Webinar: Radical Thought in a Time of Crisis
Through the lens of radical Black and Communist traditions and the interconnection of internationalism, socialism, and anti-imperialist resistance, we will discuss the crises of capitalism, the legacies of racial violence, and the possibilities for collective liberation.
Our guests are prolific writers and thinkers, Dr. Jodi Dean and Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly , who will discuss the book Organize, Fight, Win.
Date: Wed. May 21st
Time: 6 pm EST.
Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Lh2cnZhsQIaQKVFfE0dZ0w
Dr. Jodi Dean – teaches political theory in upstate NY and is actively involved in grassroots political organizing. Raised in Mississippi and Alabama, she went north for college, earning her BA at Princeton University and her MA and PhD at Columbia University. Initially, her focus was on Soviet area studies. In her second year of graduate school, she switched to political theory. Her books take up questions of solidarity, the conditions of possibility for democracy, communicative capitalism, and the necessity of building a politics that has communism as its horizon.
Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly –A professor of Black studies at Wayne State University. She received a PhD in African Diaspora Studies in 2016 from the University of California, Berkeley. Her areas of specialization include race and political economy, Black political theory, antiblackness and anti-radicalism, and Black radical thought. She is the co-author, with Dr. Gerald Horne, of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History, and is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Black Scare/Red Scare: Antiblackness, Anticommunism, and the Rise of Capitalism in the United States.
