The Racial and Political Legacy of the New Deal w/ Richard Walker

Joining us this week is Richard Walker, professor emeritus at UC-Berkeley and director of the Living New Deal. We discuss the legacy of the New Deal and address whether or not it can be said to have caused segregation. Did African Americans benefit from these policies? Does the allegedly racist nature of the New Deal and the way it is said to have excluded black workers mean that Bernie Sanders's invocation of it as a model for democratic socialism is flawed?

Tune in and find out.

Articles mentioned:

-Richard Walker, "The New Deal Didn't Create Segregation," https://jacobinmag.com/2019/06/the-color-of-law-richard-rothstein-review

-Richard Rothstein, "How the Federal Government Deepened Segregation," https://jacobinmag.com/2019/06/rothstein-segregation-color-of-law-new-deal

-Larry DeWitt, "The Decision to Exclude Agricultural and Domestic Workers from the 1935 Social Security Act," https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v70n4/v70n4p49.html

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