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Racial Capitalism
Organizing Committee: Jodi Byrd (English/Gender and Women's Studies); Lisa Marie Cacho (LLS); Brian Jefferson (Geography & GIS); Susan Koshy (English/Asian American Studies); Jodi Melamed (Marquette)
Full symposium schedule and details available here.
Racial Capitalism ColLab Events
"Racial Banishment: A Postcolonial Critique of the Urban Condition in America," a lecture by Ananya Roy (UCLA)
(March 5, Spring 2019)
This talk is concerned with processes of racial banishment, which I conceptualize as state-instituted violence against racialized bodies and communities. Breaking with narratives of neoliberalization, I foreground how dispossession and disposability are being remade in the contemporary American metropolis. Holding in simultaneous view black studies and postcolonial theory, I seek to pinpoint the workings of racial capitalism at both urban and global scales. Such frameworks also make possible the study of imaginations and practices that challenge banishment and insist on freedom. Thinking from postcolonial Los Angeles, I share examples of movements and struggles that work to dismantle the color-lines of the 21st century.
Racial Capitalism Symposium Schedule
Racial Capitalism
March 29-30, 2019
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
600 S Gregory St., Urbana, IL 61801
Friday, March 29
9:30-11:00 am: Keynote Address: Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Grad Center, CUNY)
“What is the Racial in Racial Capitalism? Magic, Partition, Politics”
11:00-11:15 am: Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 pm: Carceral Geographies of Empire
Chair: Gilberto Rosas (UIUC)
Ofelia Ortiz Cuevas (UC-Davis), “California Racial Capitalism”
Marisol LeBrón (U of Texas, Austin), “Policing Solidarity: Race, Violence, and the Lessons of the University of Puerto Rico Strikes”
12:45-2:00 pm: Lunch
2:00-3:30 pm: Undermining Indigenous Sovereignty: Techniques of Wastelanding and Welfare Provision
Chair: Jenny Davis (UIUC)
Iyko Day (Mt Holyoke), “Settler Colonialism’s Hiroshima”
Alyosha Goldstein (U of New Mexico), “There for the Taking: Colonial Entitlement and the Relations of Reproduction
3:30-3:40 pm: Coffee Break
3:40-6:00 pm: Film Screening: The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
Discussion and Q&A: Moderated by Lee Gaines (Education Reporter, NPR) and Brian Jefferson (UIUC)
Saturday, March 30
9:30-11:00 am: Keynote Address, Michael Dawson (U of Chicago)
“Race, Capitalism & the Current Crisis: Conundrums for Those Who Envisage a Socialist Future”
11:00-11:15 am: Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 pm: Racial Legacies of Debt, Development and Investment
Chair: Susan Koshy (UIUC)
Cheryl Harris (UC-Los Angeles), “Debt, Development and Dispossession: Afterlives of Slavery”
Kimberly Kay Hoang (U of Chicago), In Search of the Next "El Dorado": Mining for Capital in a Frontier Market with Colonial Legacies
12:45-2:00 pm: Lunch
2:00-3:30 pm: Racial Capitalism and Differential Rights
Chair: Jodi Byrd (UIUC)
Jodi Melamed (Marquette U) and Chandan Reddy (U of Washington), “Administrating Today’s Racial Capitalism Through Differential Rights”
Lisa Cacho (UIUC), “‘She Was Only Trying to Save Her Life’: Disempowered by Self-Defense”
3:30-3:45 pm: Coffee Break
3:45-5:15 pm: Racial Capitalism Now: A Conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Michael Dawson
Moderators: Brian Jefferson (UIUC) and Jodi Melamed (Marquette)
Presenter abstracts available here.