BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Marxist Education Project - ECPv6.16.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Marxist Education Project X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://marxedproject.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Marxist Education Project REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Halifax BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20130310T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20131103T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20140309T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20141102T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20150308T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20151101T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20160313T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20161106T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20170312T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20171105T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20180311T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20181104T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20190310T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20191103T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20200308T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20201101T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20210314T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20211107T050000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201208T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201208T203000 DTSTAMP:20200804T030106Z CREATED:20200804T030106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T030106Z UID:10006792-1607452200-1607459400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened by The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern\nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nTheodore W Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, particularly Volume 2\, subtitled The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America\, has been widely recognized by activists and scholars alike as a seminal work and deeply radical history. Allen was drawn to study of the “white” race by his engagement in the movements of his time; in West Virginia coal mines\, the Congress of Industrial Organization\, the Communist Party\, the Civil Rights/Black Liberation/anti-war and student led movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and his reading of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. Allen had concluded by the mid 1960’s that white supremacism was the central obstacle to progressive movements in American life\, past and present\, yet the “white” race itself remained the most peculiar\, contentious and generally misunderstood “identity\,” blocking all efforts to achieve a just society. Accordingly\, Allen spent the next 40 years in writing and primary research to discern when\, where\, how and why the Plantation Bourgeoisie invented this “white” race in colonial Virginia and Maryland (and how and why it has been maintained since then). Through a careful reading of this text supported by discussion\, a new narrative of our history emerges that offers strategic guidance to the momentous struggles now unfolding. \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for more information. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-2/2020-12-08/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Gender,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/WhiteSupreme2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201201T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201201T203000 DTSTAMP:20200804T030106Z CREATED:20200804T030106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T030106Z UID:10006791-1606847400-1606854600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened by The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern\nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nTheodore W Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, particularly Volume 2\, subtitled The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America\, has been widely recognized by activists and scholars alike as a seminal work and deeply radical history. Allen was drawn to study of the “white” race by his engagement in the movements of his time; in West Virginia coal mines\, the Congress of Industrial Organization\, the Communist Party\, the Civil Rights/Black Liberation/anti-war and student led movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and his reading of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. Allen had concluded by the mid 1960’s that white supremacism was the central obstacle to progressive movements in American life\, past and present\, yet the “white” race itself remained the most peculiar\, contentious and generally misunderstood “identity\,” blocking all efforts to achieve a just society. Accordingly\, Allen spent the next 40 years in writing and primary research to discern when\, where\, how and why the Plantation Bourgeoisie invented this “white” race in colonial Virginia and Maryland (and how and why it has been maintained since then). Through a careful reading of this text supported by discussion\, a new narrative of our history emerges that offers strategic guidance to the momentous struggles now unfolding. \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for more information. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-2/2020-12-01/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Gender,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/WhiteSupreme2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201124T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201124T203000 DTSTAMP:20200804T030106Z CREATED:20200804T030106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T030106Z UID:10006790-1606242600-1606249800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened by The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern\nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nTheodore W Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, particularly Volume 2\, subtitled The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America\, has been widely recognized by activists and scholars alike as a seminal work and deeply radical history. Allen was drawn to study of the “white” race by his engagement in the movements of his time; in West Virginia coal mines\, the Congress of Industrial Organization\, the Communist Party\, the Civil Rights/Black Liberation/anti-war and student led movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and his reading of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. Allen had concluded by the mid 1960’s that white supremacism was the central obstacle to progressive movements in American life\, past and present\, yet the “white” race itself remained the most peculiar\, contentious and generally misunderstood “identity\,” blocking all efforts to achieve a just society. Accordingly\, Allen spent the next 40 years in writing and primary research to discern when\, where\, how and why the Plantation Bourgeoisie invented this “white” race in colonial Virginia and Maryland (and how and why it has been maintained since then). Through a careful reading of this text supported by discussion\, a new narrative of our history emerges that offers strategic guidance to the momentous struggles now unfolding. \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for more information. