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New Dawn

Michael C. Dawson, founder and former Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture and is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago, is the host of this Race and Capitalism Project-initiated podcast series, New Dawn. He invites guests to discuss their research related to race and capitalism. Many episodes have generously been supported by Scholarly Borderlands and Social Science Research Council.

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01:21:26

Nefarious Laws - Digital Currencies and the Gig...

New Dawn ·

2024/08/19

In this conversation recorded at the Futures of Finance Retreat, Prof Veena Dubal and Prof Rohan Grey discuss the implications of new regulatory regimes for poor consumers and working-class people as would-be investors in crypt-currency and "employees" of ride-share companies. Rohan talks about his research and policy proposals on a responsible, transformative approach to regulating digital currencies - "we do need a world that values anonymity as a primary concern". Veena

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01:04:47

Origins and Aims of the Futures of Finance Project -...

New Dawn ·

2024/08/19

In this conversation Emily Katzenstein, Hannah Appel, and Michael Dawson discuss the origins and aims of the Futures of Finance Project. It is a culmination of Michael's and Hannah's shared interest to build networks of people in and out of the academy to deal with inequality in many forms: along the lines of gender and sexuality, race, and class, to understand them as academics and try to build transformative social movements as well. As Michael says, "Building for the future is not a

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00:42:37

Socialism and Empire: Labor, Migration, and Racial...

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2022/05/31

Inés Valdez, Associate Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University, joins the New Dawn Podcast and discusses the role of labor and migration as a form of racial politics. As a critical race and feminist theorist, Valdez's research agenda has engaged issues of migration, transnationalism, empire, and racial capitalism. Her first book, Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and Justice as a Political Craft, was published by Cambridge and makes the case that cosmopolitanism must

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00:55:52

Celebrating Charles W. Mills, 1951-2021 |...

New Dawn ·

2021/09/28

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Charles W. Mills. To celebrate his life, New Dawn is re-releasing the episode Michael recorded with Charles almost two years ago called, "Retheorizing (Racial) Justice." Please enjoy the conversation and help us say goodbye to a tremendous teacher, scholar, and racial justice advocate.Michael Dawson and Charles Mills discuss the relationship between capitalism and white supremacy, how philosophers can follow the examples set by political theorists,

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00:58:01

Decolonizing Discourse about Africa: An...

New Dawn ·

2021/05/04

In this episode of New Dawn, Michael C. Dawson along with special guest host, Charisse Burden Stelly, invite Dr. Takiyah Harper-Shipman, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Davidson College. Professor Harper-Shipman is particularly interested in the ways in which discourse structures political economies of development, human rights, and-more recently-gender. Her first book, Rethinking Ownership of Development in Africa (Routledge), examined how

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01:12:11

A Conversation w/ Charisse Burden-Stelly & Boots...

New Dawn ·

2021/01/27

In this special two-part series, the Race & Capitalism's Post-Graduate Fellow, Charisse Burden-Stelly, is in conversation with writer, rapper, director, and filmmaker, Boots Riley. Part II focuses on the new Biden administration, Riley's new show, "I'm a Virgo," being released by Amazon, and the future of labor organizing in the U.S. and around the world.

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01:35:05

A Conversation w/ Charisse Burden-Stelly & Boots...

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2021/01/27

In this special two-part series, the Race & Capitalism's Post-Graduate Fellow, Charisse Burden-Stelly, is in conversation with writer, rapper, director, and filmmaker, Boots Riley. Part I was produced and sponsored by the Claudia Jones School for Political Education.

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00:47:45

Neoliberalism and Gentrification in a Chocolate City

New Dawn ·

2021/01/22

In this episode of New Dawn, Michael Dawson invites Brandi Thompson Summers to the show. Summers is an Assistant Professor of Geography and Global Metropolitan Studies at the UC Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from UC Santa Cruz. Her research engages theoretical themes that cut across multiple domains of social life. Summers builds epistemological and methodological insights from cultural and urban geography, urban sociology, African American studies, and media studies by examining the

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00:46:47

Normalizing Foreclosure: Land, Credit, and Early...

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2020/12/16

K-Sue Park joins Michael Dawson to launch Season 5 of New Dawn. Park is an Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University. She has written extensively on foreclosure, land, dispossession, and displacement. Her publications have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, The History of the Present, Law & Social Inquiry, Law & Society Review, and the New York Times. (Due to some unavoidable technical issues, the beginning of the episode is a bit distorted. Thank you for your patience and for

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01:06:34

Anti-Black Violence and the Ongoing Fight for Freedom

New Dawn ·

2020/07/15

“Anti-Black Violence and the Ongoing Fight for Freedom” was a live conversation held on July 7, 2020. Megan Ming Francis moderated the discussion between Barbara Ransby, Juliet Hooker, and Vesla Weaver. They discuss what the current moment reveals, the power of radical imagination in black struggle, and how to keep the momentum. Selected Publications by these scholars: Francis, Megan Ming. Civil Rights and the Making of the American Modern State (2014). Hooker, Juliet. Theorizing Race in the

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00:49:05

Why Du Bois Still Matters

New Dawn ·

2020/07/09

In this episode, Michael Dawson chats with Charisse Burden-Stelly (Asst. Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Carleton College) about her research on W.E.B Du Bois, as well as lessons his scholarship has to offer as we think through building social movements today. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Gerald Horne, W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History Suggested Readings: Hannah Appel, The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea (2019) Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the

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00:57:44

COVID-19 and Racial Inequities: Unpacking the...

