Dismantling Racial Capitalism aspires to create space to develop and sharpen our understanding of racial capitalism, how it functions, its horrific consequences, and, most importantly, how we can challenge and dismantle it. We will bring together academics, organizers, policy-makers, students and change-makers for a deeply-rooted examination of how racial capitalism drives inequality, exploitation, and destruction, and how we can catalyze change.
The urgency of confronting this inequality, exploitation and destruction, though, often leads us to focus on important, but small and more immediately “winnable’ campaigns for reform, given the significant limitations of our current power. But, fundamental change to the systems that create and sustain racial capitalism requires ambitious, long-term organizing and work to challenge the ways these systems and institutions are legitimized by the law. We will focus our attention on bridging divides between social movements and academia to, together, analyze and workshop the efforts of thinkers, organizers, and attorneys who are thinking and acting big, leading ambitious challenges to the status quo and dreaming and making a more just and equitable future.
Under the themes of housing, environmental justice and reparations, each discussion shares the following aims:
- Demonstrate how injustice follows from imperatives of capitalism and racial systems
- Highlight efforts and successful campaigns in dynamic campaign work, international examples
- identifying footholds to subvert and invert logic
Please join the Urban Democracy Lab, Center for Race, Inequality and the Law, the Action Lab, and the Initiative for Community Power at NYU Law for the inaugural Dismantling Racial Capitalism Convening
Thursday, December 1st, 2022
12:00 – 7:30 P.M
NYU School of Law
40 Washington Square South, Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
New York, NY 10012