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-2/2020-11-24/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Gender,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/WhiteSupreme2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201117T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201117T203000 DTSTAMP:20200804T030106Z CREATED:20200804T030106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T030106Z UID:10006789-1605637800-1605645000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened by The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern\nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nTheodore W Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, particularly Volume 2\, subtitled The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America\, has been widely recognized by activists and scholars alike as a seminal work and deeply radical history. Allen was drawn to study of the “white” race by his engagement in the movements of his time; in West Virginia coal mines\, the Congress of Industrial Organization\, the Communist Party\, the Civil Rights/Black Liberation/anti-war and student led movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and his reading of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. Allen had concluded by the mid 1960’s that white supremacism was the central obstacle to progressive movements in American life\, past and present\, yet the “white” race itself remained the most peculiar\, contentious and generally misunderstood “identity\,” blocking all efforts to achieve a just society. Accordingly\, Allen spent the next 40 years in writing and primary research to discern when\, where\, how and why the Plantation Bourgeoisie invented this “white” race in colonial Virginia and Maryland (and how and why it has been maintained since then). Through a careful reading of this text supported by discussion\, a new narrative of our history emerges that offers strategic guidance to the momentous struggles now unfolding. \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for more information. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-2/2020-11-17/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Gender,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/WhiteSupreme2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201110T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201110T203000 DTSTAMP:20200804T030106Z CREATED:20200804T030106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T030106Z UID:10006788-1605033000-1605040200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened by The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern\nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nTheodore W Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, particularly Volume 2\, subtitled The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America\, has been widely recognized by activists and scholars alike as a seminal work and deeply radical history. Allen was drawn to study of the “white” race by his engagement in the movements of his time; in West Virginia coal mines\, the Congress of Industrial Organization\, the Communist Party\, the Civil Rights/Black Liberation/anti-war and student led movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and his reading of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. Allen had concluded by the mid 1960’s that white supremacism was the central obstacle to progressive movements in American life\, past and present\, yet the “white” race itself remained the most peculiar\, contentious and generally misunderstood “identity\,” blocking all efforts to achieve a just society. Accordingly\, Allen spent the next 40 years in writing and primary research to discern when\, where\, how and why the Plantation Bourgeoisie invented this “white” race in colonial Virginia and Maryland (and how and why it has been maintained since then). Through a careful reading of this text supported by discussion\, a new narrative of our history emerges that offers strategic guidance to the momentous struggles now unfolding. \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for more information. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-2/2020-11-10/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Gender,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/WhiteSupreme2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201103T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201103T203000 DTSTAMP:20200804T030106Z CREATED:20200804T030106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T030106Z UID:10006787-1604428200-1604435400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened by The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern\nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nTheodore W Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, particularly Volume 2\, subtitled The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America\, has been widely recognized by activists and scholars alike as a seminal work and deeply radical history. Allen was drawn to study of the “white” race by his engagement in the movements of his time; in West Virginia coal mines\, the Congress of Industrial Organization\, the Communist Party\, the Civil Rights/Black Liberation/anti-war and student led movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and his reading of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. Allen had concluded by the mid 1960’s that white supremacism was the central obstacle to progressive movements in American life\, past and present\, yet the “white” race itself remained the most peculiar\, contentious and generally misunderstood “identity\,” blocking all efforts to achieve a just society. Accordingly\, Allen spent the next 40 years in writing and primary research to discern when\, where\, how and why the Plantation Bourgeoisie invented this “white” race in colonial Virginia and Maryland (and how and why it has been maintained since then). Through a careful reading of this text supported by discussion\, a new narrative of our history emerges that offers strategic guidance to the momentous struggles now unfolding. \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for more information. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-2/2020-11-03/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Gender,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/WhiteSupreme2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201027T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201027T203000 DTSTAMP:20200804T030106Z CREATED:20200804T030106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T030106Z UID:10006786-1603823400-1603830600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened by The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern\nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nTheodore W Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, particularly Volume 2\, subtitled The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America\, has been widely recognized by activists and scholars alike as a seminal work and deeply radical history. Allen was drawn to study of the “white” race by his engagement in the movements of his time; in West Virginia coal mines\, the Congress of Industrial Organization\, the Communist Party\, the Civil Rights/Black Liberation/anti-war and student led movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and his reading of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. Allen had concluded by the mid 1960’s that white supremacism was the central obstacle to progressive movements in American life\, past and present\, yet the “white” race itself remained the most peculiar\, contentious and generally misunderstood “identity\,” blocking all efforts to achieve a just society. Accordingly\, Allen spent the next 40 years in writing and primary research to discern when\, where\, how and why the Plantation Bourgeoisie invented this “white” race in colonial Virginia and Maryland (and how and why it has been maintained since then). Through a careful reading of this text supported by discussion\, a new narrative of our history emerges that offers strategic guidance to the momentous struggles now unfolding. \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for more information. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-2/2020-10-27/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Gender,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/WhiteSupreme2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201020T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201020T203000 DTSTAMP:20200804T030106Z CREATED:20200804T030106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T030106Z UID:10006785-1603218600-1603225800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened by The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern\nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nTheodore W Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, particularly Volume 2\, subtitled The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America\, has been widely recognized by activists and scholars alike as a seminal work and deeply radical history. Allen was drawn to study of the “white” race by his engagement in the movements of his time; in West Virginia coal mines\, the Congress of Industrial Organization\, the Communist Party\, the Civil Rights/Black Liberation/anti-war and student led movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and his reading of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. Allen had concluded by the mid 1960’s that white supremacism was the central obstacle to progressive movements in American life\, past and present\, yet the “white” race itself remained the most peculiar\, contentious and generally misunderstood “identity\,” blocking all efforts to achieve a just society. Accordingly\, Allen spent the next 40 years in writing and primary research to discern when\, where\, how and why the Plantation Bourgeoisie invented this “white” race in colonial Virginia and Maryland (and how and why it has been maintained since then). Through a careful reading of this text supported by discussion\, a new narrative of our history emerges that offers strategic guidance to the momentous struggles now unfolding. \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for more information. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-2/2020-10-20/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Gender,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/WhiteSupreme2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201013T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201013T203000 DTSTAMP:20200804T030106Z CREATED:20200804T030106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T030106Z UID:10006784-1602613800-1602621000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened by The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern\nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nTheodore W Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, particularly Volume 2\, subtitled The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America\, has been widely recognized by activists and scholars alike as a seminal work and deeply radical history. Allen was drawn to study of the “white” race by his engagement in the movements of his time; in West Virginia coal mines\, the Congress of Industrial Organization\, the Communist Party\, the Civil Rights/Black Liberation/anti-war and student led movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and his reading of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. Allen had concluded by the mid 1960’s that white supremacism was the central obstacle to progressive movements in American life\, past and present\, yet the “white” race itself remained the most peculiar\, contentious and generally misunderstood “identity\,” blocking all efforts to achieve a just society. Accordingly\, Allen spent the next 40 years in writing and primary research to discern when\, where\, how and why the Plantation Bourgeoisie invented this “white” race in colonial Virginia and Maryland (and how and why it has been maintained since then). Through a careful reading of this text supported by discussion\, a new narrative of our history emerges that offers strategic guidance to the momentous struggles now unfolding. \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for more information. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-2/2020-10-13/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Gender,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/WhiteSupreme2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20201006T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20201006T203000 DTSTAMP:20200804T030106Z CREATED:20200804T030106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T030106Z UID:10006783-1602009000-1602016200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened by The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern\nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nTheodore W Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, particularly Volume 2\, subtitled The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America\, has been widely recognized by activists and scholars alike as a seminal work and deeply radical history. Allen was drawn to study of the “white” race by his engagement in the movements of his time; in West Virginia coal mines\, the Congress of Industrial Organization\, the Communist Party\, the Civil Rights/Black Liberation/anti-war and student led movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and his reading of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. Allen had concluded by the mid 1960’s that white supremacism was the central obstacle to progressive movements in American life\, past and present\, yet the “white” race itself remained the most peculiar\, contentious and generally misunderstood “identity\,” blocking all efforts to achieve a just society. Accordingly\, Allen spent the next 40 years in writing and primary research to discern when\, where\, how and why the Plantation Bourgeoisie invented this “white” race in colonial Virginia and Maryland (and how and why it has been maintained since then). Through a careful reading of this text supported by discussion\, a new narrative of our history emerges that offers strategic guidance to the momentous struggles now unfolding. \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for more information. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-2/2020-10-06/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Gender,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/WhiteSupreme2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200929T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200929T203000 DTSTAMP:20200804T030106Z CREATED:20200804T030106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200804T030106Z UID:10006782-1601404200-1601411400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race DESCRIPTION:a reading and discussion group convened by The Revolutions Study Group with Sean Ahern\nSince its origin in the class struggles of colonial Virginia and Maryland\, the “white race\,” the most peculiar aspect of the “Peculiar Institution\,” has remained the most contentious and misunderstood identity in American life. \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W. Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy. \nTheodore W Allen’s The Invention of the White Race\, particularly Volume 2\, subtitled The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America\, has been widely recognized by activists and scholars alike as a seminal work and deeply radical history. Allen was drawn to study of the “white” race by his engagement in the movements of his time; in West Virginia coal mines\, the Congress of Industrial Organization\, the Communist Party\, the Civil Rights/Black Liberation/anti-war and student led movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and his reading of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. Allen had concluded by the mid 1960’s that white supremacism was the central obstacle to progressive movements in American life\, past and present\, yet the “white” race itself remained the most peculiar\, contentious and generally misunderstood “identity\,” blocking all efforts to achieve a just society. Accordingly\, Allen spent the next 40 years in writing and primary research to discern when\, where\, how and why the Plantation Bourgeoisie invented this “white” race in colonial Virginia and Maryland (and how and why it has been maintained since then). Through a careful reading of this text supported by discussion\, a new narrative of our history emerges that offers strategic guidance to the momentous struggles now unfolding. \nAllen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans\,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for more information. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/invention-of-the-white-race-2/2020-09-29/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Gender,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/WhiteSupreme2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190624T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190624T210000 DTSTAMP:20190610T142846Z CREATED:20190423T040443Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190610T142846Z UID:10006045-1561402800-1561410000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Racial Boundaries: The Origin and Consequences of the Color Line in the USA DESCRIPTION:4-week reading and discussion group\nThe Revolutions Study Group\nThis group is for for anyone who wants to better understand why White and Black retain their significance in U.S. society for so many years after the abolition of slavery. W.E.B. DuBois’ groundbreaking Black Reconstruction\, and the recent PBS documentary on the same subject are both useful for these discussions. However\, we are now taking on two readings which are keys to unlocking the power of the color line in shaping the political economy our world and in shaping the lives of African Americans. Theodore Allen’s pamphlet “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race\,” from 1975\, explores why and how skin color became the basis of a rigid caste system in the U.S. DuBois’ The Souls of Black Folk is his first important book\, takes readers into the world of racial caste as uniquely experienced by African Americans. \nOur four week reading sources will be: Theodore W. Allen\, “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race\,” first published 1975\, 34 pages\, available as printed pamphlet and a downloadable PDF (http://readsettlers.org/settlers-data/ii/02_THEODOREWALLEN_ClassStruggleAndTheOriginsOfSlavery_Somerville1976_p34.pdf)\, and W.E.B Du Bois\, The Souls of Black Folk\, 1903\, available in all formats including free e-book\, 189 pages\, in the 1989 Bantam paperback\, available in libraries \nAdmission is sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/racial-boundaries-the-origin-and-consequences-of-the-color-line-in-the-usa/2019-06-24/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Rex_theatre.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190617T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190617T210000 DTSTAMP:20190610T142846Z CREATED:20190423T040443Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190610T142846Z UID:10006044-1560798000-1560805200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Racial Boundaries: The Origin and Consequences of the Color Line in the USA DESCRIPTION:4-week reading and discussion group\nThe Revolutions Study Group\nThis group is for for anyone who wants to better understand why White and Black retain their significance in U.S. society for so many years after the abolition of slavery. W.E.B. DuBois’ groundbreaking Black Reconstruction\, and the recent PBS documentary on the same subject are both useful for these discussions. However\, we are now taking on two readings which are keys to unlocking the power of the color line in shaping the political economy our world and in shaping the lives of African Americans. Theodore Allen’s pamphlet “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race\,” from 1975\, explores why and how skin color became the basis of a rigid caste system in the U.S. DuBois’ The Souls of Black Folk is his first important book\, takes readers into the world of racial caste as uniquely experienced by African Americans. \nOur four week reading sources will be: Theodore W. Allen\, “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race\,” first published 1975\, 34 pages\, available as printed pamphlet and a downloadable PDF (http://readsettlers.org/settlers-data/ii/02_THEODOREWALLEN_ClassStruggleAndTheOriginsOfSlavery_Somerville1976_p34.pdf)\, and W.E.B Du Bois\, The Souls of Black Folk\, 1903\, available in all formats including free e-book\, 189 pages\, in the 1989 Bantam paperback\, available in libraries \nAdmission is sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/racial-boundaries-the-origin-and-consequences-of-the-color-line-in-the-usa/2019-06-17/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Rex_theatre.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190610T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190610T210000 DTSTAMP:20190610T142846Z CREATED:20190423T040443Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190610T142846Z UID:10006043-1560193200-1560200400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Racial Boundaries: The Origin and Consequences of the Color Line in the USA DESCRIPTION:4-week reading and discussion group\nThe Revolutions Study Group\nThis group is for for anyone who wants to better understand why White and Black retain their significance in U.S. society for so many years after the abolition of slavery. W.E.B. DuBois’ groundbreaking Black Reconstruction\, and the recent PBS documentary on the same subject are both useful for these discussions. However\, we are now taking on two readings which are keys to unlocking the power of the color line in shaping the political economy our world and in shaping the lives of African Americans. Theodore Allen’s pamphlet “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race\,” from 1975\, explores why and how skin color became the basis of a rigid caste system in the U.S. DuBois’ The Souls of Black Folk is his first important book\, takes readers into the world of racial caste as uniquely experienced by African Americans. \nOur four week reading sources will be: Theodore W. Allen\, “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race\,” first published 1975\, 34 pages\, available as printed pamphlet and a downloadable PDF (http://readsettlers.org/settlers-data/ii/02_THEODOREWALLEN_ClassStruggleAndTheOriginsOfSlavery_Somerville1976_p34.pdf)\, and W.E.B Du Bois\, The Souls of Black Folk\, 1903\, available in all formats including free e-book\, 189 pages\, in the 1989 Bantam paperback\, available in libraries \nAdmission is sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/racial-boundaries-the-origin-and-consequences-of-the-color-line-in-the-usa/2019-06-10/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Rex_theatre.