Debt and Race in American Capitalism
<p>For this podcast, I asked questions to Pamela Brown about the role of debt in American society and the way its very function has been historically affecting, and continues to affect the African-American community in particular. Debt should normally be understood as a mutually beneficial contract but has been transformed into yet another capitalist apparatus of profit-making. It functions through an ideology of promise that ensures the conformity of life paths and the perpetuation in the future of the roles in the present society. Once the mechanisms that intertwines debt and race have been exposed, Pamela describes the work she has been contributing at Occupy Wall Street, as well as the issues that emerged from the racial issues that were still operating within the movement.</p>
Host: Léopold Lambert
Guests: Pamela Brown
Part of: The Funambulist Podcast