This event was co-hosted with Boston Review.
In recent years, condemnations of racism in America have echoed from the streets to corporate boardrooms. At the same time, politicians and commentators fiercely debate racism’s very existence. And so, our conversations about racial inequalities remain muddled.
In her new book, "Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives - and How We Break Free", pioneering scholar Tricia Rose cuts through the noise with a bracing and invaluable new account of what systemic racism actually is, how it works, and how we can fight back. She reveals how - from housing to education to criminal justice - an array of policies and practices connect and interact to produce an even more devastating “metaracism” far worse than the sum of its parts. While these systemic connections can be difficult to see - and are often portrayed as “color-blind” - again and again they function to disproportionately contain, exploit, and punish Black people.
In conversation with Robin D.G. Kelley, Rose helps us to better comprehend systemic racism’s inner workings and destructive impacts - and how to break free and create a more just world.
Tricia Rose is Chancellor’s Professor of Africana Studies and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University. She is author of three books, including the award-winning scholarly analysis of hip hop and its sequel, The Hip Hop Wars.
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Robin D. G. Kelley is Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA, a contributing editor at Boston Review, and the author of many books, including Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination and Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression.
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