Manu Karuka is the author of Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (University of California Press, 2019). He is a co-editor of 1804 Books, and he teaches at Barnard College.
In Imperialism, Lenin provided a collective analysis for collective liberation. How can we better understand imperialism today, in order to build effective anti-imperial strategy for today’s world?
In Imperialism, Lenin provided a collective analysis for collective liberation. How can we better understand imperialism today, in order to build effective anti-imperial strategy for today’s world?
Manu Karuka's new book Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (University of California Press, 2019) boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path
This four session seminar explores the political economy of racism with Professor Manu Karuka. We will work to denaturalize racism as something that needs to be explained, rather than accepted as a facet of social life. We will analyze race as a process and relationship internal to the capital relation itself.
