Events at Stanford
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16:56 Nov 10, 2021
Date: Friday, November 19, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: https://stanford.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvd-GurDoiE9ShGyiyX-lm2oi8aYo5HHwK FSI'S REDI Task Force invites you to the premiere event in our Critical Conversations series, "The Afterlife of Colonialism: The origins of racial inequality and segregation in the modern world". Capitalism and colonialism are often invoked in discussions in the social sciences and the humanities as the profound causes of racism, discrimination, human rights abuses, and the subaltern status of minority (and sometimes majority) groups in contemporary societies. These concepts are often a useful more as a shorthand to describe deep historical processes. This panel seeks to elaborate on the specific mechanisms and accumulated social, political and economic events of colonialism that lead to particular outcomes of poverty, inequality or violence today. Comparative perspectives from history, political science and economics, from various regions of the world may advance our understandi...