Racial Capitalism and Black Working Class History of the Long 1980s and Beyond

Donna Murch speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session will focus on racial capitalism and the Black working class in the late twentieth-century United States through today, with special attention to the 1980s. Historian Donna Murch will cover the importance of the public sector to Black workers, the consequences of intra-racial class stratification, and how the framing of the underclass hid the consequences of economic restructuring by blaming its victims. Finally, the talk will highlight multi-racial labor militancy in the context of the Reagan and Bush presidencies. Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org. Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow Haymarket on Soundcloud for regular event recordings, book talks, political analyses and poetry readings: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks