The Ph.D. Program in History

at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

History Program Events

11/3 – ‘The Only Thing That Hasn’t Changed Regarding Black Politics Since 1965 Is How We Think About it’: Why?

Adolph Reed Jr.  delivers the Second Annual Judith S. Stein Lecture in Political Economy on Friday, November 3rd at 5:30pm in the William P. Kelly Skylight Conference Room (9th Floor) .

The event will take place in person and via zoom 

 To RSVP for an in person seat, please write to history@gc.cuny.edu. (Note that the event may be at capacity soon)

To register for the Zoom link, go to https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VywMio7FR0y-rUUP2QWBWQ. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Adolph Reed Jr. is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.  His most recent book is The South: Jim Crow and its Afterlives (Verso 2022), and he is co-author with Walter Benn Michaels of No Politics but Class Politics (Eris 2023). He has been a columnist in The Progressive, The Village Voice, and The New Republic and has written frequently in The Nation, Dissent, among many others. He is an editorial board member of nonsite.org, and is on the boards of Food and Water Action and the Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute (DJDI) and is a regular on DJDI’s Class Matters podcast.

Judith Stein (1940-2017) was Distinguished Professor of History, City College of New York and The Graduate Center, CUNY.  Her publications include The World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class in Modern Society (1986), Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism (1998), and Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies (2011).