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190603T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190603T210000 DTSTAMP:20190610T142846Z CREATED:20190423T040443Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190610T142846Z UID:10006042-1559588400-1559595600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Racial Boundaries: The Origin and Consequences of the Color Line in the USA DESCRIPTION:4-week reading and discussion group\nThe Revolutions Study Group\nThis group is for for anyone who wants to better understand why White and Black retain their significance in U.S. society for so many years after the abolition of slavery. W.E.B. DuBois’ groundbreaking Black Reconstruction\, and the recent PBS documentary on the same subject are both useful for these discussions. However\, we are now taking on two readings which are keys to unlocking the power of the color line in shaping the political economy our world and in shaping the lives of African Americans. Theodore Allen’s pamphlet “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race\,” from 1975\, explores why and how skin color became the basis of a rigid caste system in the U.S. DuBois’ The Souls of Black Folk is his first important book\, takes readers into the world of racial caste as uniquely experienced by African Americans. \nOur four week reading sources will be: Theodore W. Allen\, “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race\,” first published 1975\, 34 pages\, available as printed pamphlet and a downloadable PDF (http://readsettlers.org/settlers-data/ii/02_THEODOREWALLEN_ClassStruggleAndTheOriginsOfSlavery_Somerville1976_p34.pdf)\, and W.E.B Du Bois\, The Souls of Black Folk\, 1903\, available in all formats including free e-book\, 189 pages\, in the 1989 Bantam paperback\, available in libraries \nAdmission is sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/racial-boundaries-the-origin-and-consequences-of-the-color-line-in-the-usa/2019-06-03/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Rex_theatre.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181106T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181106T200000 DTSTAMP:20180820T031704Z CREATED:20180820T031704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180820T031704Z UID:10006351-1541527200-1541534400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Class\, Race & Gender DESCRIPTION:Contemporary Capitalism and the Limits of Identity Politics \nSix-week session with Dan Karan \nThe ongoing debate between those arguing for either a class- or identity-based politics has led to a tragic split between forces that ultimately need to come together if each is to realize its goals. But should this even be an “either or” question when considered from the vantage point of trying to build an effective anti-capitalist movement struggling for the liberation of those exploited and oppressed by capital? \nWhat may be surprising to some is that this split is not new and in the U.S. has roots that go back to the nation’s founding if not before. And\, in the 19th century\, while the Civil War is often referred to as the “second American Revolution” it was really during Reconstruction\, the period just after the Civil War\, in which a “self-emancipatory” moment opened as former slaves\, working class whites and women struggled to realize the promise of “life\, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” held out in Declaration of Independence. Yet divisions along class\, race and gender lines sealed Reconstruction’s defeat. Why and how was this potentially revolutionary moment defeated and what should this history teach us about the strategies and tactics that the left needs to employ today? \nTo explore these issues of the intersection of class\, race and gender in the US and the consequences of not being able to overcome the divisions that capitalism reinforces and exploits for its own purposes this class will read David Roediger’s recent book on Reconstruction: Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All. This class will be the first in an ongoing series that explore questions of the relationship between class\, race\, gender and sexuality and how we overcome the divide between those exploited by capitalism and create a genuine anti-capitalist movement of liberation for all. \nDan Karan is a “red diaper baby” born into a communist household (his father worked as an organizer for the Communist Party and both his parents were members for roughly 25 years until leaving in 1956 along with many other comrades in response to Khrushchev’s “On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences” speech about Stalin). Dan’s political activism began at the age of 2 when his parents took him to the 1963 March on Washington. For the last 30 years he has worked for NYC nonprofit housing and community development organizations. He is a proud graduate school dropout who has been studying Marxist theory for more than 4 decades. \nDan Karan is a “red diaper baby” born into a communist household (his father worked as an organizer for the Communist Party and both his parents were members for roughly 25 years until leaving in 1956 along with many other comrades in response to Khrushchev’s “On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences” speech about Stalin). Dan’s political activism began at the age of 2 when his parents took him to the 1963 March on Washington. For the last 30 years he has worked for NYC nonprofit housing and community development organizations. He is a proud graduate school dropout who has been studying Marxist theory for more than 4 decades. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/class-race-gender/2018-11-06/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ClassRaceGenderSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181030T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181030T200000 DTSTAMP:20180820T031704Z CREATED:20180820T031704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180820T031704Z UID:10006350-1540922400-1540929600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Class\, Race & Gender DESCRIPTION:Contemporary Capitalism and the Limits of Identity Politics \nSix-week session with Dan Karan \nThe ongoing debate between those arguing for either a class- or identity-based politics has led to a tragic split between forces that ultimately need to come together if each is to realize its goals. But should this even be an “either or” question when considered from the vantage point of trying to build an effective anti-capitalist movement struggling for the liberation of those exploited and oppressed by capital? \nWhat may be surprising to some is that this split is not new and in the U.S. has roots that go back to the nation’s founding if not before. And\, in the 19th century\, while the Civil War is often referred to as the “second American Revolution” it was really during Reconstruction\, the period just after the Civil War\, in which a “self-emancipatory” moment opened as former slaves\, working class whites and women struggled to realize the promise of “life\, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” held out in Declaration of Independence. Yet divisions along class\, race and gender lines sealed Reconstruction’s defeat. Why and how was this potentially revolutionary moment defeated and what should this history teach us about the strategies and tactics that the left needs to employ today? \nTo explore these issues of the intersection of class\, race and gender in the US and the consequences of not being able to overcome the divisions that capitalism reinforces and exploits for its own purposes this class will read David Roediger’s recent book on Reconstruction: Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All. This class will be the first in an ongoing series that explore questions of the relationship between class\, race\, gender and sexuality and how we overcome the divide between those exploited by capitalism and create a genuine anti-capitalist movement of liberation for all. \nDan Karan is a “red diaper baby” born into a communist household (his father worked as an organizer for the Communist Party and both his parents were members for roughly 25 years until leaving in 1956 along with many other comrades in response to Khrushchev’s “On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences” speech about Stalin). Dan’s political activism began at the age of 2 when his parents took him to the 1963 March on Washington. For the last 30 years he has worked for NYC nonprofit housing and community development organizations. He is a proud graduate school dropout who has been studying Marxist theory for more than 4 decades. \nDan Karan is a “red diaper baby” born into a communist household (his father worked as an organizer for the Communist Party and both his parents were members for roughly 25 years until leaving in 1956 along with many other comrades in response to Khrushchev’s “On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences” speech about Stalin). Dan’s political activism began at the age of 2 when his parents took him to the 1963 March on Washington. For the last 30 years he has worked for NYC nonprofit housing and community development organizations. He is a proud graduate school dropout who has been studying Marxist theory for more than 4 decades. