Featured writers: Charisse Burden-Stelly and Andrew W. Kahrl; Moderator: Arionne Nettles
The economic cost of racism is the subject for two historians whose work focuses on how capitalism costs Black people more than any other ethnic group.
Book signing times (all signings take place in the Winter Garden, 9th Floor)
🖊️Charisse Burden-Stelly: 2:30 – 2:50
🖊️Andrew W. Kahrl: 2:30 – 2:50
🖊️Arionne Nettles: 2:30 – 2:50
About the writers:
DR. CHARISSE BURDEN-STELLY is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University and a 2023-2024 Charles Warren Center Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. A scholar of critical Black studies, political theory, political economy, and intellectual history, 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 Writings and of Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State.
ANDREW W. KAHRL is professor of history and African American studies at the University of Virginia. He is the author of the books The Land Was Ours and Free the Beaches.
ARIONNE NETTLES is a lecturer at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. As a culture reporter in print and audio, her stories often look into Chicago history, culture, gun violence, policing and race & class disparities as a contributor to the New York Times Opinion, Chicago Reader, The Trace, Medium’s ZORA and Momentum, Chicago PBS station WTTW and NPR affiliate WBEZ. She is also host of Is That True? A Kids Podcast About Facts.
Get these books and more at the Festival!
Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States by Charisse Burden-Stelly
The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America by Andrew W. Kahrl
We Are the Culture: Black Chicago’s Influence on Everything by Arionne Nettles
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