Charisse Burden-Stelly

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.

Settle Your Quarrels

Above all, we need the courage of radical commitment.

  • Charisse Burden-Stelly

How Black Communist Women Remade Class Struggle

And what today’s organizers can learn from them.

  • Charisse Burden-Stelly
  • Jodi Dean

Caste Does Not Explain Race

The celebration of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste reflects the continued priority of elite preferences over the needs and struggles of ordinary people.

  • Charisse Burden-Stelly
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