For the second in our series we were joined by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean to discuss their collection, Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Writing, with Andrew Brooks. A wide ranging discussion that tethered these 20th century writings and the activism and theorisation of their authors to movement building…
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The Culture and Society discipline at my university, Western Sydney University is hosting an online seminar series, Radical Antiracism Today: New books in abolitionist, anticolonial, internationalist antiracism. The series is supported by the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and the Institute for Culture and Society. I am coordinating this…
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Lecture given to the ICS Key Thinkers and Concepts Series. I have included both the recording of the lecture on Zoom (which is in two parts) and the text and slides below that. The text and accompanying slides of the lecture follow: Universities are built on sovereign Aboriginal lands. Western…
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Continuing our focus on racial capitalism, Understanding Race discussed the relationship between race and class with a focus on Race and the Undeserving Poor by Robbie Shilliam. Using the book Futures of Black Radicalism, and in particular the chapter by Nikhil Pal Singh, we explored the limitations of Marxist interpretations of…
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