Prep
- Matthew Desmond, ‘In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation’, Times Sunday Magazine (14 August 2019). Slavery helped turn America into a financial colossus. And our economy is still shaped by management practices invented by enslavers and overseers.
- Audio: ‘The Economy That Slavery Built’, 1619 podcast (30 August 2019)
- Attendance
- Q&A
- Reading Notes for Next Time
For Next Time
- Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 5 (‘Housing’): ‘Racial Struggles over Residence in Twentieth-Century America’; ‘Racial Segregation’; ‘The City’; ‘The Suburbs’; ‘Rural America’; ‘Towards an Integrated America’
