On Thursday and Friday, June 25th and 26th, as protests and police rioting continue to convulse the U.S. after the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, BISR conducted a two-day teach-in, in which BISR faculty explored issues and concepts that directly address, or help contextualize, the crisis of American racism, criminal justice, and dispossession.
On day one, BISR faculty Nara Roberta Silva, Raphaele Chappe and Ajay Singh Chaudhary, and Patrick Blanchfield addressed, in turn, the concept of Racial Capitalism (focusing especially on Cedric J. Robinson's Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition), the interworkings of neoliberal politics and finance, and the imperial roots and market-enforcing character of American policing.
