New Dawn
43 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsMichael 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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Socialism and Empire: Labor, Migration, and Racial Politics
May 31, 2022 17:53 - 42 minutes - 78.1 MBInés 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 cosmopolitani...
Celebrating Charles W. Mills, 1951-2021 | Retheorizing (Racial) Justice
September 28, 2021 17:50 - 55 minutes - 102 MBWe 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 ...
Decolonizing Discourse about Africa: An Anti-Imperialist Framework
May 04, 2021 01:27 - 58 minutes - 106 MBIn 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 d...
A Conversation w/ Charisse Burden-Stelly & Boots Riley - Part II
January 27, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 132 MBIn 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.
A Conversation w/ Charisse Burden-Stelly & Boots Riley - Part I
January 27, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 174 MBIn 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.
Neoliberalism and Gentrification in a Chocolate City
January 22, 2021 20:12 - 47 minutes - 44.2 MBIn 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 exami...
Normalizing Foreclosure: Land, Credit, and Early Colonial Experiments
December 16, 2020 05:07 - 46 minutes - 43.3 MBK-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 tun...
Anti-Black Violence and the Ongoing Fight for Freedom
July 15, 2020 19:20 - 1 hour - 61.6 MB“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 ...
Why Du Bois Still Matters
July 09, 2020 20:53 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBIn 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 Voic...
COVID-19 and Racial Inequities: Unpacking the Anti-Black Response
June 30, 2020 17:26 - 57 minutes - 106 MBThis 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 cha...
Creating a Caring World
February 05, 2020 13:00 - 42 minutes - 77.8 MBDeva 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 – Southern...
Capitalism in Legal Studies
January 22, 2020 22:07 - 46 minutes - 86 MBIn 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. h...
King and His Fight for the Poor People's Campaign
December 18, 2019 12:00 - 48 minutes - 88.3 MBSylvie 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 diploma...
The Poor Pay More
November 13, 2019 12:00 - 40 minutes - 74 MBPatricia 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 H...
Housing and the Construction of the Black Urban Identity
October 21, 2019 14:04 - 54 minutes - 99.4 MBKeeanga-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 Furthe...
Retheorizing (Racial) Justice
October 09, 2019 14:09 - 102 MBMichael Dawson and Charles Mills discuss the relationship between capitalism and white supremacy, how philosophers can follow the examples set by political theorists, the manifestations of white supremacy in the academy, and more in this invigorating episode of New Dawn. Suggested Links For a biography on Charles Mills and more about his published work, click here. John Rawls's Collected Papers
Neoliberal Economics and Race
September 26, 2019 12:00 - 55 minutes - 102 MBIn 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 i...
On the Resurgence of Nationalism
September 18, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 113 MBTo 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 (G...
Settler Colonialism in the Nuclear Age
May 14, 2019 17:32 - 44 minutes - 82.3 MBIyko 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.
The “Irreconcilables”: Reforming Tax Policy to Maintain Racial Inequality
April 19, 2019 21:42 - 51 minutes - 95.2 MBJulia Ott, an associate professor of history at the New School, joins Michael Dawson to discuss the relationship between capital gains tax policy and Jim Crow, white wealth, the 1937 Conservative Movement Manifesto and financialization, and much more in a stimulating conversation in this episode.
Neoliberalism in Kenya's Schools
March 28, 2019 21:43 - 44 minutes - 80.7 MBWandia Njoya, Senior Lecturer at Daystar University in Kenya, joins Michael Dawson for a conversation about neoliberalism and the education system in Kenya. She also discusses her interest in environmental imperialism and racial capitalism as a useful perspective in her analyses and politics.
Global Markets, "the national economy," and the Licit Life of Capitalism
January 22, 2019 15:49 - 39 minutes - 72 MBProfessor Michael Dawson speaks with Hannah Appel (Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles) about her research on US oil companies. They begin discussing Appel's recent essay "Race Makes Markets: Subcontracting in the Transnational Oil Industry," which recently appeared in SSRC's Items series, and converse about Pan-African banking.
Dark Ghettos and the Articulation of Racial Capitalism
January 09, 2019 19:02 - 46 minutes - 85.5 MBTommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University, joins host Michael Dawson to discuss Shelby’s book “Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform,” in a conversation moderated by Adom Getachew, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. This conversation was part of a live discussion at the New School.
Expropriation, Exploitation, and the Neoliberal Racial Order
November 21, 2018 21:21 - 33 minutes - 60.9 MBIn the first episode of Season 3, Nancy Fraser, Henry A. & Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science at The New School, joins Michael Dawson in a moderated discussion on race, expropriation, and exploitation led by lawyer and doctoral student Mayra Cotta.
Colonialism and Wealth Extraction: Puerto Rico after Maria
August 29, 2018 17:15 - 28 minutes - 52.6 MBDue to the aftermath of Hurricane Maria that devasted Puerto Rico in 2017, Puerto Rican scholars were invited to continue their research agendas at the University of Chicago. Joining the New Dawn Podcast is Professor Evaluz Cotto Quijano, Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez. Professor Quijano explains how U.S. financial institutions and creditors continue to identify and extract resources from Puerto Rico.
Affordable Housing in the age of Financialization
August 07, 2018 00:03 - 45 minutes - 83.3 MBIn the latest episode of New Dawn, Michael Dawson welcomes John Robinson, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. Robinson's work examines how macro-economic changes have redefined politics of race, poverty and neighborhood inequality within and around American cities.
