Economic Update: Ukraine, Race and Class

[S12 E11] Ukraine, Race and Class

This week's show on Economic Update, Prof. Wolff talks about the emerging new world order, Ukraine and inflation, and the economics of sanctions. On the second half of the show, Wolff is joined by Prof. Adolph Reed, Jr. to discuss race, class and the US left.

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About our Guest: Adolph Reed Jr. is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught at Howard, Yale, and Northwestern Universities, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the New School for Social Research. He has been a Carnegie Corporation Scholar of Vision (2002/3), John J. McCloy’16 Visiting Professor at Amherst College (1998/99) and the inaugural Scholar in Residence, McKenna Center for Leadership, St. Francis Xavier University, November 11-19, 2019. He is the editor of Race, Politics and Culture: Critical Essays on the Radicalism of the 1960s (Greenwood Press, 1986) and Without Justice for All: The New Liberalism and our Retreat from Racial Equality (Westview, 1999) and with Kenneth W. Warren of Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought (Paradigm, 2010). He is author of The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon: The Crisis of Purpose in Afro-American Politics (Yale Press, 1986); W.E.B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism & the Color Line (Oxford University Press, 1997) Stirrings in the Jug: Black American Politics in the Post-Segregation Era (University of Minnesota Press, 1999), Class Notes ( New Press, 2000), a collection of his popular political writing) and The South: Jim Crow and its Afterlives (Verso), rumination on the last decades of the Jim Crow order. He is currently completing two books -- “You Can’t Get There from Here” a critique of black cultural studies with Kenneth Warren (Routledge) and “When Compromises Come Home to Roost: The Decline and Transformation of the U. S. Left” (Verso). He has been a columnist in The Progressive, The Village Voice, and The New Republic and has written frequently in The Nation, Dissent, nonsite.org, of which he is an editorial board member.
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SOURCES FOR SHOW SEGMENTS
* Russia: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-crisis-kicks-off-new-superpower-struggle-among-u-s-russia-and-china-11645629753?mod=itp_wsj&ru=yahoo&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top
* Ukraine and inflation: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/02/how-invasion-may-hit-u-s-global-economies/
* The economics of sanctions: https://blog.yalebooks.com/2022/02/24/the-history-of-economic-sanctions-as-a-tool-of-war/

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