This day-long conference on concepts of racial CAPITALISM WILL INVOLVE
PAPERS FROM GRADUATE STUDENTS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY. This symposium
will focus on naming and defining the various aspects of racial
capitalism and its use as a concept in academic and/or social justice
work, as well as how the concept can be applied in across fields of
inquiry. This conference will serve as an exploratory space to present
to fellow graduate students and receive feedback on works-in-progress
utilizing relevant themes, explanations, critiques, or historical
studies of race and capitalism.
The Race & Capitalism Symposium will comprise a day of discussion and
debate among local scholars regarding how we might address issues of
racial capitalism and better utilize these concepts in our work.
Though the symposium will be broadly constituted, we aim to consider
the depth of racial capitalism as a theory, a history, and a device to
explicate systems of exploitation, neoliberalism and world-making. Our
aim is to refine and sharpen conceptualizations of ‘racial
capitalism’ or ‘race and capitalism’ through our own empirical
and theoretical work, which broadens the contexts under which the
concept is studied. We especially draw upon Cedric Robinson’s
foundational definitions of racial capitalism and the Black Radical
Tradition, taking up the following key questions: How does racial
capitalism structure the modern world? What are the institutions and
systems that perpetuate racial capitalism? What are the problems with
concepts of racial capitalism, as so defined? How can radical politics
combat racial capitalism? Is capitalism aspirational for marginalized
communities?
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