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Charisse Burden-Stelly is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. Her latest book is Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States. She is also coauthor, with Gerald Horne, of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Life in American History and coeditor, with Jodi Dean, of Organize, Fight, Win, Black Communist Women’s Political Writing.
And what today’s organizers can learn from them.
The celebration of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste reflects the continued priority of elite preferences over the needs and struggles of ordinary people.
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