Ep. 10: Charisse Burden-Stelly on Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the U.S.

In this episode I am joined by Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly aka Dr. CBS. We discuss her recently published book, Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States (University of Chicago Press, 2023).
Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University and a 2023-2024 Visiting Scholar at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. She is the author of Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States, the co-author of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History, and the co-editor of Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writings and of Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State. Dr. Burden-Stelly has published in peer-reviewed journals including Small Axe, Souls, Du Bois Review, Socialism & Democracy, International Journal of Africana Studies, and CLR James Journal and in popular publications like Monthly Review, Boston Review, Essence magazine, The Nation, Teen Vogue, Black Perspectives, and Black Agenda Report. She is a member of the Black Alliance for Peace.
Works by Dr. CBS:
Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/...
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History
(co-authored with Gerald Horne)
www.bloomsbury.com/us/web-du-...
Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing
(co-edited with Jodi Dean)
www.versobooks.com/products/2...
Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State
(co-edited with Percy C. Hintzen and Aaron Kamugisha)
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/...
Intro Music: "Naima" by John Coltrane
Outro Music: "For Love" by Jason Moran
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[@glennisholcomb592]

I am so happy to find this podcast, this was one of the things that I was talking about when our government decided that it wanted to be anti-communist it was primarily anti-black

[@DMGrass-gb9kg]

What an awesome lady!

[@mobybongo]

Thank you De Facto (Anthony) for all these excellent posts! I always learn so much from them and this particular episode with Dr. CBS was deeply educational! - I'm looking forward to checking out "Black Scare/Red Scare" and "Organize, Fight, Win ..." Keep up the great work!

[@defactopodcastwithanthonyb576]

Thank you very much! I'm so happy to hear this! And thank you for engaging with my work, it means a lot! 🙏 ✊️ ❤️

[@Dorian_sapiens]

This was brilliant. I'm very sorry I didn't see it when it was new. Also, I didn't realize the folding in of "t3rrorism" with "c0mmunism" went all the way back to the Soviet involvement in Afghanistan. I thought that trick only came about after the USSR was overthrown, when the US State Department et al. suddenly needed a new boogieman. I ALWAYS learn something (usually, several things) from Dr. CBS.