African American Studies

Name: John Majewski, Living Democracy in Capitalism’s Shadow: Creative Labor, Black Abolitionists, and the Struggle to End Slavery
Start: 2020-10-08T16:00:00-07:00
End: 2020-10-08T17:00:00-07:00
Location: Zoom

November 2019
November 22, 2019 @ 1:00 pm

David Stein, “Containing Keynesianism in an Age of Civil Rights: Jim Crow Monetary Policy and the Struggle for Guaranteed Jobs, 1956-1979”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy's "The Political Economy of Racial Inequality" Fall Quarter speaker series, David Stein (African American Studies, University of California Los Angeles) will present "Containing Keynesianism in an Age of Civil Rights: Jim Crow Monetary Policy and the Struggle for Guaranteed Jobs, 1956-1979." […]
February 2020
February 14, 2020 @ 1:00 pm

Ronny Regev, “‘We Want No More Economic Islands’: The Mobilization of the Black Consumer Market in the Postwar US”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

On February 14 Ronny Regev (History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) presents, "'We Want No More Economic Islands': The Mobilization of the Black Consumer Market in the Postwar US." WWII ushered in an era of economic growth in the United States, which enshrined consumption as an integral part of liberal citizenship. African Americans were often excluded […]
October 2020
October 8, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

John Majewski, Living Democracy in Capitalism’s Shadow: Creative Labor, Black Abolitionists, and the Struggle to End Slavery

Zoom CA

REGISTER NOW Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link In the two decades before the Civil War, a new type of capitalism developed in the northern United States that stressed mass education, widespread innovation, and new markets for art and design. For Black abolitionists, the changing northern economy presented new opportunities […]

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African American Studies

November 2019

David Stein, “Containing Keynesianism in an Age of Civil Rights: Jim Crow Monetary Policy and the Struggle for Guaranteed Jobs, 1956-1979”

February 2020

Ronny Regev, “‘We Want No More Economic Islands’: The Mobilization of the Black Consumer Market in the Postwar US”

October 2020

John Majewski, Living Democracy in Capitalism’s Shadow: Creative Labor, Black Abolitionists, and the Struggle to End Slavery

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