Thursday, November 17, 2022 4:30 PM EST
Merten Hall, #1203
Join us in person or via Zoom for the final event of our Fall 2022 Colloquium series, featuring Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean!
In this discussion of Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing, editors Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean draw on the work of the women profiled in the volume to offer an analysis of radical organizing and theorizing in the first half of the twentieth century and its relevance for our current moment. They engage a number of issues, including the role of Black women in shaping the theory and organizing of the CPUSA in the first half of the twentieth century; how radical Black women’s “triple oppression” grounded their socialism, anti-fascism, antiimperialism, and anti-racism; and the importance of their praxis to waging struggle in the twenty-first century.
Charisse Burden-Stelly is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Carleton College. She is the author, with Gerald Horne, of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Life in American History.
Jodi Dean teaches political, feminist, and media theory in Geneva, New York. She has written or edited thirteen books, including The Communist Horizon and Crowds and Party.
