Labor and Equity
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Human Rights Discourse in the Post-9/11 Age
Human Rights Discourse in the Post-9/11 Age
This event will be posted on our Facebook page! Kanishka Chowdhury is Professor of English and Director of the American Culture & Difference Program at the University of St. Thomas. His new book, HUMAN RIGHTS DISCOURSE IN THE POST 9/11 AGE, offers a critique of mainstream human rights discourse in the period following […]
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Zoom: Marx’s “Capital” Reading Group
Zoom: Marx’s “Capital” Reading Group
For the May 9th meeting, we will cover Chapters 15 (second half) through 24. Here Marx further develops his discussion of collective labor and class formation begun in the previous few chapters and fleshes out his thinking on wages and the production of surplus value. These chapters, which engage with how capital distinguishes "productive" and […]
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Afropessimism: A Conversation Between Frank Wilderson III and Bill Hart
Afropessimism: A Conversation Between Frank Wilderson III and Bill Hart
Thursday, May 14, 2020, 7pm Frank Wilderson's new book, AFROPESSMISM fuses innovative philosophy with trenchant memoir to argue that we are still living in the legacy of slavery's historical social position. Khalil Muhammad, Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, at Harvard, writes: " is one of the boldest and most unflinching theorists […]
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Slavery and the Development of American Capitalism
Slavery and the Development of American Capitalism
The East Side Freedom Library and the Saint Paul Recovery Act Reparations Reading Group invite you to our monthly conversation: Slavery and the Development of American Capitalism. We will be reading and discussing an interview with historian Edward Baptist, "How Slavery Became America's First Big Business." In this 2019 interview, Baptist connects his brilliant book, […]