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/class-race-gender/2018-10-30/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ClassRaceGenderSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181023T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181023T200000 DTSTAMP:20180820T031704Z CREATED:20180820T031704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180820T031704Z UID:10006349-1540317600-1540324800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Class\, Race & Gender DESCRIPTION:Contemporary Capitalism and the Limits of Identity Politics \nSix-week session with Dan Karan \nThe ongoing debate between those arguing for either a class- or identity-based politics has led to a tragic split between forces that ultimately need to come together if each is to realize its goals. But should this even be an “either or” question when considered from the vantage point of trying to build an effective anti-capitalist movement struggling for the liberation of those exploited and oppressed by capital? \nWhat may be surprising to some is that this split is not new and in the U.S. has roots that go back to the nation’s founding if not before. And\, in the 19th century\, while the Civil War is often referred to as the “second American Revolution” it was really during Reconstruction\, the period just after the Civil War\, in which a “self-emancipatory” moment opened as former slaves\, working class whites and women struggled to realize the promise of “life\, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” held out in Declaration of Independence. Yet divisions along class\, race and gender lines sealed Reconstruction’s defeat. Why and how was this potentially revolutionary moment defeated and what should this history teach us about the strategies and tactics that the left needs to employ today? \nTo explore these issues of the intersection of class\, race and gender in the US and the consequences of not being able to overcome the divisions that capitalism reinforces and exploits for its own purposes this class will read David Roediger’s recent book on Reconstruction: Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All. This class will be the first in an ongoing series that explore questions of the relationship between class\, race\, gender and sexuality and how we overcome the divide between those exploited by capitalism and create a genuine anti-capitalist movement of liberation for all. \nDan Karan is a “red diaper baby” born into a communist household (his father worked as an organizer for the Communist Party and both his parents were members for roughly 25 years until leaving in 1956 along with many other comrades in response to Khrushchev’s “On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences” speech about Stalin). Dan’s political activism began at the age of 2 when his parents took him to the 1963 March on Washington. For the last 30 years he has worked for NYC nonprofit housing and community development organizations. He is a proud graduate school dropout who has been studying Marxist theory for more than 4 decades. \nDan Karan is a “red diaper baby” born into a communist household (his father worked as an organizer for the Communist Party and both his parents were members for roughly 25 years until leaving in 1956 along with many other comrades in response to Khrushchev’s “On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences” speech about Stalin). Dan’s political activism began at the age of 2 when his parents took him to the 1963 March on Washington. For the last 30 years he has worked for NYC nonprofit housing and community development organizations. He is a proud graduate school dropout who has been studying Marxist theory for more than 4 decades. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/class-race-gender/2018-10-23/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ClassRaceGenderSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181016T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181016T200000 DTSTAMP:20180820T031704Z CREATED:20180820T031704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180820T031704Z UID:10006348-1539712800-1539720000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Class\, Race & Gender DESCRIPTION:Contemporary Capitalism and the Limits of Identity Politics \nSix-week session with Dan Karan \nThe ongoing debate between those arguing for either a class- or identity-based politics has led to a tragic split between forces that ultimately need to come together if each is to realize its goals. But should this even be an “either or” question when considered from the vantage point of trying to build an effective anti-capitalist movement struggling for the liberation of those exploited and oppressed by capital? \nWhat may be surprising to some is that this split is not new and in the U.S. has roots that go back to the nation’s founding if not before. And\, in the 19th century\, while the Civil War is often referred to as the “second American Revolution” it was really during Reconstruction\, the period just after the Civil War\, in which a “self-emancipatory” moment opened as former slaves\, working class whites and women struggled to realize the promise of “life\, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” held out in Declaration of Independence. Yet divisions along class\, race and gender lines sealed Reconstruction’s defeat. Why and how was this potentially revolutionary moment defeated and what should this history teach us about the strategies and tactics that the left needs to employ today? \nTo explore these issues of the intersection of class\, race and gender in the US and the consequences of not being able to overcome the divisions that capitalism reinforces and exploits for its own purposes this class will read David Roediger’s recent book on Reconstruction: Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All. This class will be the first in an ongoing series that explore questions of the relationship between class\, race\, gender and sexuality and how we overcome the divide between those exploited by capitalism and create a genuine anti-capitalist movement of liberation for all. \nDan Karan is a “red diaper baby” born into a communist household (his father worked as an organizer for the Communist Party and both his parents were members for roughly 25 years until leaving in 1956 along with many other comrades in response to Khrushchev’s “On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences” speech about Stalin). Dan’s political activism began at the age of 2 when his parents took him to the 1963 March on Washington. For the last 30 years he has worked for NYC nonprofit housing and community development organizations. He is a proud graduate school dropout who has been studying Marxist theory for more than 4 decades. \nDan Karan is a “red diaper baby” born into a communist household (his father worked as an organizer for the Communist Party and both his parents were members for roughly 25 years until leaving in 1956 along with many other comrades in response to Khrushchev’s “On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences” speech about Stalin). Dan’s political activism began at the age of 2 when his parents took him to the 1963 March on Washington. For the last 30 years he has worked for NYC nonprofit housing and community development organizations. He is a proud graduate school dropout who has been studying Marxist theory for more than 4 decades. