University of Chicago Brown Bag
The Race and Capitalism Project hosts several brown bag lunches at the University of Chicago to share project-related news with graduate students and faculty and provide opportunities for others to workshop papers they are writing on the subject of race and capitalism. If you are interested in having your paper presented at an upcoming lunch, write to maniza@uchicago.edu.
Geoffrey Traugh, a Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows and a Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, will present “Capitalism of a Special Type? Race, Class, and Liberation in 1970s South Africa.” From Traugh:
This paper examines the history of the anti-apartheid movement and changing understandings of the relationship between race and capitalism in South Africa in the 1970s. It focuses on the theory of racial capitalism, looking first at its origins in debates over the political implications of economic growth under apartheid, and then showing how the broader analysis came to shape anti-apartheid activism in the years that followed. The paper reflects on what this South African story might contribute to new studies of race and capitalism both in Africa and the wider world.