Zachary Levenson

May 22, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Marcel Paret |Zachary Levenson

Introduction Against the backdrop of an erupting Black Lives Matter movement in the mid-2010s and early 2020s, “racial capitalism” suddenly became the watchword of the day. Not only did activists begin to emphasise connections between racist policing and capitalist reproduction (Issar 2021; M4BL 2016; Ransby 2018), but the term also enjoyed a revival in the academy (Levenson and Paret 2023). In this moment, two figures loom especially large: Cedric J. Robinson and Stuart Hall.

May 11, 2024 | routledge.com | Zachary Levenson |Marcel Paret

This book documents the emergence and development of the theory of racial capitalism in apartheid South Africa. It interrogates the specificity of this theory in the South African context and draws lessons for its global applicability. Racism and capitalism have a long history of entanglement. Nowhere is this more evident than in South Africa, where colonial and apartheid regimes used explicit systems of racial hierarchy to shore up profit.

Sep 12, 2023 | truthout.org | Alexandra Martinez |Chris Walker |Zachary Levenson |Erin Reed

Parents across Florida are figuring out how to cope with the state’s ongoing public education censorship. Almost a month into the new school year, parents say they are organizing to combat the governor-mandated censorship while communicating with their children’s teachers to make sure conservative materials like PragerU stay out of the classroom. At the Miami-Dade district school board meeting on Sept.

Sep 7, 2023 | truthout.org | Chris Walker |Kwolanne Felix |Zachary Levenson |Chabeli Carrazana

The Florida Education Board of Governors is set to vote on whether to approve a new college entrance exam that critics contend places too much emphasis on Christian and Western thought. The Classic Learning Test (CLT), which was created in 2015, is accepted as an exam entrance option by over 200 colleges and universities across the country, most of which are Christian.

Aug 29, 2023 | truthout.org | Eleanor Bader |Zachary Levenson |Sharon Zhang

Conventional wisdom tells us that every crisis contains an opportunity, and the right wing in the United States is wasting no time in proving this true. Take public schooling. “The uncertain period following pandemic destruction [is] an ideal moment to reimagine U.S. education,” Frederick M. Hess, senior fellow and director of education policy at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, wrote in his recently released book, The Great School Rethink.