S1E5: Racial Capitalism: Globalism, Empire, and War

EPISODE 5: RACIAL CAPITALISM: GLOBALISM, EMPIRE, AND WAR

Adom Getachew, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago

Author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (In Progress)

Nikhil Pal Singh, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History and Faculty Director of NYU Prison Education Program

Author of Race and America’s Long War (University of California Press, 2017)

Recommended Reading: Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, C.L.R. James, W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America and Souls of Black Folk, Marx’s Capital

For post-colonial theorists, see the works of Partha Chatterjee and Dipesh Chakrabarty

See also the works of Walter Rodney, George Beckford, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Naomi Murakawa, and Elizabeth Hinton.

Sam Laffey