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Black Politics and the American Left

Platypus 2016 convention

June 18, 2016 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Held on Saturday April 2, 2016. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Christoph Lichtenberg (IBT) Xavier Danae Maatra (Chicago Freedom School) Description Beneath a consensus of avowed anti-racism, the American Left remains conflicted about whether and how to politicize race. This panel seeks to shed historical light on today’s political impasses, asking: How has racism changed throughout U.S. history, and to what degree has racism been overcome in America? [Read More]

Marxism through the back door

September 1, 2015 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

GREGOR BASZAK of the Platypus Affiliated Society conducted an interview with Cedric Johnson, author of From Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics (2007). What follows is an edited transcript of their conversation. Stokely Carmichael lecturing on Pan-Africanism in the 1960s. Gregor Baszak: Most on the Left claim that the recent cases of police violence suffered by Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, and others are racially motivated. [Read More]

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Black Politics and State Violence: A Panel Discussion - University of Chicago

May 22, 2015 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

A panel held on May 21st, 2015 at the University of Chicago, hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC). Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Michael Dawson Mel Rothenberg Description The widely publicized killings of black men by police and the resulting movement with its slogan “Black Lives Matter” put back on the agenda of a beleaguered American Left a seemingly perennial question, one that evokes a long history of struggle, longing, and disappointment. [Read More]

University of Chicago Police Race Racism

Black Politics and State Violence: A Panel Discussion - UCSC

May 22, 2015 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists include Boots Riley of the Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club, Clarence Thomas formerly of ILWU, and Nancy Kato of the Freedom Socialist Party. This event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Platypus Affiliated Society, Politics Department, College 9, CAO/Provost, and the Student Union Assembly. Description The recent, widely publicized killings of unarmed black men – most notably Michael Brown and Eric Garner – and the resulting movement with its slogan “Black Lives Matter”, puts back on the agenda of a beleaguered American Left an old, yet seemingly perennial question, one that evokes a long history of struggle, longing, and disappointment; with a black president in the White House having survived or co-opted the Occupy Movement, the return of the Black Question to the forefront of the Left’s concerns seems to justify the suspicion that America is fundamentally, perhaps irredeemably, racist. [Read More]

Santa Cruz Media Police Race Racism

The American Left And The "Black Question"

From politics to protest to the post-political

April 22, 2015 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

A moderated panel discussion held at the Seventh Annual Platypus International Convention. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Toby Chow (University of Chicago) Brandon Johnson (Chicago Teachers Union) August Nimtz (University of Minnesota) Adolph Reed, Jr. (University of Pennsylvania) Moderated by Brendan Finucane. Description Beneath a consensus of avowed anti-racism, the American Left remains conflicted about whether and how to politicize race. [Read More]

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Platypus NYC Black Politics And State Violence

March 15, 2015 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

A panel hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society, in conjunction with the SVA Black Student Union, on 11 March 2015, at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Benjamin Blumberg (Platypus Affiliated Society) Eljeer Hawkins (Socialist Alternative/CWI) Dread Scott (Artist) Moderated by Allison Hewitt Ward (Platypus). Introduced by Tiffany Freeman (SVA Black Student Union). Description The widely publicized killings of black men by police and the resulting movement with its slogan “Black Lives Matter” puts back on the agenda of a beleaguered American Left a seemingly perennial question, one that evokes a long history of struggle, longing, and disappointment. [Read More]

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Black nationalism and the legacy of Malcolm X

November 1, 2011 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

LAST FALL, EDITOR SPENCER A. LEONARD interviewed Michael Dawson, Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago. The interview, which centered around a discussion of Manning Marable’s new biography of Malcolm X, was broadcast on September 30, 2011 on the radio show Radical Minds on WHPK – FM Chicago. What follows is a revised and edited transcript of the interview. SL: Like many others in recent months, you have contributed to the controversy raging around Manning Marable’s book Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. [Read More]

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Immigration and the Left

August 31, 2011 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

JEREMY COHAN PUBLICLY INTERVIEWED DAVID WILSON, coauthor of The Politics of Immigration (2007), on April 19th, 2011 at NYU. The original description of the event reads: “Mass marches on May Day 2006 in the U.S., banning of minarets in Switzerland, pogroms in Libya against blacks from Central Africa feared to be mercenaries: Immigration is a central issue faced by the contemporary Left. But as mobilization has waxed and waned, the question of what constitutes an emancipatory response to the problems of immigration in modern society too often remains unaddressed. [Read More]

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Book Review: Adolph Reed Jr. and Kenneth W. Warren, eds., _Renewing Black Intellectual History_

September 12, 2010 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2010 IN A 2005 COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS, Howard Zinn urged the graduates of Spelman College to look beyond conventional success and follow the tradition set by courageous rebels: “W.E.B. Dubois and Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and Marian Wright Edelman, and James Baldwin and Josephine Baker.”1 At first, Zinn’s lineage feels like an omnium-gatherum. Compare Malcolm X’s “by any means necessary” militarism to Marian Edelman’s milquetoast non-profit advocacy –“by any grant-writing or lobbying necessary” – and the incoherence stands out. [Read More]

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Book Review: Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

March 15, 2010 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

IT IS NO COINCIDENCE that there is a new English translation1 of Black Skin, White Masks (Peau Noire, Masques Blancs (1952), hereafter BSWM), since in this first book, Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) himself believed that the fight against racism had nowhere found more succor than in the United States. Fanon poetically describes the shorn “curtain of the sky” over the battlefield after the Civil War that first reveals the monumental vision of a white man “hand in hand” with a black man (196). [Read More]

Alienation Anti-imperialism Frantz Fanon Sigmund Freud Psychoanalysis Race Racism Colonialism post-colonialism