In this episode, Darrick Hamilton, the Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University, joins Michael Dawson to discuss neoliberal economics, inequality, an economic bill of rights, and reparations.

Links:

The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity

Readings:

Dawson, Michael and Megan Francis, “Black Politics and the Neoliberal Racial Order”

Economic Policy Institute, “The Productivity-Pay Gap”

Hamilton, Darrick in Democracy Journal, “Neoliberalism and Race”

Johnson, Walter, River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom

Katznelson, Ira, When Affirmation Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America