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. By situating racism and capitalism as interlocking systems of dispossession and displacement, the “housing question” is brought into perspective as a way to understand broader calls for reparative justice.

Prentiss Dantzler, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto discusses the (re)production of the U.S. 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.

Sponsored by the Dean of Faculty Office, Department of Sociology, and Africana Studies Program.