The Anti-Black, Anti-Communist Academia
Author and professor Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly discusses the history and institutionalization of Black Studies, the often overlapping relationship between anti-communism and anti-Blackness, and the 'elision' of political economy in the capitalist academy.
Groundings · Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly, Devyn Springer
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Show Notes
Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly discusses the history and institutionalization of Black Studies, the often overlapping relationship between anti-communism and anti-Blackness, and the 'elision' of political economy in capitalist academia.
Moreover, she also talks about 'academic McCarthyism', academic celebrities, ideological battles, and the current state of Black Studies.
[cover image: student activist Don McAllister beaten bloodied and arrested by pigs during San Francisco State College protests, 1968]