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/class-race-gender/2018-10-16/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ClassRaceGenderSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181009T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181009T200000 DTSTAMP:20180820T031704Z CREATED:20180820T031704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180820T031704Z UID:10006347-1539108000-1539115200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Class\, Race & Gender DESCRIPTION:Contemporary Capitalism and the Limits of Identity Politics \nSix-week session with Dan Karan \nThe ongoing debate between those arguing for either a class- or identity-based politics has led to a tragic split between forces that ultimately need to come together if each is to realize its goals. But should this even be an “either or” question when considered from the vantage point of trying to build an effective anti-capitalist movement struggling for the liberation of those exploited and oppressed by capital? \nWhat may be surprising to some is that this split is not new and in the U.S. has roots that go back to the nation’s founding if not before. And\, in the 19th century\, while the Civil War is often referred to as the “second American Revolution” it was really during Reconstruction\, the period just after the Civil War\, in which a “self-emancipatory” moment opened as former slaves\, working class whites and women struggled to realize the promise of “life\, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” held out in Declaration of Independence. Yet divisions along class\, race and gender lines sealed Reconstruction’s defeat. Why and how was this potentially revolutionary moment defeated and what should this history teach us about the strategies and tactics that the left needs to employ today? \nTo explore these issues of the intersection of class\, race and gender in the US and the consequences of not being able to overcome the divisions that capitalism reinforces and exploits for its own purposes this class will read David Roediger’s recent book on Reconstruction: Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All. This class will be the first in an ongoing series that explore questions of the relationship between class\, race\, gender and sexuality and how we overcome the divide between those exploited by capitalism and create a genuine anti-capitalist movement of liberation for all. \nDan Karan is a “red diaper baby” born into a communist household (his father worked as an organizer for the Communist Party and both his parents were members for roughly 25 years until leaving in 1956 along with many other comrades in response to Khrushchev’s “On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences” speech about Stalin). Dan’s political activism began at the age of 2 when his parents took him to the 1963 March on Washington. For the last 30 years he has worked for NYC nonprofit housing and community development organizations. He is a proud graduate school dropout who has been studying Marxist theory for more than 4 decades. \nDan Karan is a “red diaper baby” born into a communist household (his father worked as an organizer for the Communist Party and both his parents were members for roughly 25 years until leaving in 1956 along with many other comrades in response to Khrushchev’s “On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences” speech about Stalin). Dan’s political activism began at the age of 2 when his parents took him to the 1963 March on Washington. For the last 30 years he has worked for NYC nonprofit housing and community development organizations. He is a proud graduate school dropout who has been studying Marxist theory for more than 4 decades. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/class-race-gender/2018-10-09/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ClassRaceGenderSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181002T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181002T200000 DTSTAMP:20180820T031704Z CREATED:20180820T031704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180820T031704Z UID:10006346-1538503200-1538510400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Class\, Race & Gender DESCRIPTION:Contemporary Capitalism and the Limits of Identity Politics \nSix-week session with Dan Karan \nThe ongoing debate between those arguing for either a class- or identity-based politics has led to a tragic split between forces that ultimately need to come together if each is to realize its goals. But should this even be an “either or” question when considered from the vantage point of trying to build an effective anti-capitalist movement struggling for the liberation of those exploited and oppressed by capital? \nWhat may be surprising to some is that this split is not new and in the U.S. has roots that go back to the nation’s founding if not before. And\, in the 19th century\, while the Civil War is often referred to as the “second American Revolution” it was really during Reconstruction\, the period just after the Civil War\, in which a “self-emancipatory” moment opened as former slaves\, working class whites and women struggled to realize the promise of “life\, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” held out in Declaration of Independence. Yet divisions along class\, race and gender lines sealed Reconstruction’s defeat. Why and how was this potentially revolutionary moment defeated and what should this history teach us about the strategies and tactics that the left needs to employ today? \nTo explore these issues of the intersection of class\, race and gender in the US and the consequences of not being able to overcome the divisions that capitalism reinforces and exploits for its own purposes this class will read David Roediger’s recent book on Reconstruction: Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All. This class will be the first in an ongoing series that explore questions of the relationship between class\, race\, gender and sexuality and how we overcome the divide between those exploited by capitalism and create a genuine anti-capitalist movement of liberation for all. \nDan Karan is a “red diaper baby” born into a communist household (his father worked as an organizer for the Communist Party and both his parents were members for roughly 25 years until leaving in 1956 along with many other comrades in response to Khrushchev’s “On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences” speech about Stalin). Dan’s political activism began at the age of 2 when his parents took him to the 1963 March on Washington. For the last 30 years he has worked for NYC nonprofit housing and community development organizations. He is a proud graduate school dropout who has been studying Marxist theory for more than 4 decades. \nDan Karan is a “red diaper baby” born into a communist household (his father worked as an organizer for the Communist Party and both his parents were members for roughly 25 years until leaving in 1956 along with many other comrades in response to Khrushchev’s “On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences” speech about Stalin). Dan’s political activism began at the age of 2 when his parents took him to the 1963 March on Washington. For the last 30 years he has worked for NYC nonprofit housing and community development organizations. He is a proud graduate school dropout who has been studying Marxist theory for more than 4 decades. