open Secret of Racial Capitalist Violence,” Jodi Melamed (Marquette University)
Fall 2017 Readings
- Wednesday, October 4th, 4 pm, 126 Voorhies Hall: What Is Racial Capitalism? Reflections on Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
- Wednesday, October 18th, 4 pm, 126 Voorhies Hall: Zenia Kish (Stanford University) “Data Farming: Seeding a ‘Data Revolution’ in African Agriculture”
- Wednesday, October 25th, 4 pm, Manetti Shrem Museum: Assembly and Riot: Michael Hardt and Joshua Clover in conversation
- Tuesday, November 14, 4 pm, 126 Voorhies: Racial Capitalism and U.S. Empire: Javier Arbona (American Studies), Ofelia Cuevas (Chicano/a Studies), Anjali Nath (American Studies)
- Wednesday, November 29th, 4 pm, 126 Voorhies Hall: “The Colonial and Racial Nature of Extractive Capitalism” Alyosha Goldstein (University of New Mexico)