Racial Capitalism Media Fellow Honored by the World Economic Forum
Larry Madowo, Columbia Journalism 2020, has been selected as a Young Global Leader of 2020.
Larry Madowo, Columbia Journalism class of 2020 and Center for the Study of Social Difference Racial Capitalism working group Media Fellow, has been selected as a Young Global Leader of 2020 by the World Economic Forum.
To see a full list of honorees click here.
Racial Capitalism Co-Director Publishes New Article
Jordan Camp examines the intersection of racism, capitalism, and US military doctrine.
Racial Capitalism working group co-director Jordan T. Camp published a new article titled “Counterinsurgency Reexamined: Racism, Capitalism, and US Military Doctrine.” Drawing on archival research, historical geography, and Marxist theory, the article traces US counterinsurgency efforts throughout the last century in examining the role of racism in achieving consent to counterinsurgency wars, and its impact on the endurance of capitalism.
Read the full article here.
Christina Heatherton to Deliver Lecture at The People’s Forum
The Racial Capitalism working group co-director’s lecture will examine the early life of Elizabeth Catlett.
Racial Capitalism working group co-director and Assistant Professor of American Studies at Barnard College, Christina Heatherton, will deliver a lecture titled “How to Make a Dress: Domestic Labor, Internationalism, and the Radical Pedagogy of Elizabeth Catlett” at The People’s Forum on February 29, 2020. The lecture will trace Elizabeh Catlett’s life as she developed into a radical feminist, fierce anti-racist, and staunch internationalist.
Read more about her lecture and RSVP here.
Racial Capitalism Co-Director Launches New Show Titled “The New Intellectuals”
Jordan Camp’s monthly interview show can be found on Youtube.
Racial Capitalism working group co-director Jordan T. Camp launched a monthly interview show, “The New Intellectuals,” on Youtube. Produced by The People’s Forum, it features interviews with intellectuals invested in the struggles of the poor, working class, and dispossessed in North America and the world.
Check out a full list of available episodes here.
Racial Capitalism Co-Directors Awarded HWPI grant
Jordan Camp, Christina Heatherton and Manu Vimalassery awarded a Humanities War and Peace Initiative grant.
The co-directors of CSSD working group Racial Capitalism, Jordan Camp, Christina Heatherton and Manu Vimalassery, have been awarded a Humanities War and Peace Initiative (HWPI) grant by Columbia University Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
The HWPI will support a broad range of activities, including individual scholarship, new scholarly collaborations, projects and events within existing interdisciplinary and collaborative structures, teaching, community outreach and programming, performance and exhibition, and ongoing dialogue in other forms. Generously supported by President Bollinger, this initiative aims to encourage creative thinking about the critical topic of war, with an ultimate goal of perpetuating a more peaceful world.
More information about the HWPI grant can be found here.
New working groups at CSSD launching AY2018-19
CSSD launches six new projects for the 2018-19 academic year. The projects will address gender, race, sexuality, and other forms of inequality to foster ethical and progressive social change.
CSSD launches six new projects for the 2018-19 academic year. The projects will address gender, race, sexuality, and other forms of inequality to foster ethical and progressive social change.
Racial Capitalism: This working group theorizes the connections between exploitation and expropriation in interlinked political geographies. The Racial Capitalism working group will build on and also expand already existing efforts of the Barnard New Directions in American Studies (NDAS) initiative.
Project Directors: Jordan T. Camp, Christina Heatherton, and Manu Vimalassery
On The Frontlines: Nursing Leadership in Pandemics: The working group On the Frontlines: Nursing Leadership in Pandemics seeks to understand the role of nurses as change agents in the prevention, detection and response to pandemic infectious disease outbreaks.
Project Directors: Jennifer Dohrn, Wilmot James, Steve Nicholas, Victoria Rosner
Geographies of Injustice: Gender and the City: Geographies of Injustice is a working group of interdisciplinary scholars who are interested in asking how spatial politics intersects with inequality and social difference (race, caste, and ethnicity).
Project Directors: Anupama Rao, Ana Paulina Lee
Menstrual Health and Gender Justice: The Menstrual Health and Gender Justice working group seeks to further the nascent field of menstrual studies. This group puts particular emphasis on critically evaluating the current state of research and how interdisciplinary collaboration might help remedy some of these gaps.
Project Director: Inga Winkler
Pedagogies of Dignity: Pedagogies of Dignity is an interdisciplinary initiative that brings together formerly incarcerated people, activists, faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Project Director: Christia Mercer
Queer Theory: Here, Now, and Everywhere: Queer Theory: Here, There, and Everywhere is a CSSD working group to discuss, debate and investigate the politics of sexuality and gender in a global frame.
Project Director: Jack Halberstam