Autumn 2015 “Race and Capitalism”

Curated by Michael Dawson, John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College; Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture

Thursday, October 8, 2015

TEACHING RACE: HOW SKIN TONE, THE RACIAL HIERARCHY, AND GENDER INFLUENCE THE PARENTAL SOCIALIZATION PROCESS

Cristina Ortiz, Doctoral Candidate, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago

 

Thursday, October 22, 2015

PERSPECTIVES ON RACE AND CAPITALISM WITH: 

"Breaking the Racial Contract"

Charles W. Mills, John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Northwestern University

"Hidden in Plain Sight: A Note on Legitimation Crises and the Racial Order"

Michael C. Dawson, John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago

 

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

OF SPECULATION AND EXPERT KNOWLEDGE: PAULI MURRAY AND THE RACIAL INTEGRATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA

David Ferguson, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago

 

Thursday, November 12, 2015

RACE AND CAPITALISM PANEL WITH: 

Michael C. Dawson, John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago

Jonathan Levy, Associate Professor of U.S. History and the College, University of Chicago

Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz, Associate Professor of History, University of New Mexico

Gavin Wright, William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History, Stanford University

 

Thursday, November 19, 2015

BLACK/WHITE DIFFERENCES IN INTERGENERATIONAL ECONOMIC MOBILITY IN THE UNITED STATES

Bhashkar Mazumder, Senior Economist and Research Advisor and Director of the Chicago Census Research Data Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

Thursday, December 3, 2015

ARENDT'S DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL REDEEMED: INTERVENING ON THE RULE OF RACE AS ESSENTIAL TO POLITICAL RESISTANCE TO RACISM

Ainsley LeSure, Harper-Schmidt Fellow, University of Chicago