New Book: Social Reproduction Theory – Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression
Edited by Tithi Bhattacharya. From Pluto Press: This groundbreaking collection explores the profound power of Socia
New Book: Black Liberation and the American Dream – The Struggle for Racial and Economic Justice
Edited by Paul Le Blanc. From Haymarket Books: Analysing intersections of race, class, and gender alongside primary t
New Book: C.L.R. James – The Artist As Revolutionary
by Paul Buhle. From Verso: C. L. R. James was a protean twentieth-century Marxist intellectual, widely recognized as a
New Book: The Color of Money – Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
By Mehrsa Baradaran. From Harvard University Press: When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black
New Book: The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain
by Ron Ramdin. From Verso: In this pioneering history, Ron Ramdin traces the roots of Britain’s disadvantaged black wo
New Book: The Hidden Rules of Race – Barriers to an Inclusive Economy
By Andrea Flynn, Susan R. Holmberg, Dorian T. Warren, and Felicia J. Wong. From Cambridge University Press: Why do blac
New Book: Futures of Black Radicalism
Edited by Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin. From Verso: Black rebellion has returned. Dramatic protests have risen
New Book: For-Profit Universities – The Shifting Landscape of Marketized Higher Education
From Palgrave. Edited by Tressie McMillan Cottom & William A. Darity Jr This edited volume proposes that the phe
White Working-Class Voters and the Future of Progressive Politics
by Michael Zweig Rather than speaking of the working class in terms that reduce it to only categories of race and gender,
CALL FOR PAPERS: Freedom and Justice – Jobs, Economic Security, and Inclusion
The National Economic Association (NEA) and the American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE) announce and invite p
EPI: Low-wage African American workers have increased annual work hours most since 1979
by Valerie Wilson & Janelle Jones Over the last several decades, black workers have been offering more to the econo
Podcasts on Race and Wealth
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Racial Capitalism: Globalism, Empire, and War
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Mike Davis on Trump and the White Working Class
by Mike Davis, History has been hacked. Trump’s “impossible” victories in June and November, together with the stunni
New book by Michelle Holder: African American Men and the Labor Market during the Great Recession
From Palgrave: This book analyzes the status and position of African American men in the U.S. labor market prior to, dur
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: The Politics of the Oppressed
Ahead of the Women’s March on Washington, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of rom #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberat
“JOBS FOR ALL”: Another Dream of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
By Mathew Forstater Not many folks remember that the 1963 “March on Washington” was officially named the “March on Wash
New Book by Ornette D. Clennon: The Polemics of C.L.R. James and Contemporary Black Activism
From Palgrave: This book draws on case examples of contemporary black activism in South Manchester and contrasts them
New Working Paper by Nancy Folbre: Just Deserts? Earnings Inequality and Bargaining Power in the U.S. Economy
From the abstract: Harvard economist Gregory Mankiw defends the high earnings of the top one percent in the U.S. with a t