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/class-race-gender/2018-10-02/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ClassRaceGenderSite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180906T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180906T203000 DTSTAMP:20180818T064739Z CREATED:20180818T064739Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180818T064739Z UID:10006335-1536258600-1536265800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marx at 200: Capital\, Class and More DESCRIPTION:A talk and discussion with Kevin B. Anderson \nAt Marx’s 200th anniversary\, it is clear that the emancipation of labor from capitalist alienation and exploitation is a task that still confronts us. Marx’s concept of the worker is not limited to European white males\, but includes Irish and Black super-exploited and therefore doubly revolutionary workers\, as well as women of all races and nations. But his research and his concept of revolution go further\, incorporating a wide range of agrarian noncapitalist societies of his time\, from India to Russia and from Algeria to Indigenous peoples of the Americas\, often emphasizing their gender relations. In his last\, still partially unpublished writings\, he turns his gaze eastward and southward. In these regions outside Western Europe\, he finds important revolutionary possibilities among peasants and their ancient communistic social structures\, even as these are being undermined by their formal subsumption under the rule of capital. In his last published text\, he envisions an alliance between these non-working-class strata and the Western European working class. \nKevin B. Anderson is a Professor of Sociology\, Political Science\, and Feminist Studies at University of California\, Santa Barbara. He has worked in social and political theory\, especially Marx\, Hegel\, Marxist humanism\, the Frankfurt School\, Foucault\, and the Orientalism debate. Among his most recent books are Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (with Janet Afary\, 2005) and Marx at the Margins: On Ethnicity\, Nationalism\, and Non-Western Societies (2010/2016)\, both published by University of Chicago Press. He is active in Los Angeles in the International Marxist-Humanist Organization and in the Coalition for Peace\, Revolution\, and Social Justice. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-at-200-capital-class-and-more/ LOCATION:United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Marx200AndersonSite-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20150204T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20150204T193000 DTSTAMP:20150213T054756Z CREATED:20150113T171118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150213T054756Z UID:10003703-1423071000-1423078200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Black Reconstruction in America: W.E.B. DuBois DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][product_page id=”581″][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/black-reconstruction-in-america-w-e-b-dubois/2015-02-04/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20150202T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20150202T193000 DTSTAMP:20150213T060000Z CREATED:20150113T165537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150213T060000Z UID:10003702-1422898200-1422905400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Black Literature & Revolutionary Consciousness DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][product_page id=”565″][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/black-literature-revolutionary-consciousness/2015-02-02/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Multi-session Classes ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2015-01-13-at-10.49.55-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20141217T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20141217T213000 DTSTAMP:20141025T221145Z CREATED:20141025T221145Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141025T221145Z UID:10003691-1418844600-1418851800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of The White Race DESCRIPTION:Theodore W. Allen (1919-2005) was an independent\, anti-white supremacist working class scholar. A former coal miner\, factory worker\, teacher\, postal mailhandler\, and Brooklyn Public Library worker\, Allen pioneered “white skin privilege” analysis in 1965\, co-authored White Blindspot in 1967\, wrote the ground-breaking Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race in 1975 (Center for Study of Working Class Life\, SUNY Stony Brook)\, and authored the two-volume classic The Invention of the White Race. (1994\, 1997; Verso Books\, 2012). \nJEFFREY B. PERRY edited A Hubert Harrison Reader and authored Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism\, 1883-1918. Perry also contributed new front and back matter to the new edition of Allen’s The Invention of the White Race and he authored “The Developing Conjuncture and Some Insights From Hubert Harrison and Theodore W. Allen on the Centrality of the Fight Against White Supremacy”. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/theodore-w-allens-the-invention-of-the-white-race/ LOCATION:United States CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Perry_Invention_white_race.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20141119T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20141119T213000 DTSTAMP:20141025T220615Z CREATED:20141025T220615Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141025T220615Z UID:10003689-1416425400-1416432600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism\, 1883-1918 DESCRIPTION:Hubert Harrison\, (1883-1927) was a brilliant writer\, orator\, educator\, critic\, and political activist\, who was described by the historian Joel A. Rogers as “the foremost Afro-American intellect of his time” and by A. Philip Randolph as “the father of Harlem Radicalism.” Harrison played unique\, signal roles in the largest class radical movement (socialism) and the largest race radical movement (the New Negro/Garvey) movement of his era. He was the foremost Black organizer\, agitator\, and theoretician of the Socialist Party of New York\, the founder of the “New Negro” movement\, the editor of the “Negro World\,” and the principal radical influence on the Garvey movement. A self-described\, “radical internationalist\,” he was also a highly praised journalist and critic (reportedly the first regular Black book reviewer)\, a postal labor unionist\, a union organizer (with both the Hotel Workers and the Pullman Porters)\, an IWW supporter\, a speaker at the 1913 Paterson strike\, a freethinker and early proponent of birth control\, a supporter of Black writers and artists\, a leading community-based public intellectual\, and a bibliophile who helped transform the 135th Street Public Library into an international center for research in Black culture (known today as the world-famous Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture). \nJEFFREY B. PERRY edited A Hubert Harrison Reader and authored Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism\, 1883-1918. Perry also contributed new front and back matter to the new edition of Allen’s The Invention of the White Race and he authored “The Developing Conjuncture and Some Insights From Hubert Harrison and Theodore W. Allen on the Centrality of the Fight Against White Supremacy”. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hubert-harrison-the-voice-of-harlem-radicalism-1883-1918/ CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/PerryJeffrey_cover_April_2_2008.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR