STAFF PICKS: Cedric Johnson / Race, Class, and the Policing of Inequality

28/04/2022 1h 21min
STAFF PICKS: Cedric Johnson / Race, Class, and the Policing of Inequality

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Political scientist Cedric Johnson examines the collisions of race, class, policing and activism in the wake of George Floyd's murder, and explains why the Democratic Party and capital threaten to co-opt and re-direct the protest movement's energy unless it commits to a politics of redistribution and power for the working class.

https://nonsite.org/the-triumph-of-black-lives-matter-and-neoliberal-redemption/

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