Upcoming Meetings

• Linda Kintz, "God’s Intentions for the Multinational Corporation," in Between Jesus and the Market: The Emotions That Matter in Right-Wing America (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997), 217-236. [PDF]
• William Connolly, "The Evangelical-Capitalist Resonance Machine," in Capitalism and Christianity, American Style (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008), 39-67. [PDF]

Previous Meetings

• Noel Ignatiev, "The Worldview of C.L.R. James" in A New Notion (Oakland: PM Press, 2010)
• C.L.R. James, "Every Cook Can Govern," in A New Notion (Oakland: PM Press, 2010)

• Elizabeth Leeds, "Cocaine and Parallel Polities in the Brazilian Urban Periphery: Constraints on Local-Level Democratization," Latin American Research Review, Vol. 31, No. 3 (1996): 47-83

• André Gorz, "The Latest Forms of Work," in Reclaiming Work: Beyond the Wage-Based Society (Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 1999).
• Howard Gardner, "What Is Good Work?" Tanner Lecture on Human Values, University of Utah, April 2008.

• Douglas R. Egerton, "Markets without a Market Revolution: Southern Planters and Capitalism", Journal of the Early Republic 16 (Summer 1996): 207-21.
• Stephanie McCurry, "The Two Faces of Republicanism: Gender and Proslavery Politics in Antebellum South Carolina", Journal of American History, 78 (March 1992): 1245-64.
• Robert Olwell, "Loose, Idle and Disorderly: Slave Women in the Eighteenth-Century Charleston Marketplace" in More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas, ed. David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine, (Indiana University Press, 1996), 97-110.

• J.K. Gibson-Graham, "Class and the politics of Identity" in The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006), 46-72.
• J.K. Gibson-Graham, "Querying Globalization", ibid., pp. 120-148" [PDF]
• Warren Montag, "Necro-Economics: Adam Smith and Death in the Life of the Universal," Radical Philosophy, V134, 1995, 7-18.
• Jack Amariglio and David Ruccio, "Postmodernism, Marxism, and the Critique of Modern Economic Thought," Rethinking Marxism, V7, I3, 1994, 7-34.

• Tim Wise, excerpts from Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat From Racial Equity (City Lights, 2010)
• Thomas M. Shapiro, introduction to The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality (Cambridge, 2004)
• Thomas M. Shapiro, chapter 2 from The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality (Cambridge, 2004)
• Thomas M. Shapiro, chapter 3 from The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality (Cambridge, 2004)

• Nancy MacLean, "Southern Dominance in Borrowed Language: The Regional Origins of American Neoliberalism" (Ch. 2 in Jane Collins, Micaela di Leonardo, and Brett Williams, eds. New Landscapes of Inequality: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of Democracy in America, 2008)
• James Ferguson, "De-moralizing Economies: African Socialism, Scientific Capitalism, and the Moral Politics of Structural Adjustment" (Ch. 3 from Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order, 2006)
• Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth, "The Paradox of Symbolic Imperialism: The Southern Cone as an Explosive Laboratory of Modernity" (Ch. 7 from The Internationalization of Palace Wars: Lawyers, Economists, and the Contest to Transform Latin American States, 2002)

• Karen Ho, Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street.

• Cecília Loreto Mariz, "Cultural Strategies for Coping with Poverty," from Coping with Poverty (1994)
• Elizabeth Brusco, "Columbian Evangelicalism from the Household Out," from The Reformation of Machismo (1995)
• Optional Reading: R. Andrew Chesnut, "Pragmatic Consumers and Practical Products" (2003)
• Optional Reference: Reinaldo Roman and Pamela Voekel, "Popular Religion in Latin American Historiography," in The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History, ed. Jose Moya (2010)

• James Axtell and William C. Sturtevant, "The Unkindest Cut, or Who Invented Scalping," William and Mary Quarterly 37 (Jul. 1980): 451-72.
• Lawrence Weiss and David C.Maas, "Primitive Accumulation, Reservations, and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act," in State and Reservation: New Perspectives on Federal Indian Policy, ed. George Pierre Castile and Robert L. Bee (Arizona: 1992)

• Dylan Rodriguez, "Domestic War Zones and the Extremities of Power: Conceptualizing the U.S. Prison Regime," in Forced Passages (Minnesota Press: 2006)
• Christian Parenti, "Big Bucks from the Big House: The Prison Industrial Complex and Beyond," in Lockdown America: Police & Prisons in the Age of Crisis (Verso: 1999)
• Recommended Supplementary Reading:
• Dylan Rodriguez, "Forced Passages: The Routes and Precedents of (Prison) Slavery," in Forced Passages

• Walter Johnson, "The Pedestal and the Veil: Rethinking the Capitalism/Slavery Question" (2004)
• Joshua D. Rothman, "The Hazards of the Flush Times: Gambling, Mob Violence, and the Anxieties of Americas Market Revolution" (2008)
• Edward E. Baptist, "Toxic Debt, Liar Loans, and Securitized Human Beings: The Panic of 1837 and the Fate of Slavery" (2010)

• Excerpt from "Leaner and Meaner," in Steven Greenhouse's The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker
• To accompany the 29 minute film Mine War on Blackberry Creek, which will lead off the meeting.
• Optional: Bob Jessup's "Towards a Schumpeterian Workfare State?" (1993) The theme for this meeting revolves around the demise of the so-called social contract between capital and labor which defined the so-called "Fordist" regime of capitalist accumulation.

• Geoffrey Ingham, "Money," from Capitalism (2008)
• Stephen Mihm, "The Western Bankers," from A Nation of Counterfeiters (2007)
• Reader's choice from "Hard Times," Common Place v.10, n. 3.5 This month’s readings explore the troubled topic of money.

Dr. Stephen Mihm, who is presently researching a book, tentatively entitled The Country’s Currency: A History of the Dollar from the American Revolution to the American Century, will lead a round table discussion on project planning and preparation. The talk will focus on strategies for wading through the clutter left by thousands of past researchers, and will offer graduate students an opportunity to address challenges they face in the early stages of project development. Dr. Mihm's work emphasises the cultural, business, and economic history of the United States, but the discussion will be of value to anyone who shivers at the idea of starting a new project.

• Mike Davis, "Preface" from Late Victorian Holocausts (2001)
• James C. Scott, "Nature and Space" from Seeing Like a State (1998)
• Angus Wright, "Technology and Conflict" from The Death of Ramon Gonzalez (1990, 2005)

August 14, 2010: Killing for Coal
Host: Kathi Nehls
Readings:

• Thomas G. Andrews, Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008)