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2020/06/30

This episode is a recording of a conversation between Michael Dawson, Rhea Boyd, Aresha Martinez-Cardoso, and Brandi Summers during an event titled "COVID-19 and Racial Inequities: Unpacking the Anti-Black Response," on June 25, 2020. Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, FAAP works clinically at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation and teaches nationally on the relationship between structural racism, inequity and health, and has a decade of experience advancing community-based advocacy. She leads efforts to characterize

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00:42:28

Creating a Caring World

New Dawn ·

2020/02/05

Deva Woodly, an Associate Professor of Politics at the New School, discusses the movement for black lives and how to create a kinder world with Michael Dawson. “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare," Audre Lorde (A Burst of Light" and Other Essays) Suggested Readings and Links: Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinksy Read more about these individuals: Anna Julia Cooper Patrisse Cullors Asha Bandele Mary Hooks – Southerners on New

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00:46:59

Capitalism in Legal Studies

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2020/01/22

In this episode, Amna Akbar (Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University) discusses the imbrication of capitalism and social movements in legal studies today. Akbar, Amna, Toward a Radical Imagination of Law (July 25, 2018). New York Law Review, Vol. 93, No. 3. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3061917 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3061917 McLeod, Allegra M., "Prison Abolition and Grounded Justice" (2015). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 1490.

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00:48:13

King and His Fight for the Poor People's Campaign

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2019/12/18

Sylvie Laurent joins Michael Dawson in conversation about her recent publication, King and the Other America: The Poor People's Campaign and the Quest for Economic Equality (University of California Press, 2019). Suggested Readings: Bobby Cervantes, "Revisiting the Poor People's Campaign and Its Legacy" (AAIHS) Robert Greene II, "The Language of the Unheard" (The Nation) Kirkus Reviews, "King and the Other America" Sylvie Laurent, "Martin Luther King fifty years on" (Le Monde diplomatique) Sylvie

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00:40:25

The Poor Pay More

New Dawn ·

2019/11/13

Patricia Posey is Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago and the Political Science Department’s junior faculty member for the Race and Capitalism Project. She specializes in race and American political economy. In this episode, Posey joins Michael Dawson to talk about payday loans and financial capitalism. Related Readings: Fringe Banking: Check-Cashing Outlets, Pawnshops, and the Poor Book by John P. Caskey Shortchanged: Life and Debt in the Fringe Economy Book by Howard Jacob

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00:54:16

Housing and the Construction of the Black Urban Identity

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2019/10/21

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University) speaks with Michael Dawson about her new book, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. She talks about how black urban identity is constructed, why she is against homeownership, and how the housing crisis isn't a crisis but a feature of society. Link to Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership Further

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00:55:52

Neoliberal Economics and Race

New Dawn ·

2019/09/26

In this episode, Darrick Hamilton, the Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University, joins Michael Dawson to discuss neoliberal economics, inequality, an economic bill of rights, and reparations. Links: The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity Readings: Dawson, Michael and Megan Francis, “Black Politics and the Neoliberal Racial Order” Economic Policy Institute, “The Productivity-Pay Gap” Hamilton, Darrick in Democracy

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01:01:55

On the Resurgence of Nationalism

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2019/09/18

To commence Season 4, Michael Dawson invited Adom Getachew (University of Chicago) and Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley College) to speak about the discourse on nationalism. They discuss a recent issue of Dissent magazine, in which Getachew and Slobodian were both contributors, What is the Nation Good For? to start the conversation. They talk about the relationship between nationalism and populism; immigration politics; and more, including their recently published books Worldmaking After Empire (Getachew)

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00:44:57

Settler Colonialism in the Nuclear Age

New Dawn ·

2019/05/14

Iyko Day, Associate Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College, joins Michael Dawson to discuss her research on the logics of settler colonialism and waste landing, in addition to her takeaway from the 2019 Racial Capitalism Conference held at UIC-Urbana Champagne. Note: The guest would like to clarify her comment on the Shepard/Byrd hate crime bill—it was accompanied by a $680 billion national defense budget, not an 8 billion dollar increase as she had stated in the recording.

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