The Dig: Next Shift w/ Gabriel Winant
Jacobin Radio
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The Welfare Rights Movement - What Kind of Critique Are Black Women Making of the Welfare State?
You write about the welfare rights movement. The spaces of community constructed and tended by black women through hard times became seed beds for resistance that defied assumptions of the liberal order. What sort of critique were organized black women making of the new deal state? And to what extent did they point to another possible order beyond it? Yes, i think this is a really important question. Even if it's difficult to imagine a world where theelfare rights movement like sweeps the nation and takes over the apparatus of political power. Because it a the struggle that black activist women in that movement led did imagine a kind of genuinely different alternative.
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