Dear RSF:
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Please join us next Wednesday, May 15 at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Visiting Guest Destin Jenkins entitled \u201cA History of Debt in America and the Search for a Usable Past.\u201d
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Jenkins is an Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. He holds a PhD from Stanford in History and a BA in in Modern US History from Columbia University. As a historian of capitalism and democracy in post-Reconstruction America, he is broadly concerned with the causes and consequences of inequality, its relationship to various markets, and when, how, and why African Americans organized collectively to challenge systems of domination.\u00a0
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His first book, The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City (University of Chicago Press, 2021), won the Ellis W. Hawley Prize and James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians (2022), the 2022 Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book in North American Urban History, and was a finalist for the 2022 best new book in African American History and Culture from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
He is also co-editor of Histories of Racial Capitalism (Columbia University Press, 2021), which brings together scholars across a range of disciplines to revisit the persistent question of the relationship between race and capitalism.
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