Mestizaje, Skin Color, and Capitalist Development in Mexico
March 27, 2018 21:48 - 46 minutes - 84.9 MBOn location in Mexico City, Mexico, Michael Dawson engages Federico Navarrete, Professor at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) on understanding the intersection of race and capitalism in Mexico.
Black Liberation and the Crisis of Capital
February 16, 2018 02:37 - 47 minutes - 87.1 MBAbdul Alkalimat, Professor Emeritus of African-American Studies and Information Sciences, joins the New Dawn Podcast and discusses the role of black intellectuals and their relationships with liberation movements.
Histories of Racial Capitalism: Urban Renewal, Racial Segregation, and Redevelopment
January 05, 2018 18:10 - 45 minutes - 83.2 MBDestin Jenkins, Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor and incoming Assistant Professor of U.S. History at the University of Chicago, joins the New Dawn Podcast to discuss the emergence of histories of racial capitalism. Jenkins insightfully examines the role of the state in the displacement of people of color and the accumulation and distribution of wealth in San Francisco.
The Public University: Abel Valenzuela on Public Responsibility, Labor, and Organizing
December 19, 2017 18:30 - 35 minutes - 65.8 MBOn location at UCLA, Professor Abel Valenzuela joins the New Dawn Podcast to talk about the role of labor, organizing, and the public university more broadly during the current presidential administration.
Transnational Histories: Global Aspects to Racial Capitalism
November 10, 2017 23:54 - 41 minutes - 76.2 MBKicking off Season 2, Michael Dawson welcomes Ananya Roy, Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare and Geography and inaugural Director of The Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin. Prof. Roy discusses her approaches to the study of Racial Capitalism by engaging Post-Colonial Feminism and building community at UCLA. She spearheaded the effort to organize a conference on Race and Capitalism with all of the centers focused on advancing the study of race, ethnicity, and social ...
Neoliberalism and Black Politics - Part II
August 21, 2017 17:30 - 47 minutes - 109 MBLester Spence, Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University, joins the New Dawn Podcast and extends the conversation around using a neoliberal lens and the history of financialization to study black communities. (Note: Original image was from the Ferguson protests and mistakenly posted.)
Neoliberalism and/or Neocolonialism in Black Politics?
August 09, 2017 02:27 - 52 minutes - 120 MBProf. Michael Dawson welcomes Nathan Connolly, Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, to the New Dawn Podcast. In this episode, they discuss the value and utility of theoretically and pragmatically engaging concepts like neoliberalism, on one hand, and neocolonialism, on the other.
Flip'n the Script: Michael Dawson, Beyond Linked Fated, and the Roots to Racial Capitalism
June 19, 2017 02:32 - 45 minutes - 105 MBIn this special episode, Prof. Megan Ming Francis, political scientist from the University of Washington, flips the script and engages Prof. Michael Dawson about his journey through activism and academia. Ranging from challenging institutions, returning to higher education, and where Dawson sees the state of the discipline since offering the Linked Fate measure and framework.
Reframing Salvadoran Modernity: Race, Power, and Neoliberalism
June 08, 2017 01:37 - 1 hour - 143 MBProfessor Michael Dawson welcomes to the New Dawn podcast Dr. Raul Moreno Campos, Lecturer in Political Science at California State University - Channel Islands. Moreno Campos discusses the development of an authoritarian regime and the Civil War in El Salvador and its implications for global capitalism.
Bankers and Empire: The Caribbean, Capital, and Race
May 28, 2017 04:14 - 42 minutes - 98.3 MBPeter Hudson, Assistant Professor of African American Studies at UCLA, discusses his new book, Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean, and uncovering a lost history of wealth in the Caribbean.
Trump's Mafia Capitalism and the Crisis in American Politics
May 22, 2017 16:10 - 42 minutes - 97.2 MBIn this episode, Michael Dawson welcomes Prof. Kaushik S. Rajan, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of 3CT at the University of Chicago. For Rajan, the current Trump administration resembles a form of mafia capitalism and he urges both parties to stop being complicit in the decline of American democracy.
The Rise of the Carceral State: Prisoner Organizing, Politicization, and Surplus Labor
March 28, 2017 23:13 - 39 minutes - 90.4 MBIn this episode, Michael Dawson talks with Toussaint Losier, Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, about the role of prisoner organizing and its influence on local mobilizations and protests.
Racial Capitalism: Globalism, Empire, and War
March 21, 2017 07:30 - 44 minutes - 102 MBMichael Dawson meets with Nikhil Singh, Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU and Adom Getachew, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago to discuss the role of colonization and empire in developing the connection between race and capitalism.
Displacement, Capital, and the International Bourgeoisie
February 21, 2017 18:41 - 39 minutes - 89.9 MBProfessor Michael Dawson engages UC Berkeley Assistant Professor of African American studies, Tianna Paschel, about the parallels between rising populism in Colombia and Brazil and its relationship to domestic politics in the US.
Black History: Fighting Selective Amnesia About Race and Capitalism
January 18, 2017 03:52 - 40 minutes - 93.2 MBMichael Dawson discusses the historical struggles between advancing social movements and funding activism with Assistant Professor Megan Ming Francis.
Dark Times & Black Workers
January 02, 2017 19:57 - 40 minutes - 93.5 MBMichael Dawson discusses the state of black workers and unions with Dr. Steven Pitts, Associate Chair of the U.C. Berkeley Labor Center.
The Gentlemen from MIT
December 03, 2016 04:20 - 53 minutes - 122 MBMichael Dawson, Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago, in conversation with J. Phillip Thompson, Professor of Urban Planning, and Jason Jackson, Lecturer in the Department of Urban Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, covering the aftermath of the 2016 Presidential election and its relationship to race and capitalism.