Dr. Jonathan Tran, "An Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Competing Models of Anti-Racist Thought"
Colloquium Series
- Date:
- Apr 14, 2023 - 03:00pm
- Location:
- Sociology Commons (SSCI 1061)
Presenter/s:
Dr. Jonathan Tran, Associate Professor of Great Texts (Theological Ethics) at Baylor University. Dr. Tran also serves as associate Dean for Faculty of the Honors College. He is the author of Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitaliam (OUP, 2022).
"Stuart Hall, Where'd You Go? Identity Politics and Antiracism's Debasements"
The discussion presents Stuart Hall's classic formulation "race is the modality in which class is lived" as a missed opportunity in critical theory, showing how antiracism failed to take seriously the inflection point Hall highlighted. Instead, anti-racism folded under the very racial capitalism Hall challenged. We will discuss how Asian Americans are similarly positioned as miner's canaries within America's conversations about race and racism, and how that position can yield critical insights and promulgate prograssive politics.
