Black Left with Charisse Burden-Stelly

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Dan interviews Charisse Burden-Stelly on racial capitalism, the history of the US Black left, and the US government's Red Scare attacks on Black radicals. Read Burden-Stelly's work Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: Some Theoretical Insights Black Cold War Liberalism as an Agency Reduction Formation during the Late 1940s and the Early 1950s Constructing Deportable Subjectivity: Antiforeignness, Antiradicalism, and Antiblackness during the McCarthyist Structure of Feeling Caste Does Not Explain Race The Absence of Political Economy in African Diaspora Studies Meet with Charisse Burden-Stelly at the Dig's last Book Club event thedigradio.com/dig-book-club Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

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1:43.8	Denver and a broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. This week, my guest is the scholar
1:49.6	Sharice Burton Steley and we're talking about some intertwined issues that she works on.
1:54.9	Racial capitalism, the history of black leftism, and how the US state combined anti-communism and
2:02.8	anti-black racism to repress the black left. We cover a lot of ground in this interview because
2:09.4	Burton Steley covers a whole lot of ground in her work and I will link to some of that work
2:14.4	that I read to prepare for this interview in the show notes. I highly recommend that you give it a
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