Charisse Burden-Stelly is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. Her work interrogates the transnational entanglements of U.S. racial capitalism, anticommunism, and antiblack structural racism, with a second area of focus examining twentieth-century Black anticapitalist thought with a particular focus on W.E.B. Du Bois and scholar activists in his intellectual community. Dr. Burden-Stelly is co-author, with Dr. Gerald Horne, of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History, and she is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Black Scare/Red Scare: Antiblackness, Anticommunism, and the Rise of Capitalism in the United States, in which she examines the rise of the United States to global hegemony between World War I and the early Cold War at the intersection of racial capitalism, Wall Street imperialism, anticommunism, and antiblackness. She also edited (with Jodi Dean), Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing.
***This is a paper workshop, not a formal presentation. If you plan to attend, please email Jared Rabinowitz at rabinowitz.43@buckeyemail.osu.edu to receive the draft paper.***
There will also be a graduate student meeting with Prof. Burden-Stelly on Monday morning (9/26) at 9:45am in Derby Hall 2174 (The Reading Room).
