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Third Worlds Within: Possible Histories of Solidarity and Struggle
February 21, 2024 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
WEDNESDAY February 21, 2024
5:00 pm- 6:30 pm
New York University
20 Cooper Sq New York, NY 10003
3rd FI Suite
In 1880, Karl Marx wrote his friend Friedrich Sorge to ask for an update on economic conditions in California. “California is very important for me,” Marx told the founder of America’s oldest socialist party, “because nowhere else has the upheaval most shamelessly caused by capitalist centralization taken place with such speed. This “shameless upheaval” forms the backdrop for this talk, which takes interconnected processes of African enslavement, Native genocide and mass Asian migration to 19th Century California as a point of departure for examining historic interactions among communities of color, the effect of U.S. racial capitalism upon these communities, and the subsequent rise of multiracial, interethnic mobilizations against U.S. racism and empire.
