Join the School of Urban Studies for our Annual Lecture Series. Special guest speaker Dr. Prentiss Dantzler of the University of Toronto presents 'Racial Capitalism and the (Re)Making of Urban Spaces'

Urban scholars have long argued that capitalism and racism have a symbolic relationship realized in the built environment. Yet, few have extended their analysis beyond lower levels of scale to a broader political economy of place. In describing the urban political economy, Dr. Dantzler employs racial capitalism as a theoretical intervention to explore the particular plight of African Americans and their quest to claim property and land for themselves. By situating racism and capitalism as interlocking systems of dispossession and displacement, the "housing question' is brought into perspective.