Wednesday, 20 March 2019 | 2:30pm to 4:30pm | Verney Room, South 674 Ross Building, York University

Barbara Foley, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University-Newark

While “intersectionality” has brought to the fore matters relating to gender, sexuality, (dis)ability and religious affiliation, Professor Foley will focus on those ramification of the relationship between race and class that connect up with debates between Marxism and identitarianism. Key issues/terms that will be covered and/or interrogated include: black radicalism and the black radical tradition; blackness and anti-blackness; whiteness, white supremacy and white privilege; racial capitalism; racial contract; classism.

Barbara Foley is distinguished Professor English at Rutgers University-Newark. Her areas of scholarly expertise include US literary radicalism, African American literature, and Marxist theory. Her most recent book is Marxist Literary Criticism Today (Pluto books, 2019). Starting in the early 1970s, she has a long history of activism in anti-racist, feminist and anti-imperialist movements. She served as President of the Radical Caucus in the Modern Language Association for two decades; she currently serves on the editorial board and manuscript collective of Science & Society.

This Department of Politics Seminar Series event is presented with support from the Marxist Studies in Global and Asian Perspective (MSGAP).