Tuesday, February 11, 2025
12:00 - 2:00 pm
820 Social Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA
Scholars Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean discuss their co-edited work, Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing, and Dean’s forthcoming Capital’s Grave: Neofeudalism. The talk will explore the links between anti-Black, anti-communist, and anti-Palestinian repression and responses to repression in the current authoritarian crisis. Pegasus Books will be tabling at the event with copies of Organize, Fight, Win.
This talk is part of a week-long residency in the Department of African American Studies under the Banned Scholars Project.
Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. Her research and scholarship engage the Black radical tradition, 20th century Black social and political thought, the intersection of antiblack racial oppression and U.S. state repression, and globalization and economic development in the African diaspora. She is the author of Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States, the co-author of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History, and the co-editor of Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writingsand of Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State.Dr. Burden-Stelly’s writings appear in peer-reviewed journals including Small Axe, Souls, Du Bois Review, Socialism & Democracy, International Journal of Africana Studies, CLR James Journal, and American Communist History. Her public scholarship can be found in publications such as Essence magazine, The Nation, Monthly Review, Teen Vogue, Boston Review, Black Perspectives, and Black Agenda Report.She is a member of the Black Alliance for Peace and Community Movement Builders.
Jodi Dean is Professor of Politics at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Communist Horizon, Crowds and Party, Comrade, and Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing, co-edited with Charisse Burden-Stelly. Her book Capital’s Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle will appear in March 2025 from Verso.
Co-sponsors: Gender and Women’s Studies, Ethnic Studies, Center for Race and Gender, Social Sciences Matrix, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues