EPISODE 1: TRANSNATIONAL HISTORIES: GLOBAL ASPECTS TO RACIAL CAPITALISM

Ananya Roy, Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography and the Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy at the University of California, Los Angeles

Her website

See more on: the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA

Roy’s published books include:

• 2007. Calcutta Requieum: Gender and the Politics of Poverty

• 2008. The Practice of International Health

• 2010. Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development

• 2011. Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global (Co-Editor: Aihwa Ong)

• 2015. Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South (Co-Editor: Emma Shaw Crane)

• 2016. Encountering Poverty: Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World (Co-Editors: Genevieve Negron-Gonzales, Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Clare Talwalker)

EPISODE 2: THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY: ABEL VALENZUELA ON THE PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY, LABOR, AND ORGANIZING

Abel Valenzuela, Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Urban Planning and Director of UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

EPISODE 3: HISTORIES OF RACIAL CAPITALISM: URBAN RENEWAL, RACIAL SEGREGATION, AND REDEVELOPMENT

Destin Jenkins, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of US History and the College at the University of Chicago

Process: A Blog for American History

Public Books

EPISODE 4: BLACK LIBERATION AND THE CRISIS OF CAPITAL

Abdul Alkalimat, Professor Emeritus in Department of African American Studies and School of Information Sciences at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Suggested:

Introduction to Afro American Studies

Alkalimat’s writing

EPISODE 5: MESTIZAJE, SKIN COLOR, AND CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT IN MEXICO

Federico Navarrete, Professor at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)

Selected articles:

• “Enter a cosmopolitics and cosmohistory: fabricated tempos and deus xamas among os astecas” , Journal of Anthropology, University of Sao Paulo , v. 59, n. 2, 2016.

• Towards another history of America. New views on cultural change and inter-ethnic relations , Berenice Alcántara Rojas (introd.), Mexico, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Institute for Historical Research, 2015 (Anthropological 22). [ Catalog IIH ] [ PDF ] [ EPUB ]

EPISODE 6: AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THE AGE OF FINANCIALIZATION

John N. Robinson III, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis

 Selected Publications:

Race, Poverty and Markets: Urban Inequality after the Neoliberal Turn

Coloring the Blind Spot: The Urban Black Community as an Object of Racial Discourse in the Age of Obama

EPISODE 7: COLONIALISM AND WEALTH EXTRACTION: PUERTO RICO AFTER MARIA

Evaluz Cotto Quijano, Associate Professor in the Department of Finance

UChicago Initiative to support students, scholars, and artists affected by Hurricanes Irma and Maria

 “How the Triple Tax Exemption on Puerto Rico’s Bonds Financed Its Territorial Status-and Helped Spark Its Debt Crisis” (Pro-Market)

 The Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROMESA