Saturday, November 28, 2020 at 3pm Want to spend your Covid-19 isolation sharpening your analytical senses and building your historical knowledge? Join the Education Committee for the inauguration of our Socialist Night School! This will include a lecture followed by a discussion informed by selected optional readings. Register here to participate in this and subsequent Socialist Night School online meetings.
For this Socialist Night School session we will be learning more about the history of the contruction of the modern idea of race, and how race reductionism and racial capitalism intersect with one another. Please see the recommended readings & videos below:
What is Racial Capitalism and Why Does It Matter? by Robin D.G. Kelley (Video)
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation Excerpt from Ch 7 by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Marx, Race and Neoliberalism by Adolph Reed Jr
Beware the Race Reductionist by Brianha Joy Gray