Historian and In Theory editor Disha Karnad Jani interviews Charisse Burden-Stelly about her new book, Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States (University of Chicago Press, 2023). The book explores how related panics about Black political power and communism in the early 20th century drove the US government’s attempts at repression of anti-capitalist and anti-racist movements.
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