Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore

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Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at CUNY Graduate Center. A co-founder of California Prison Moratorium Project and Critical Resistance, she is author of the prize-winning book Golden Gulag: Prison, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California.

In this impressive clip of this towering intellectual & visionary, Ruth unpacks and explores the intersection of race and capitalism.