Podcasts Culture Haymarket Books Live Racial Capitalism and Crisis with Robin D.G. Kelley, Grace Blakeley (Socialism 2020) (7-4-20)

Racial Capitalism and Crisis with Robin D.G. Kelley, Grace Blakeley (Socialism 2020) (7-4-20)

Published: March 2, 2021, 9:21 p.m.

b'Join Robin D.G. Kelley, Grace Blakeley, and Brian Jones for the opening plenary of Socialism 2020 Virtual. Register for the conference at www.socialismconference.org.\\n\\nWe open the conference with a panorama of our present political landscape: a global pandemic, racialized health disparities backed by racist police violence, and the likelihood of a major economic crisis. This panel will situate our moment and prepare us for what is to come by explaining the contours of the new world we are entering, and how it has been shaped by the racialized capitalist system we still have with us. The conference will open with a performance of Frederick Douglass\\u2019s \\u201cWhat to the Slave is the Fourth of July?\\u201d\\n\\nSocialism 2020 is sponsored by Haymarket Books, Jacobin, and the Democratic Socialists of America. Learn more at socialismconference.org.\\n\\nWatch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/L0sAiaJf-A8\\n\\nBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org\\n\\nFollow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks'